Tales from the NIght Land

A splendid collection of Hodgson’s sea tales; more oceanic supernatural goings on than you can shake a marlinspike at. Edited and introduced by Hodgson aficionado Sam Moskowitz and including the first properly published apearance of “The Plans of the Reefing Biplane”, and the first appearances of a number of other Hodgson tales. William Hope Hodgson should be worshipped as a deity, as soon as possible.

It is a great shame, because this copy of arguably Hodgson’s greatest work (alright, it’s not easy train journey reading, and the linguistic liberties would make Tolkien homicidal, but it is astonishing), came from the library of the late Eric Quayle, containing his pencil notations to the front pastedown. Ex libris bookplate of Percival Hinton, antiquarian book and manuscript collector late of Sutton Coldfield (whose collection Mr.Quayle took over) to front pastedown. A solid copy of a rare and marvellous work, highly regarded by many others in the field including the notoriously difficult to impress Mr. H.P.Lovecraft and his cabal. Protected by a tailor made half red leather clamshell box titled in gilt to the spine.