{"id":22577,"date":"2023-09-06T14:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22577"},"modified":"2023-09-06T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T19:10:53","slug":"library-addition-first-edition-of-hope-mirrlees-lud-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22577","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: First Edition of Hope Mirrlees&#8217; Lud-In-The-Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a book I&#8217;ve been looking for quite a long time, even before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fsf\/1999\/cur9907.htm\">Neil Gaiman recommended it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Mirrlees, Hope. <b>Lud-In-The-Mist<\/b>. W. Collins &#038; Sons, 1926. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a couple of abrasion spots on front cover, slight bend and head and heel, and small bookseller sticker to bottom of rear inside cover, otherwise a nice, sharp copy in an immaculate facsimile dust jacket. Bleiler, <b>Checklist<\/b> (1978), page 141. Magill, <b>Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature<\/b>, pages 926-931. Barron, <b>Fantasy Literature<\/b> 3-250 (&#8220;A beautifully written allegory unashamedly celebrating the necessity of enchantment&#8221;). Tymn Zahorsky Boyer, <b>Fantasy Literature<\/b> pages 141-142. Widely considered one of the classic novels of pre-Tolkien fantasy. Bought for $395 plus shipping. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-670x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"688\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-670x1024.png 670w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-768x1174.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist.png 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-DJ.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-DJ-669x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"689\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-DJ-669x1024.png 669w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-DJ-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-DJ-768x1176.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Lud-in-the-Mist-DJ.png 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a book I&#8217;ve been looking for quite a long time, even before Neil Gaiman recommended it. Mirrlees, Hope. Lud-In-The-Mist. W. Collins &#038; Sons, 1926. First edition hardback, a Fine- copy with a couple of abrasion spots on front cover, slight bend and head and heel, and small bookseller sticker to bottom of rear inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":43,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[1973,1983,2670],"class_list":["post-22577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-hope-mirrlees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22577"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22586,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22577\/revisions\/22586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}