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Bleiler was a huge fan of Hope Hodgson, calling his novels "visionary accounts that have no real parallels in English literature". The tale recounts a ship crew's strange & terrifying experience as their reality comes into contact with an alternative, darker mirror world. A superb first edition of this key work in Hope Hodgson's canon, here in the seemingly less common green cloth, as opposed to red (no priority being definitively established). Contemporary ink name to front pastedown, an excellent copy.
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