The Glass Harmonica (Signed copy)

A Lexicon of the Fantastical, signed by Barbara Ninde Byfield

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Printing Details

First US edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 26 × 20.5cm, 160pp.

Signed and dedicated by the author to the ffep, "For David Hamilton, special love—Barbara Byfield"

From the dustwrapper, "The Glass Harmonica is no ordinary lexicon. It defies any brief description. Unless one were to call it the Webster of the Weird. But it is so much more than that. For it nimbly describes and defines all the inhabitants of that slightly delirious demimonde of dragons, sorcerers, and white knights that really existed a spell or so ago. When the world still believed in heroes and magic. And we did too. For instance, The Glass Harmonica offers the last word on heralds, hermits, and humbugs. On princesses and apprentices.On crones, thrones, and gnomes. On leeches, trulls, and of course, buried treasure. It distinguishes nicely castles from palaces, witches from warlocks, heretics from apostates. And it gives the facts, as opposed to the rumors, about basilisks, tournaments, and body snatchers."

Condition

Quite a rare title to find signed. The book itself is in very good condition but with a little tanning to the page edges. The dustwrapper is chipped to the edges and a bit tanned to the spine, but has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.