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ODD MAN OUT.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier.
ODD MAN OUT.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier.
ODD MAN OUT.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Novel of a wounded IRA man. Filmed in 1947 with James Mason, also released as Gang War. Filmed again in 1969 as The Lost Man with Sidney Poitier. Hubin, p. 348.
ALL MEN ARE GHOSTS
London: Williams & Norgate, 1913. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii [viii-x] 1-360 [note: first leaf is a blank], original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Story collection, "...while often identified as a Ghost-Story volume [this] is a continuation of this philosophy, where LPJ provides a rational basis for supernatural occurrences. The sequence "Panhandle and the Ghosts" postulates that humans and Ghosts live in Alternate Worlds, with each perceiving the other as ghosts. In the title story, "All Men Are Ghosts", LPJ uses the frame story of spirits meeting in Heaven to relate an Arabian Fantasy, "The Hole in the Waterskin", as an allegory to demonstrate the likelihood of reincarnation. "The Magic Formula" – later the title story of a revised selection of stories from earlier volumes, The Magic Formula and Other Stories (coll 1927 US) – is a Time Fantasy. LPJ's stories have novelty value for their concepts." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Jacks was a academic and philosopher who incorporated his ideas into his fiction, some of which is metaphysical. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 890. Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968, p. 238. Bleiler (1978), p. 107. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
THE LEGENDS OF SMOKEOVER.
Toronto, London, New York: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., n.d., [1921]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-324, original red cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Inscription from the author on the front free end paper, signed "the author." Satire on life through characters that live in "Smokeover," a modern fictitious city. The citizens of this city value regimentation and discipline. Five characters stories make up the book who ultimately come together and form a league for the redemption of the world (see THE STANDARD, Volume 9, No. 5, January 1923). The fiction of L. P. Jacks, UK philosopher and academic, "is idiosyncratic and often used to convey his philosophical ideas, frequently related to metaphysics" (Clute and Grant). Tuck, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Through 1968, p. 238. Bleiler (1948), p. 160.