Item #23183 SPHINX. David Lindsay.

SPHINX.

[New York]: Carroll & Graf, [1988]. Octavo, boards. Second edition, first U. S. edition. The author's third book. "SPHINX (1923) places muted metaphysical images of the same type [as those found in A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920) and THE HAUNTED WOMAN (1922)] in a conventional domestic drama: a hapless young man becomes entangled with two women while trying to perfect a machine to record the deep, unremembered dreams that contain the hidden truth of human existence." - Clute and Grant (editors), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 583. SPHINX "comes closer to traditional science-fiction than anything else Lindsay was to write." - Wolfe, David Lindsay, p. 56. "Most critics have dismissed SPHINX as a failure, but I find it curiously fascinating." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1021. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1344. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 140. Bleiler (1978), p. 124. Reginald 09073. Age tanning to cheap text paper, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (23183). Item #23183

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