Lost Tales 1-3 Box Set Auction

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Handset letterpress printed editions on Hahnemühle paper and handbound using double woven Dubletta cloth on boards. 

Containing rare material, retrieved from their original magazine publications, these stories appear in book form for the first time.  

Also included are 4 previously unpublished stories, rare gems provided by the Dunsany Estate, as well as artwork by Lord Dunsany (frontispiece in Volume 2) and watercolor by Sidney Sime (frontispiece in Volume 3). 

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10 previously uncollected stories from 1909 to 1915 retrieved from their original magazine publications and appearing for the first time in book form by approval of the Dunsany Estate.  Introduction by Michael Swanwick. 

29 pages handset letterpress printed on Hahnemüle paper and hand bound in teal cloth on boards.  Ornate letterpress title inset on front cover, and letterpress spine title.  

Pegana Press 2012

The Heart Of Earth first appeared in The Saturday Review, London,  July 1909.  It was one of the stories we at Pegana Press were privileged to add to our collection of previously uncollected works entitled Lost Tales Volume 1 by Lord Dunsany.

It begins thus.

As the poet walked through the moist, grey town thinking of Faëry and imperious Death, he saw the unthought-of pavement, monotonous, wet, clad with dirt, desolate.  And, thinking of the long time that they had lain there under unheeding feet, unprotected by soil or grass against the will of the rain, he, being at peace because it was now evening, pitied the old grey stones.  And the pavement felt his pity.  Every stone felt it; stone told it unto stone for quite a mile.  It had been trodden on for two hundred years by dogs as well as men, it had been spat upon and covered with filth, but had not before been pitied.
     Deep in it's core it felt the poet's pity; it had felt an earthquake less.

Lord Dunsany shares through his potent writing the ability of creating a portal which transports us into the very setting of the story itself.  Anyone who has walked a lonely road lost in thought will recognize this realm. The smell of the wet pavement - rain on stone.  The feel of footsteps meandering as the mind follows its own fancy.  The power of connection that is the very fabric of reality - that which communicates the feeling of the poet through a network of stone conveying information further down the road.

We are told the poet's thoughts go wandering off into other realms, while the pavement fairly bristles with indignation.


  "What is this that dares to pity the heart of Earth?  A thing of a few years and the toy of Time!

     Is not Earth's heart of the lineage of the stars?..."


And we are allowed audience as the Earth waxes poetic about what it has seen throughout time.

  "...What love should Earth's heart have for the hearts of men, who have chosen cities as their foster-mothers, rejecting Earth?..."


Lord Dunsany was a story teller who could make his point in under 1000 words and he wrote a wealth of material in short story format.

The Heart Of Earth appears in Lost Tales Volume 1 published by Pegana Press; by arrangement with the Dunsany Estate.  This book contains 10 stories written by Lord Dunsany which have not been in print since their original magazine appearances about 100 years ago.

Available through Pegana Press.

  "...Am I not the heart of wandering Earth, child of the sun?

     Who?  Who has pitied me?..."

8  stories retrieved from  their original magazine publications  and 1 newly  discovered unpublished story provided from the Dunsany Estate.  

9 stories in  all. 

Frontispiece by Lord Dunsany.  Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer. 

Hand set letterpress printed in two color ink on soft grey Hahnemüle laid paper.  Hand bound on site with grey cloth on boards.  Ornate letterpress title inset on front and letterpress spine title.

34 pages limited to 92 numbered copies.  

Pegana Press 2013

• From magazines like Smart Set and Vanity Fair we bring you seven classic Dunsany stories published between 1915 and 1919.   Such intriguing titles as The Greatest Painter In The World, A Walk In The Wastes Of Time, and The House Of The Idol Carvers ​to name a few.
  
• The title story-The Emperor's Crystal-appeared in the campus newspaper of Trinity College Dublin in 1920.
  
• The book ends with The Secret Order, a story written in the spring of 1909, but never before published .
• An original drawing by Lord Dunsany was provided by Dunsany Castle for our frontispiece.
  

Collection of 3 previously unpublished stores, and 4 previously uncollected in book form.  7 stories in all. 

Handset letterpress printed on Hahnemühle laid paper and handbound on site with golden brown cloth on boards.   Ornate letterpress title inset on front and letterpress spine title.

Frontispiece by Sidney Sime, a watercolor commissioned by Lord Dunsany and completed in 1926, its first appearance in print in 88 years. Forward by Mike Tortorello.  

34 pages, limited to 80 hand numbered copies.  

Pegana Press 2014