Devils Tor by David Lindsay (31 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Devil's Tor: From the Author of a Voyage to Arcturus. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Very Good. Rare Linsday trade paperback in nice condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Devil's Tor', first published in 1932, is the undoubted masterpiece of David Lindsay. Many of the extraordinary and disturbing themes of his first and most famous work, 'A Voyage to Arcturus' (1920), are explored more deeply and expressed more clearly in this book. The story describes the experiences and mental processes of various people drawn by an active Fate to Devil's Tor, a minor Dartmoor height. Lives are transformed, shattered and ended by forces that can remake stars and galaxies. Nowhere in printed English is the working of the Unseen in living minds more vividly drawn than in David Lindsay; and nowhere in Lindsay more magnificently than in 'Devil's Tor'. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Locke SPECTRUM, Bleiler GUIDE 1022. "Lindsay's magnum opus.colosol.nothing comparable. Pucker to lower corner of first 30 or so pages, clean, free of any former owner marking.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Black boards, the front with 15% loss to its surface sheen (water damage?); The spine, lettered in gilt, speckled with miniscule gold spots. Internally endpapers foxed and the free ones partly tanned; half-title and title pages foxed; first blank and page 1 with a few spots; pages 34, 35 and 36 affected by a 2 cm x 2 cm stain; pages 54 to 63 affected by significant foxing; marginal stains to pages 79 to 89; a 5 cm x 5 mm cup ring on pages 262, 263 and 264; a heavy 5 mm x 5 mm spot on page 267 bleeds on to adjacent pages; foxing and a few finger stains at end i.e. pages 479 to 487. This catalogue of stains is not comprehensive: many pages have minor marks and many are unmarked. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, signed by David Lindsay with "Sincere Regards," and dated June 1932 on the ffep. 8vo, [1], 487pp, [1]. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine in original illustrated jacket. Very good with ownership signature in pencil to front pastedown, and original newspaper review clipping laid in which has caused some acid offsetting. Minor foxing to foredge of text block and light soiling to boards, else clean. Jacket with a few small closed tears to head and heel, wear at corners, and some staining and soiling. Price clipped upper corner, with 7s. 6d. net price visible on bottom corner. The fifth and final novel published during English author, David Lindsay's lifetime. Devil's Tor expanded upon psychological and metaphysical themes found in his first work, A Voyage to Arcturus, a book which J. R. R. Tolkien himself said he read "with avidity." (Humphrey Carpenter, ed. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. 1981). The plot, difficult to describe due to its breadth and scope, revolves around the uniting of two halves of a powerful talisman, and the potential apocalypse caused by that act. Barron, in his Fantasy and Horror, describes the work as "Marvelously atmospheric and admirably conscientious in its design of a hypothetical mythology and the metaphysics to go with it." A quite uncommon signed copy of arguably the magnum opus of this highly influential fantasy author. Barron, Fantasy and Horror 5-181, Bleiler 1022, Currey pg 314 (Binding A), Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy pg 140.…

VG+/NONE. BOOK HAS BEEN REBOUND IN QUARTER RED LEATHER WITH RED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS, RED ENDPAPERS, AND GILT SPINE TITLES AND DESIGN. IT HAS BEEN TRIMMED 3/16" BOTH LENGTH AND WIDTH AND THE TOP EDGE HAS BEEN STAINED RED. FOXING MAINLY TO THE PRELIMINARY AND TERMINAL LEAVES AND THE EDGES OF THE TEXT BLOCK. BOARDS ARE MODERATELY COLOR FADED BUT OTHERWISE A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF A RARE BOOK IN FIRST EDITION. FIRST EDITION.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 556.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 556.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 556.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Ingrid Fleming has always believed a goddess lies buried beneath the forbidding, Devil-headed rock-pile atop Devil's Tor. But when the pile is shattered in a sudden storm, it's her cousin, Hugh Drapier, who enters the newly-revealed tomb.Drapier has recently arrived from Tibet, where an encounter with the adventurer Henry Saltfleet and the archeologist Stephen Arsinal has left him in possession of a stolen sacred stone, the half of a broken whole, which has the power to induce visions of its arrival on Earth in the early days of primitive humanity.Arsinal believes the stone to be sacred to the Great Mother, and key to a prophecy that will unite a chosen man and woman, and bring about the birth of a new saviour. He and Saltfleet return to England on Drapier's trail, and arrive in Dartmoor just as the machinery of a thousands-year-long supernatural fate begins its final turnA troubled, troubling, ambitious and difficult work that David Lindsay himself called his 'monster', Devil's Tor answers the imaginative pyrotechnics of Lindsay's first novel, A Voyage to Arcturus, with a sustained maturity of insight into the intensely-felt and deeply-examined inner lives of its handful of characters, and the fate that has brought them together at the dawn of a new human era.At times irrecoverably tangled in the attitudes of its day, Devil's Tor nevertheless builds to a transcendent final vision of the ultimate purpose of human life and suffering.…