The Flames: A Fantasy . Stapledon, William Olaf Supernatural

Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-84, original red and black marbled boards with black cloth shelf back, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The narrator, after tossing a piece of igneous rock into his fireplace one night, finds he has liberated a fire elemental (a salamander), who proceeds to engage him in conversation on matters of great import. Presented as a long letter from a friend in an insane asylum. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1517. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13552. Satty and Smith A18.1.1. A fine copy in very good dust jacket priced 6s. net on front flap with small chip at upper edge of front panel and sunned spine panel. (#173852)