A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Anderson's alternate-history Shakespearian fantasia with elves, warmly inscribed to fellow science fiction writer Reginald Bretnor and screenwriter Rosalie (Bodrero) Bretnor. 8'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth. In original unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket by Tim Lewis. 207, [1] pages. Inscribed by Anderson on front free endpaper: "To Reg and Rosalie Bretnor with thanks for wonderful hospitality. Poul Anderson 21/7/78." Minor scuffing to boards at extremities. Offsetting to endpapers. Light edgewear, faint chipping and soil to jacket.