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De Camp, L. Sprague + Pratt
LAND OF UNREASON
book-date: 1942
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Dell
1979
1st
Paperback
Esteban Maroto
$1.75
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Tight with mild tllt; spine is flat with a line down length. No stamps, marks or writing.

Interior illustrations by Edd Cartier - reprinted from the original magazine appearance in Unknown Worlds. These are absolutely amazing (and funny.) Even if you have some other edition - you may want to get this just for the illustrations.

Land of Unreason, a stand-alone fantasy novel by the team of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. A shorter magazine version was in Unknown Worlds October 1941.

Since I haven't read this, I'm quoting the back-cover copy, and note that the elf referred to was drunk because Fred Barber had replaced a bowl of milk - the traditional leaving for the Little People on St. John's Eve - with some Scotch that he didn't want to drink himself...

THE ELF WAS DRUNK TO BEGIN WITH...
Otherwise he would never have kidnapped Fred Barber and dropped him into the Court of King Oberon and Queen Titania. Barber, a seasoned diplomat, believed only what he saw - but what he was seeing was unbelievable: elves, fairies, sprites, goblins, all matter-of-factly living in a world of spells, curses, and assorted magics. It was like something out of a children's story - until Barber's quest for a way back to the "real" world of the 20th century unleashed forces of ancient evil that had been lying in wait for him a long, long time...