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Thru [Through] the Dragon Glass.

MERRITT, A. (1884-1943).

Jamaica, NY: The ARRA Printers for the Frank A. Munsey Company, 1917. [Fantasy Short Story] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Sexto-Decimo pamphlet (17 x 13cm), pp.24. Publisher's orange card covers, stapled twice. Light damp stain to lower corner of text. Covers toned, marked and chipped to edges. A rare survival of an ephemeral item. Good. Merritt's first ever fantasy story, first published in the Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine in November 1917. A strange tale relating to the fantastic properties of an object looted from Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900-1901. Item #56422

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