DUNSANY, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 1878-1957). Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, and The Charwoman's Shadow. New York: G.P. Putnam's and Sons, 1922/1926. 8vos. Frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth lettered black and gilt; original unclipped illustrated dust jackets. FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS OF DUNSANY'S "SHADOW VALLEY" CHRONICLES.

Lord Dunsany, "unquestionably one of the most important writers of heroic fantasy of the century," published more than 90 volumes in his lifetime, including plays, novels, short stories, and essays, influencing authors as diverse as J. R. R. Tolkien, Jorge Luis Borges, Clive Barker, and Ursula K. Le Guin. These two novels comprise his complete "Shadow Valley" chronicles, two standalone stories set in the same mythical "Golden Age" of Spain. The First American Edition of Don Rodriguez was published simultaneously in the UK under the title The Chronicles of Rodriguez. 

Don Rodriguez with rubbing, toning, paper loss and edge wear to jacket, spine block torn, tape repairs to reverse, soiling to lower margin rear. Small bookseller's plate to rear pastedown, front endpapers tanned. Else near fine. Charwoman's Shadow with jacket lightly toned, spine darkened, minor edge wear. Ownership inscription to ffep, spine sunned. Near fine.