DUNSANY, Lord (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 1878-1957). The Blessing of Pan. London: G.P. Putnam's and Sons, 1927. 8vo. [vi], 287, [1, colophon] pp. Frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth stamped gilt in original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF DUNSANY'S ACCLAIMED FANTASY NOVEL, SCARCE IN JACKET. 

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. The Blessing of Pan explores one of his recurring interests, the Greek god Pan, telling the story of a small English village and its reverend who fall under the god's malevolent influence.

Light edge wear, chipping to spine block, edge wear, light soiling and rubbing, few small holes, adhesive residue from sticker over spine price. Boards lightly rubbed; endpapers toned, bookseller's sticker to front pastedown, pencil inscriptions to ffep, frontispiece disbound, light foxing throughout. This is an excellent copy, scarce in the original dust jacket.