.description {font-size: 16px;}.heading {font-weight: bold;}.details {font-weight: normal;} Sphinx by David Lindsay (First Edition)Authors: David LindsaySeries/Book Number: 1Location: LondonPublisher: John Long, LimitedDate: 1923Edition: First EditionFeatures: Published 1923, stated p. 318. Copyright 1923. Sea green cloth with black lettering and blind stamped design and ruling; 318 pp. Publisher's adverts laid in at rear.Book Condition: Very Good+: Mild wear to spine edges and corners. 3" tear to the edge of page 229. Mild offset tanning to endpapers.Notes: "British metaphysical novelist. A writer of great imagination and originality, odd strengths and weaknesses... A very strange novel with both thought-provoking metaphysics and a good picture of pre-Titanic resort life among the British middle classes. Most critics have dismissed Sphinx as a failure, but I find it curiously fascinating." E.F. Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983, p. 312-313.HCX23200-1
