The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle — Peter S. Beagle

"The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle"; Viking Press(Garden City; 1978); BCE; 1st ed/1st prnt (code 01 R, pg 335); HB,VGG; Not ex-lib, NOT remainder; HB-tan boards w/purple letters +unicorn, sturdy binding, corners slightly bumped; DJ-bright, colorful design by Darrell Sweet, very slight edgewear, Mylar(Brodart) wrap; 429pps, topedge dust soiled, deckle edged; In the forward to "The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle," the reader gets a rare glimpse of the author's early influences as well as a short history on each of the four stories included in the volume; Included is Beagle's "The Last Unicorn," a sophisticated, luminous novella & "Lila the Werwolf"- an early example of the sub-genre of fantasy later to be developed by Charles de Lint; The haunting cover illustration by Sweet would later be used for "The Last Unicorn."