THE KINGDOM OF EVIL: A CONTINUATION OF THE JOURNAL OF FANTAZIUS MALLARE by Hecht, Ben - 1976

Harcourt Brace 1978 First Edition Thus. Remainder stamp bottom page edges, wear and rubbing to covers. See photos clphE

Harcourt. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First Thus, First Printing (Full Number Line). Published by HBJ, 1978. Octavo. Pictorial wraps. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Covers have shelf wear, nicks and small scrapes. Illustrated by Anthony Angarola. 211 pages. ISBN: 015647123X. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First Edition Thus. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Hecht, best remembered today for his prize-winning scripts for movies and plays, usually about crime or comedy, ventured briefly early in his career into horror and fantasy with two short novels, "Fantazius Mallare" and its sequel, "The Kingdom of Evil," which as one reviewer has noted, "Here Mallare shuns reality altogether to retreat into a bizarre psychological netherworld." Mallare is kidnapped, enslaved and forced to work with other slaves to create a god, an inhuman entity that grows to enormous size before it is killed and the Kingdom is overun by homicidal mannequins. The Kingdom's inhabitants come to realize their world is a surreal figment of Mallare's imagination, become upset and bring the Kingdom to a suitable end. While "The Kingdom of Evil" did not achieve Federal Government confiscation as "obscene material," followed by a… Read More

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. NY. 1970. Paper. The sequel to "Fantazius Mallare" originally pub. in a limited ed. in 1924. Illus. w. 12 strange bold b&w drawings by Anthony Angarola. Light wear to covers & remainder mark to bott. edge. Vg+

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harcourt, 1978-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

The Kingdom of Evil: A Continuation of the Journal of Fantazius Mallareby Ben HechtChicago: Pascal Covici, 1924. First Edition, Limited Edition. Twelve full-page black-and-white illustrations by Anthony Angarola, including frontispiece, plus illustrated endpapers. This edition limited to 2,000 numbered copies of which 1,900 were offered for sale by subscription only. This is copy No. 669. Octavo hardcover in the original jacket, 9 3/4"x 6 1/4", 211 pp. Black cloth with bright gilt logo on front board, and titles on the spine. An interesting attempt at science fiction from the renowned screenwriter (Front Page, Scarface, Notorious) with striking illustrations. A scarce limited edition that's in excellent condition, in a somewhat worn, faded paper jacket.

THE KINGDOM OF EVIL, Covici, 1924, first edition, a bright vg+ copy in a vg dust-wrapper save for a thumb-nail size chip missing from the front dust-wrapper panel and some inner reinforcement. Illustrated by A. Angarola. 1/2,000 copies.