The Incomplete Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt

The Incomplete Enchanter by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, published in 1941. Signed by Sprague de Camp on title page. Front endsheet carries the ownership signature of Van Henry Splawn a weird fiction magazine publiser and founder of Vulcan publications. The Harold Shea stories are parallel world tales in which magic exists in separate universes which coexist with our own, and which can be reached by aligning one’s mind to them by a system of symbolic logic. The worlds are based on the mythologies, legends, and literary fantasies of our world. In the stories collected as The Incomplete Enchanter, the authors’ protagonist Harold Shea visits two such worlds, that of Norse mythology and that of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Hardcover with light shelfwear to corners and ends.