Kingdoms of Elfin.

WARNER, Sylvia Townsend.

Item Number: 126860

New York: The Viking Press, 1977.

First edition, second printing of Warner’s classic collection of fantasy tales. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. Endpaper maps by Anita Karl.

Published a year before Warner's death, Kingdoms of Elfin contains a series of interconnected satirical fantasy stories detailing the manners of the fairy courts of Europe. In a review of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, Naomi Mitchison described Kingdoms of Elfin as "the last and most brilliant of Sylvia Townsend Warner's books". Thomas M. Disch included Kingdoms of Elfin in his list of "modern classic" works of fantasy. Darrell Schweitzer described The Kingdoms of Elfin as containing "memorable flashes" and said that the stories "reveal new complexities on rereading".