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Title: The Heads of Cerberus [and] The Abyss of Wonders Author: Stevens, Francis, [pseud. of Gertrude Barrows Bennett] and Sheehan, Perley Poore Place: Reading, PA Publisher: Polaris Press Date: 1952-1953 Description: Comprises: Stevens. The Heads of Cerberus. Intro. by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. Illus. by Ric Binkley. Green cloth. 1952. * Sheehan. The Abyss of Wonders. Intro. by P. Schuyler Miller. Illus. by John T. Brooks. Red cloth. 1953. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo. Cloth, stamped in silver, jackets, publisher's slipcases. One of 1500 copies, each. First Editions. The first two volumes by the Polaris Fantasy Press, a subsidiary of Fantasy Press. The Heads of Cerberus was originally published in 1919 as a pulp magazine and is considered to be the first work of fantasy to envisage the parallel time concept. Also, "Perley Poore Sheehan's fantasies were published in the Munsey magazines between 1913 and 1917. Read today, they have the freshness of style, the feeling for people and places which you will find in 'The Abyss of Wonders' (Argosy, January, 1915), the most fully developed of them all" - from Miller's introduction. See Bleiler's Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1464; Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 718-19. Lot Amendments Condition: Light edge wear and rubbing to slipcases; jacket spines a bit faded, mild edge wear; plus other minor wear overall; generally near fine in near fine jackets and slipcases. Item number: 148195