FANTASY PRESS :DIVIDE & RULE BY L SPRAGUE DE CAMP SIGNED, NO, LTD EDITION, H/BACK

CONDITION GOOD, SLIGHT SCUFFING OF DUST JACKET.

AUTHOR:  L SPRAGUE DE CAMP

CATEGORY SCIENCE FICTION

PUBLISHER  FANTASY PRESS 1ST EDIITON. 1948 SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO JOHN G ERICKSON. 53/500 LIMITED EDITION  3000 COPIES PRODUCED IN TOTAL.

FANTASY PRESS

AN AMERICAN PUBLISHING HOUSE SPECIALISING IN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION TITLES.  ESTABLISHED IN 1946 BY LLOYD ARTHUR ESHBACH, IT WAS MOST NOTABLE FOR PUBLISHING THE WORKS OF AUTHORS SUCH AS ROBERT A HEINLEIN AND EE SMITH .

FANTASY PRESS CONTINUED UNTIL 1955, BUT DUE TO THE GLUT OF SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS AND MAGAZINES ON THE MARKET PRODUCED BY MAINSTREAM PUBLISHERS ESHBACH DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO QUIT. 

SYNOPSIS 

2 SHORT NOVELS "DIVIDE & RULE" & "THE STOLEN DORMOUSE".  THE STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION BOTH POSTULATE FUTURES IN WHICH EARTH HAS REVERTED TO FEUDALISM, IN ONE INSTANCE BY THE DICTATE OF ALIEN INVADERS AND IN THE OTHER AS A RESULT OF THE ACCUMULATION OF EXCESSIVE POWER BY CORPORATIONS.