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James Bolivar Manson
"and the only copies that found their way into country house libraries were gifts from the author
15 full-page illustrations and numerous vignettes and head and tailpiece
an American artist about whom little is known other than he began painting covers for books for Fantasy Press and Gnome Press in 1950
New York: Assouli
Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination electro-optics James Bolivar MansonLondon: Granta, 2003. Publisher's hardback with the slightly rubbed dust jacket. 306 pages. Illusts and diags in the text. A VG+ copy. Three centuries ago mountains were considered a repellent form in landscape to be avoided at all cost so why is it that millions are people are drawn to them every year, often risking their lives. How have mountains come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the human psyche?
