THE ACCURSED by Seignolle, Claude

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5" . None . A bright copy of this scarce first English language edition of two of Claude Seignolle's chilling tales. The first English edition of this work. Featuring two tales by Claude Seignolle concerned with the supernatural, set in the nineteenth century. Translated by Lawrence Durrell. A scarce copy complete with its unclipped dust wrapper.Claude Seignolle was a French author, folklore and archaeology enthusiast. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear, light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only, minor staining mark internally to wraps not affecting externals. Internally, firmly bound. Minor spotting to fore edge, affecting only first and last few leaves; pages otherwise bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with red titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket featuring a blue and orange ravening wolf, priced at 28s. Also with a contemporary Book Society membership invitation loose to preliminaries. Some rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. Originally published in French in 1963, comprising 'Malvenue' and 'Marie the Wolf.' Durrell describes Seignolle's Gothic style as '... at once curious, poetic and also realistic.'.