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Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature  -A Visit to the Museum, The Pagan Rabbi, The Bureau d'Echange de Maux, The Large Ant, Tattoo, The Monkey's Paw, The Door in the Wall, Seaton's Aunt, The Friends of the Friends, Climax for a Ghost Story +

Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature -A Visit to the Museum, The Pagan Rabbi, The Bureau d'Echange de Maux, The Large Ant, Tattoo, The Monkey's Paw, The Door in the Wall, Seaton's Aunt, The Friends of the Friends, Climax for a Ghost Story +

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Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature -A Visit to the Museum, The Pagan Rabbi, The Bureau d'Echange de Maux, The Large Ant, Tattoo, The Monkey's Paw, The Door in the Wall, Seaton's Aunt, The Friends of the Friends, Climax for a Ghost Story +

by Manguel, Alberto (ed) -Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, L. P. Hartley, M. R. James, Jorge Luis Borges, Isak Dinesen, W. W. Jacobs, Brian Moore, Lord Dunsany, Ursula K. LeGuin, Franz Kafka, Howard Fast, J. B. Priestley, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, ++++

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New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1984. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover (roughly) 7 3/4" by 5" (inches) square true clean & tight, flat spine, (xix) 967 pages, flat spine, Very Good condition with minor edge wear/rubbing/spine creasing. Contents include: Foreword / House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar / How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens / Climax for a Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland / The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams / Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton / Venetian Masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares / The Wish House by Rudyard Kipling / The Playground by Ray Bradbury / Importance by Manuel Mujica Lainez / Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm / A Visitor from Down Under by L,. P. Hartley / Laura by Saki / An Injustice Revealed - Anonymous / A Little Place off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene / From 'A School Story' by M. R. James / The Signalman by Charles Dickens / The Tall Woman by Pedre Antonio de Alarcon / A Scent of Mimosa by Francis King / Death and the Gardener by Jean Cocteau / Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham / The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit by Giovanni Papini / Insomnia by Virgilio Pinera / The Storm by Jules Verne / A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) - Anonymous / The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe / Split Second by Daphne du Maurier / The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga / The Grey Ones by J. B. Priestley / The Lemmings by Alex Comfort / The Large Ant by Howard Fast / A Dog in Durer's Etching 'The Knight, Death and the Devil' by Marco Denevi / In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka / The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin / The Bureau d'Echange de Maux by Lord Dunsany / The Fisherman & his Soul by Oscar Wilde / The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozuck / Clorinda by Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues / The Sight by Brian Moore / August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges / How Wang-Fo Was Saved by Marguerite Yourcenar / From 'Peter and Rosa' by Isak Dinesen / Tattoo by Junichiro Tanizaki / John Duffy's Brother by Flann O'Brien / Lady Into Fox by David Garnett / Father's Last Escape by Bruno Schulz / A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse / The Argentine Ant by Ital Calvino / The Lady on the Grey by John Collier / The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin / Of a Promise Kept by Lafcadio Hearn / The Wizard Postponed by Juan Mauet / The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs / The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson / The Rocking-horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence / Certain Distant Suns by Joanne Greenburg / The Third Bank of the River by Joao Guimares Rosa / Home by Hilaire Belloc / The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells / The Friends by Silvina Ocampo / Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charle Williams / The Captives of Longjumeau by Leon Bloy / The Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov / 'Autumn Mountain' by Ryunosuke Akutagawa / Seaton's Aunt by Walter de la Mare / The Friends of Friends by Henry James / The Traveling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen / The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet / The State of Grace by Marcel Ayme / The Story of a Panic by E. M. Forster / The Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock / From the 'American Notebooks' by Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Dream by O Henry / The Authors. Check out the scans. . 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by George Tooker "The Subway"; . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Title
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature -A Visit to the Museum, The Pagan Rabbi, The Bureau d'Echange de Maux, The Large Ant, Tattoo, The Monkey's Paw, The Door in the Wall, Seaton's Aunt, The Friends of the Friends, Climax for a Ghost Story +
Author
Manguel, Alberto (ed) -Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, L. P. Hartley, M. R. James, Jorge Luis Borges, Isak Dinesen, W. W. Jacobs, Brian Moore, Lord Dunsany, Ursula K. LeGuin, Franz Kafka, Howard Fast, J. B. Priestley, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, ++++
Illustrator
George Tooker "The Subway";
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Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10
0517552698
ISBN 13
9780517552698
Publisher
Clarkson N. Potter
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1984
Size
12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords
Manguel, Alberto (ed) -Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, L. P. Hartley, M. R. James, Jorge Luis Borges, Isak Dinesen, W. W. Jacobs, Brian Moore, Lord Dunsany, Ursula K. LeGuin, Franz Kafka, Howard Fast, J. B. Priestley, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, +Black W
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Fiction; Fantasy and Science Fiction;

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