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DAY AND NIGHT STORIES
by Blackwood, Algernon
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Offsetting to free end papers, mild foxing to page edges, a nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine pictorial dust jacket
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About This Item
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1917]. First edition. Offsetting to free end papers, mild foxing to page edges, a nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine pictorial dust jacket with tiny chips to corner tips with tiny closed tear and crease to upper right front corner, tiny 4 mm tear at base of front panel, light wear to spine ends with shallow chipping to head of spine panel and tiny chip at lower spine panel. Rare in dust jacket. (30747). Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-332, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. Collects fifteen supernatural stories including the excellent "The Other Wing" and "A Victim of Higher Space," the last John Silence story. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 189. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 214. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 34. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-28. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01379. Ashley A.16.2.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30747
- Title
- DAY AND NIGHT STORIES
- Author
- Blackwood, Algernon
- Book Condition
- Used - Offsetting to free end papers, mild foxing to page edges, a nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine pictorial dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
- Date Published
- [1917]
- Keywords
- Horror & Supernatural . SC . Mystery
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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