OLD FIRES AND PROFITABLE GHOSTS: A BOOK OF STORIES by Quiller-Couch, A[rthur] T[homas] - 1900

London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1900. First edition, first issue, variant with fore and bottom edges of text block untrimmed. A touch of rubbing to cloth at upper spine which is also a bit sunned, an attractive very good copy. (20114). Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-341 [342: printer's imprint] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "9.00" inserted at rear, original red buckram, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror… Read More