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THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES
by Wakefield, H[erbert]. R[ussell]
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. First American Edition. The first and best of the English author's collections of supernatural horror. "Includes "Professor Pownall's Oversight," about a chess player harassed by the spirit of a murdered rival; "The Third Coach," a study in madness involving a nasty confidence trickster; and "The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster," about a haunted golf course...Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M.R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars" (Barron, Horror Literature 3-200). Bleiler 1641 (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction). First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, with scattered foxing to text edges (though clean internally); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing some trivial wear to extremities and a hint of foxing; still a bright, Near Fine example.
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- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6557
- Title
- THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES
- Author
- Wakefield, H[erbert]. R[ussell]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
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