The Shadowy Third and Other Stories. by Glasgow, Ellen - 1923

Echo Library, April 2019. Trade Paperback. New.

Independently published, 2019. Paperback. New. 129 pages. 8.94x5.94x0.47 inches.

Independently published, 2019. Paperback. New. 240 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.60 inches.

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Abbott, Elenore Plaisted. Full dark red cloth with gilt letters and rules to front cover and spine, color frontispiece by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, 7-5/8" tall, 291 pp. Dulling to spine panel. The only collection of short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning Southern author. Four of the stories can be classified as ghost stories, although they were not marketed as such originally.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923 First edition. Frontispiece by Elenore Plaisted Abbott. Newspaper editorial pasted onto inner rear cover with offsetting to adjoing free endpaper. Rear free endpaper also stamped with library markings. Some light rubbing to the front cover and spotting to its lower corner. A very good copy.. Illus. by Abbott, Elenore Plaisted.

Doubleday Page and Co, 1923-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Very Attractive for its age. Clean cover with minor scuffing, on tight-bound clean age tanned pages. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4:30 PM M-F.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Elenore Plaisted Abbott (frontispiece). While this Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist published twenty novels, poetry and literary criticism over her four decades of work, this is the only collection of short stories, (seven in all), that American author, Ellen Glasgow, published during her lifetime. The first four stories are often categorized as ghost stories, while the other three are, respectively, a mystery, an illumination of the grapplings of twentieth century wives who were confronted with their husbands' infidelity, and the last, often connected to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" where a physician-narrator allows readers to determine the source of Alan Jordan's death in "Jordan's End". (Wikipedia). Bound in a deep burgundy-brown cloth, the cover is embossed in gilt lettering and surrounded by a gilt border. The spine is also lettered… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First edition. A bright, fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild wear slight loss to the corner tips, head of spine chipped with loss, shallow chips at base of spine panel with a sliver chip at the lower left front corner at spine edge, some age darkening to the spine panel, the front panel is nice and bright. A nice copy of a book in the rare jacket. (23965). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-291 [292: blank] [note: title leaf is an insert], inserted frontispiece with color illustration by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, title page printed in orange and black, original red-brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. "Psychological ghost stories by Pulitzer Prize winning Virginia regionalist; including oft-reprinted title story, also 'Dare's Gift,' an excellent treatment of ancestral curse theme. Subtle, sophisticated work; moral transgressions expiated in a supernatural context." - Robert Knowlton. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 695.… Read More