Strayers from Sheol by H.R. Wakefield - 2000

arkham house, 1961, first edition ,, . very good - fine, darker spine jacket only, NO BOOK

arkham 1961, first edition ,,. near fine jacket only, NO BOOK

Arkham House. 1961. Hardcover. No colophon, apparent 1st printing. 14 stories. 7.5x5.5", 186 pp. VG, clean & tight, in VG dj with yellowed spine. .

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, Publishers, 1961. First Edition. One of a Limited Edition of 2,070 copies. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 186 pp. Near-Fine, with neat former-owner stamp to ffep.; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket that is age darkened. From dust jacket: Although it is fifteen years since a collection of ghost stories bearing the byline of H. Russell Wakefiled has been offered to the reading public, it is evident from the first page to the last of this new book that the skilled hand of this master teller of tales has lost none of its art. With considered judgement, the distinguieshed poet-critic John Betjeman recently wrote in the London Daily Telegraph, M. R. James is the greatest master of the ghost story. Henry James, Sheridan LeFanu, and H. Russelll Wakefiled are equal seconds. Mr. Wakefield is now certainly the dean of ghost story writers, and only a writer thoroughly a master of his craft could have turned out such memorable tales as Immortal… Read More

1/1/1961. Hardcover w/DJ. Arkham House, 1961. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; spine tanned; black cloth; binding good; text clean. G/G

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 186pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Jacket designed by Gary Gore.

Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1961. Hard cover. Like New. Fine in very good dust jacket. very slight darkening of DJ's spine and tiny crease, now in ghost-proof mylar 13 ghost-stories from a master of the art. "I believe that ghost-story writing is a dying art".

Wisc: Arkham House. Fine. 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in black cloth. A Fine copy in a dj that has a jus t a hint of tanning to the spine else fine. .

Sauk City:: Arkham House,, 1961.. First edition. 2070 copies printed.. Hardcover.. Publishers black cloth gilt title to spine very minor shelf wear near fine. Illustrated dust jacket minor toning at edges still about near fine. In new protective mylar. Collection of 14 ghost stories. Baron: Horror Lit 4-311. Bleiler: Supernatural Fiction 1647.

Arkham House. Used - Very Good. 1961. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1961; black cloth/near fine with light shelf wear, foxing to upper text block; jacket is VG with some smudging and light shelf wear; includes typed letter to publisher inquiring about missing colophon with response from Arkham House saying it would have it cost too much. Very Good. (Subject: Literature.)