The Extra Day; Association Copy [Elizabeth Belloc's notated Copy, with Laid in signed Postcard from Algernon Blackwood to Belloc]

London: MacMillan & Co., 1915. First Edition, Second State . Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus. Octavo. London: MacMillan & Co., 1915. First Edition, second state with 2 pages of ads. Laid in postcard from Blackwood to Elizabeth Belloc (daughter of Hilaire Belloc), signed by Blackwood. Association copy, that of Elizabeth Belloc, with her signature and annotations in pencil. Octavo, 358 pp. + ads. Blue cloth, decoratively blindstamped, gilt imprinting. Spine dulled but readable, some page edge soiling, substantially better than Very Good. A remarkably collectible copy of the first edition of seminal fantasy and horror author Algernon Blackwoods's The Extra Day, a tale involving time displacement and three young children. This unique copy belonged to Elizabeth Belloc, daughter of author Hilaire Belloc, and is signed in pencil by her on the flyleaf and dated April 27th, 1921. She has also penciled in a lengthy inscription in Latin on the rear free endpaper, with the cryptic comment, "[fa?]the way to Oxford, - April '21". Equally memorable is the laid-in postcard from Blackwood to Elizabeth Belloc, posted from Sannenmoseh (sic), Switzerland, in which he warmly speaks of a snowbound winter and notes that he's en route to Egypt. Blackwood, author of the such timeless horror stories as The Wendigo and The Willows, strongly influenced later genre greats such as H.P. Lovecraft, who said of Blackwood: "... Of the quality of Mr. Blackwood's genius there can be no dispute; for no one has even approached the skill, seriousness, and minute fidelity with which he records the overtones of strangeness in ordinary things and experiences, or the preternatural insight with which he builds up detail by detail the complete sensations and perceptions leading from reality into supernormal life or vision." Unique in this form. L-41n