TALES OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL
by Machen, Arthur
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: The Richards Press, Ltd., 1949. First edition. Octavo. Red cloth lettered in black on spine. Frontispiece collotype portrait. 427,[1] pp. Posthumous collection of 14 short novels, and short stories. Offsetting to front endsheets, else a very good copy in a dreadful dust jacket encased in mylar principally to preserve its liberal use of tape. Critical introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 538
- Title
- TALES OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL
- Author
- Machen, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Richards Press, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Horror, occult, supernatural, gothic
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....