COLD HAND IN MINE: STRANGE STORIES
by Aickman, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684151324
- ISBN 13
- 9780684151328
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Edward Gorey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. 252. White illustrated paper dust jacket with black type. Black cloth boards with silver gilt type. With dust jacket illustration by Edward Gorey.
Edge wear, some creasing and toning to dust jacket. Two inch closed tear on bottom edge of back flap. Light edge wear, slight bumping on bottom edge of front board. Slight foxing on top of pages. Page 139/140 has some wrinkles on bottom portion. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. From the inside flap - "These eight stories draw the reader irresistibly into eight strange worlds - uncanny, enigmatic, unearthly. In each there is something chillingly wrong - a hint of diabolism or vampirism, of reincarnation or the living dead - all of which could be explained away as hallucination or hysteria. Or could it?...Robert Aickman's stories are the work of a master of the genre, subtle, written with consummate skill and command of detail. Their mystery lingers, tantalizes, never quite lets the reader go."
Includes the stories "The Swords", "The Real Road to the Church", "Niemandswasser", "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal", "The Hospice", "The Same Dog", "Meeting Mr. Millar", and "The Clock Watcher"
Edge wear, some creasing and toning to dust jacket. Two inch closed tear on bottom edge of back flap. Light edge wear, slight bumping on bottom edge of front board. Slight foxing on top of pages. Page 139/140 has some wrinkles on bottom portion. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. From the inside flap - "These eight stories draw the reader irresistibly into eight strange worlds - uncanny, enigmatic, unearthly. In each there is something chillingly wrong - a hint of diabolism or vampirism, of reincarnation or the living dead - all of which could be explained away as hallucination or hysteria. Or could it?...Robert Aickman's stories are the work of a master of the genre, subtle, written with consummate skill and command of detail. Their mystery lingers, tantalizes, never quite lets the reader go."
Includes the stories "The Swords", "The Real Road to the Church", "Niemandswasser", "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal", "The Hospice", "The Same Dog", "Meeting Mr. Millar", and "The Clock Watcher"
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 987
- Title
- COLD HAND IN MINE: STRANGE STORIES
- Author
- Aickman, Robert
- Illustrator
- Edward Gorey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684151324
- ISBN 13
- 9780684151328
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
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Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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