Speak of the Devil

by Sterling North and C. B. Boutell

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Garden City, New York, USA: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945 FIRST EDITION. Anthology of Demonology. Stories, Poems, and Plays by great writers about the Devil. Restless dreams to while away the night; macabre tales of shivering delight. Max Beerbohm. Baudelaire, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson. Sir Walter Scott, Gogol, Dante, Martin Luther, Tennyson, Milton, Marlowe's Faustus, C. S. Lewis, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more. VG-/G- Red cloth cover with slight edge wear; some dampstained and bleached spots on rear cover and along top edge of spine and front. Top page edges green-dyed; side and bottom edges deckle edged. Wrinkling of front flypages and first 18 pages thereafter - possibly a binders defect which does not affect readability. Binding and hinges tight. Pages clean and unmarked though showing slight age toning. DJ shows slight toning and moderate edge wear and tattering, particularly on front edges and spine edges with up to one inch chips. All four flap corners clipped, Else intact. Illustrated with red hooded figure and other strange designs.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/Good Minus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club Edition.