Tales of the Undead. Vampires and Visitants. Collected and Illustrated By Elinore Blaisdell

by Blaisdell, Elinore

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New York: Thomas Y Crowell and Company., 1947. ix.372pgs. Very Good + condition black cloth hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. Gilt decoration of a pierced heart to the front board, gilt lettering to spine. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers, previous owner name on front endpaper, else clean and unmarked, binding sound.Dusk jacket with price intact has general darkening of paper and some rubbing and small chips along edges and corners, overall quite presentable and now protected in a clear archival cover. Cover illustration of a woman with a stake piercing her heart. The author is a renowned anthologist and illustrator who has provided illustrations throughout the text for each of the short stories. Contents: Preface, Acknowledgments, Carmilla by J. Sheridan LeFanu, Brother Lucifer by Chandler W. Whipple, The Metronome by August W. Derleth, Uncanonized by Seabury Quinn, The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch, Clay-Shuttered Doors by Helen R. Hull, Amour Dure by Vernon Lee, School for the Unspeakables by Manly Wade Wellman, The Adventures of the German Student by Washington Irving, The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft, Second Night Out by Frank Belknap Long, Clarimonde by Theophile Gautier, The Seed From the Sepulcher by Clark Ashton Smith, For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford, The Story of Ming-Y by Lafcadio Hearn, The Quick and the Dead by Vincent Starrett, Satan's Circus by Eleanor Smith, Miss Mary Pask by Edith Wharton, Septima by Marcel Schob, Count Magnus by M.R. James, And He Shall Sing by H.R. Wakefield, Doom of the House of Duryea by Earl Pierce, The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson. #1902.. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. Illus. by Elinore Blaisdell. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Undead, Vampires, Tales, Visitants, Elinore Blaisdell, Anthology, Vampyre, Nosferatu, Gothic Horror, Vintage, Occult, Fantasy, Weird Tales, Tales, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Carmilla, J. Sheridan LeFanu, Brother Lucifer, Chandler W. Whipple, The Metronome, August W. Derleth, Uncanonized, Seabury Quinn, The Feast in the Abbey, Robert Bloch, Clay-Shuttered Doors, Helen R. Hull, Amour Dure, Vernon Lee, School for the Unspeakables, Manly Wade Wellman, The Adventures of the German Student, Washington Irving, The Tomb, H.P. Lovecraft, Second Night Out, Frank Belknap Long, Clarimonde, Theophile Gautier, The Seed From the Sepulcher, Clark Ashton Smith, For the Blood is the Life, F. Marion Crawford, The Story of Ming-Y, Lafcadio Hearn, The Quick and the Dead, Vincent Starrett, Satan's Circus, Eleanor Smith, Miss Mary Pask, Edith Wharton, Septima, Marcel Schob, Count Magnus, M.R. James, And He Shall Sing, H.R. Wakefield, Doom of the House of Duryea, Earl Pierce, The Room in the Tower, E.F. Benson.

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