The Beckoning Hand & Other Stories

by Allen, Grant

[30 Day Return Guarantee] Price: £295.00 ($ 491.79)

Book Description

UK 1st edition. New half-leather binding by the Peartree Bindery retaining original front cover design of a beckoning hand. Tissue-guarded frontispiece by Townley Green. 341pp plus 32pp rear catalogue, dated September 1886. Contents page bound in with front endpapers by publisher. Thirteen short stories, mostly horror and supernatual mysteries. Description: An attractive and durable book. The interior sheets are reasonably well-read with random folds to page corners, occasional finger spotting and all-round edge-wear. Literary Context: A very rare book, unknown to many including the Tartarus Press (refer to their enthusiastic if flawed Supernatural Fiction Database).

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