Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
by DERLETH, August (editor); COYE, Lee Brown (illustrations)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); orange cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black on spine and front cover; blue topstain; x,374pp; illus. Sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, topstain faded, with a few faint patches of dust-soil to front cover; contents clean; Very Good+, lacking the scarce dustjacket. An elusive wartime publication, gathering 20 macabre stories by M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, Howard Wandrei, Robert Bloch, M.P. Shiel, Robert W. Chambers, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and others. "Derleth's introduction explains that this collection includes many tales previously out of print, and is intended primarily for the cognoscenti who have any other collections already on their shelves. Many of the stories once appeared in Weird Tales" (WILSON 367).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61635
- Title
- Sleep No More: Twenty Masterpieces of Horror for the Connoisseur
- Author
- DERLETH, August (editor); COYE, Lee Brown (illustrations)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Fantasy - Lost Race - Science Fiction;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Good+
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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....
- Cloth
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- Octavo
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