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Farrar & Rinehart, 1944 Book is in Very Good Minus condition lacking a Dust Jacket. Peach boards with Black lettering. Publishers monogram on copyright page.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Lee Brown Coye. Hardcover.

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).

Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A collection of 20 stories, by many of the biggest names in the genre, edited by August Derleth. Missing the scarce DJ, VG book, some slight fading. Few stains front and back endpapers. Bleiler - 525. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .