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London: R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101, Strand, 1817. First Edition. Mottled Calf. Near Fine+. First Edition in book form (originally published in eight monthly parts), Rowlandson and Combe's companion-piece to their earlier "The Dance of Death" and one of Rowlandson's finest works. Royal 8vo: [2],ii,ii,285,[3]pp, with additional engraved title page, frontispiece (representing Time pointing at various scenes on a screen), and 24 hand-colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. (Hardie has shown that the four leaves of advertisements found in some copies could not have been bound in until after 1820.) Contemporary mottled calf, respined, covers framed with gilt role, black morocco lettering piece gilt, marbled edges. An excellent copy, tightly bound, virtually free of foxing, with richly colored examples of the plates. Abbey, Life, 264. Tooley 410. Grolier, Rowlandson, 38. Prideaux, pp. 306-07 ("notably above the ordinary level of Combe's verse. . . . show[ing] the better side of Rowlandson's…
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The Dance of Life, a poem, by the author of "Doctor Syntax." illustrated with coloured engravings, by Thomas Rowlandson
by COMBE, William (1741-1823); Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827)
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The Danger Tree [Uncorrected Proof]
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Advance Reading Copy. Wrappers. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first title in Manning's Levant Trilogy, with publisher's press release and compliments slip laid in. Tall 8vo (214 x 138mm): 196pp. Publisher's stiff tangerine-colored wrappers printed in black. Fine, tightly bound copy (apparently unread) with light smudge to bottom edge. Burgess, p. 76. In the Balkan and Levant trilogies (we have both sets on offer), Manning's "portrait of a group of British expatriate teachers, writers and diplomats caught up in the disruptions of the conflict [Second World War] sets an intimate study of personal relationships in the context of international political and military intrigue across a five year period. Her fictionalized treatments of wartime Romania, Greece and Egypt convey as a backdrop the suffering caused by the collapse of old imperial Europe, the rampant spread of fascist ideology and the mass displacement of populations, while focusing in the foreground on…
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Dangling Man [Signed]
by BELLOW, Saul (1915-2005)
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London: John Lehmann, 1946. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression ("First published in England 1946") of this slim, quiet masterpiece (Bellow's first book) from the Nobel prizewinning author of Herzog, Augie March, and Henderson the Rain King. Slim crown 8vo (184 x 119mm): 191,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven sunflower cloth, spine stamped in brown, illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped) by Robert Medley. Signed by Bellow on front fly-leaf. Fine, tight (probably unread), and bright; about Fine jacket with touch of usual darkening to spine and back panels but front panel still vivid. Cronin & Hall 2. Written in diary format, the story centers on Joseph, "a would-be writer and intellectual caught waiting for the Draft, who romantically believes that intellectual and spiritual enlightenment is to be attained by isolating himself within the confines of a room in a cheap Chicago boarding house while he studies the great writers of the Enlightenment. . . . [In it is] much of Bellow's…
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Dante [The Poets on the Poets]
by ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965)
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London: Faber and Faber, 1929. First Impression. Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover printed in black, top edge stained blue (some copies were stained green); matching dust jacket with marvelous design by Rex Whistler, priced 3s / 6d. A superlative example, virtually pristine inside and out (jacket's spine panel almost imperceptibly toned), one of only 2,000 copies. Gallup A13a. Second in the short-lived Faber series The Poets on the Poets, preceded by Vita Sackville-West's appreciation of Andrew Marvel and followed by Lascelles Abercrombie's Wordsworth. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders…
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Days in the Yellow Leaf [Tom Wolfe's copy]
by HOFFMAN, William (1925-2009)
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New York: Doubleday, 1958. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition (so stated) of the author's second novel. 8vo: 354pp. Publisher's mustard-yellow linen, spine lettered in black, fore-edge untrimmed, illustrated dust jacket priced $3.95. Fine, apparently unread copy, in an about Fine jacket, head of spine panel lightly rubbed. Provenance: Inscribed in blue ink to the front fly-leaf: "Tom Wolfe / His Book." Wolfe and Hoffman were classmates in the 1950s at Washington and Lee University, where both studied creative writer with George Foster. If Wolfe's celebrity is now greater, Hoffman also earned a measure of success, receiving the John Dos Passos Prize For Literature, an O. Henry Prize and the Dashiell Hammett Award. As was ttrue of The Trumpet Unblown, his debut novel, he drew upon his war experiences for Days in the Yellow Leaf (the title is from Byron: "My days are in the yellow leaf; / The flowers and fruits of Love are gone;"). In all, Hoffman published thirteen novels and four…
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[De Arte Graphica] The Art of Painting : with Remarks: Translated into English, with an Original Preface, Containing a Parallel Between Painting and Poetry: by Mr. Dryden. As Also a Short Account of the Most Eminent Painters, Both Ancient and Modern: by R. G. [Richard Graham]
by DU FRESNOY, Charles Alphonse (1611-1668); John Dryden (translates)
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London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple Gates, in Fleetstreet, 1716. Cambridge-style Calf. Fine. Second Edition, revised and enlarged, of Dryden's prose translation of du Fresnoy's poem on the art of painting, prefaced by Dryden's Parallel of Poetry and Painting and with Richard Graham's biographical chronology of painters, "A short account of the most eminent painters," with separate title page. Foolscap 8vo (171 x 107mm): [16],lxviii,[4],397,[7]pp, with copper-engraved frontispiece and armorial headpiece, both by S. Gribelin. Cambridge-style paneled calf, calf lettering piece gilt, edges speckled red, title page printed in red and black. Provenance: Jacobean armorial book plate of Thomas Lloyd of Aston to front paste-down (Frank Bequest 18506). An excellent example in contemporary binding, fresh and bright. Griffith 46 (for another 1716 edition with different imprint). MacDonald 139 b. Maslen & Lancaster 286 (Issue A). Parallel texts of du Fresnoy's Latin poem, "De arte graphica,"…
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Death Under Sail
by SNOW, C. P. (1905-1980)
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London: William Heinemann [through 1959], 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. Revised and reset (first published 1932) edition of Snow's first novel, an ingenious detective story set on the Norfolk Broads—"a murderer making his murder look like a suicide arranged to look like a murder." 8vo: viii,255,[1]pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Fine, bright, unread copy, in an about Fine jacket, lightly toned. According to the "Author's Note," Death Under Sail served as a signal to Snow, "though not to many others," that he proposed to give up scientific work and turn to writing novels, though not detective fiction. His next novel, published anonymously, was science fiction (New Lives for Old), followed by a bildungsroman about the loss of a scientific vocation (The Search). But forty-seven years after publication of Death Under Sail, in his final novel (A Coat of Varnish, 1979), Snow returned to the detective story. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified),…
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Death of a Salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem
by MILLER, Arthur (1915-2005)
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London: The Cresset Press, 1949. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Impression ("First published in Great Britain in 1949") of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century by one of the greatest American playwrights. Small, slim 8vo (185 x 119 cm): 133,[1]pp. Publisher's vivid scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold, grey dust jacket printed in black and red, unpriced but unclipped (Crandell gives a price of 7/6, but makes no mention of the jacket, whose flaps on our copy are blank, making this jacket an unrecognized variant). Slight oxidation to spine gilt, minor toning to jacket's spine panel, else Fine. Crandell A4e. This, Miller's second play (after All My Sons), premiered in New York at the Morosco Theater, with performances from February, 1949 until mid-November, 1950. It received enthusiastic reviews and numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Play—the first play…
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Death of a Naturalist [Signed]
by HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013)
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo: 57,[1]pp. Publisher's aquamarine cloth, spine lettered in gilt; typographic dust jacket, in salmon-pink, olive and white, lettered in black and priced $3.75. Signed by Heaney on the title page. A stunning copy, tight, square and likely unread; about Fine jacket, fresh and bright, with usual fading to the fugitive salmon-pink on bottom half of spine panel but all lettering undiminished. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Eric Gregory Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Heaney received the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1995. Brandes & Durkan A2b. A collection of 34 poems largely concerned with rural life,…
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Deer Park
by MAILER, Norman (1923-2007)
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London: Allan Wingate, 1957. First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Impression of Mailer's third book, a roman à clef whose protagonist is a recently discharged Air Force officer and would-be novelist. Crown 8vo (182 x 115mm): 388pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gold, matching blue top edge. Typographic dust jacket, priced at 15s. Virtually pristine (apparently unread), square and tightly bound and clean throughout. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors's works. Mailer's title refers to the Parc-aux-Cerfs, a resort Louis XV of France kept stocked with young women for his personal pleasure. The novel "seems to have been a literary response to the tempestuousness of his second marriage [in a notorious incident, Mailer stabbed his wife in the shoulder during one of their public arguments], but it also makes use of the impressions of Hollywood gained from his experiences as a screenwriter.…
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The Descendant [First Issue]
by GLASGOW, Ellen Anderson Gholson (1873-1945)
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine-. First Printing of Glasgow's first book in first issue binding (author's name not on spine and single imprint on title page). Small 8vo: [4],276,[8]pp. Publisher's green and brown art deco pictorial cloth, covers and spine ornamented in gilt with flowers and swirls; spine and upper cover lettered in gilt. Very slight browning to front end sheets, upper half of spine lightly speckled, else a firmly bound, bright, clean copy. Wright 2190. Fullurton, p. 114. Johnson and Blanck, p. 204. Glasgow published 20 novels, including five bestsellers, and won the Pulitzer prize in 1942. Before she died, she had won every major award for fiction except the Nobel prize. This, her first novel, was written in secret and published anonymously when she was 24 years old. She destroyed part of the manuscript after her mother died in 1893. Publication was further delayed after her brother-in-law and mentor, George McCormack, died the following…
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The Deserted Village, A Poem
by GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774)
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London: Printed for W. Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine street, Strand, 1770. First Edition. Morocco. Near Fine+. First Issue (with erroneous catchword "Careless" for "Thus" on p. 9) of one of the most influential poems of the eighteenth century, condemning the enclosure of land into vast landscaped estates. 4to: vii,[1]-23[1]pp, with half-title (bulked at end with 22 blank leaves). Title page with engraved vignette by Isaac Taylor, "The Sad Historian on the Pensive Plain." With the half title stating, "Price 2s." Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, president of the Royal Academy. Beautifully bound in full red recent morocco, spine with four raised bands ruled in gilt, black morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers and blanks (including 22 leaves at end to add bulk) renewed. Very minor light scratches to boards, else the handsome binding is tight and square. Half title soiled and toned, with tiny closed tear to center, very occasional faint spotting, final leaf with old neat patch repair to…
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Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of English history; Consisting of Choice Tracts, Memoirs, Letters, Wills, Epitaphs, &c. Transcribed, Many of them, from the Originals Themselves, and the Rest from Divers Antient Ms. Copies, or the Ms. Collections of Sundry Famous Antiquaries and other Eminent Persons, both of the Last and Present Age: the whole, as Near as Possible, digested into an Order of Time, and Illustrated with Ample Notes, Contents, Additional Discourses, and a Complete Index
by PECK, Francis (1692-1743)
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London: printed for Thomas Evans in the Strand, 1779. First Edition thus. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. Large Paper Copy ("A new Edition, greatly corrected, with some Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mr. Peck") of this "curious collection of original papers, relating chiefly to English history." (Lowndes) Two volumes bound as one, each with separate title page but continuously paginated. 4to (307 x 235mm): xvii,[7],238,[10]; vi,[10],[239]-581,[9]pp, with engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and nine copper-engraved plates. Pages. 420 and 426 misnumbered 400 and 406, respectively. Recent period-style blue-grey paper-covered boards by Fitterer, beige paper spine with paper title label printed in black, end-papers renewed. Several leaves heavily dust-speckled, several others lightly so, else a finely bound wide-margined copy, fresh, bright, and clean throughout with tissue guards protecting all plates. Lowndes IV: 1812. Lewine, p. 406 ("of about the same value" as the first edition of…
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The Devil's Highway
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell (1872-1944) and John Lebar
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New York: D. Appleton, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Printing, with the number (1) in parenthesis on the final page. 8vo; [6], 336pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt; in the original illustrated dust jacket priced at $2.00. A Near Fine or better copy, very lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; in a just about Fine, lightly edge-worn jacket. Little read today, the novels of Harold Bell Wright outsold those of every other American writer during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Newspapers of the day claimed Wright was the first author to write a novel that reached a million sales, and the statement cannot be far wrong. (The Devil's Highway, on the other hand, sold very few copies, making it today one of the most difficult of Wright's titles to obtain, in any condition.) John Lebar was the pen name of Wright's oldest son, Gilbert Munger Wright. In the Devil's Highway, they launched a scathing attack on "scientism," the belief that, in…
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Dialogues of the Dead, In Three Parts. I. Dialogues of the Antients. II. The Antients with the Moderns. III. The Moderns. Translated from the French. With a Reply to some Remarks in a Critique, call'd The Judgment of Pluto, &c. And Two Original Dialogues
by FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bouyer de (1657-1757)
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London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate next Grays-Inn, 1708. Full Calf. Near Fine. First edition of this translation, by John Hughes, superseding that of Dryden, of Nouveaux dialogues des morts. 8vo; [2], l, [2], 209 [1]pp, with a finely engraved frontispiece. Bound in contemporary or slightly later 18th-century Cambridge-style paneled calf, the spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands, with a red leather lettering piece in the second. The joints very skillfully mended, a Near Fine copy, pages bright and fresh. ESTC Citation No. T139460. The Dialogues, modeled on the dialogues of Lucian, unite in conversation figures from antiquity, such as Socrates and Aristotle, with more recent personages, including Erasmus and Montaigne, to discuss the literary and philosophical developments of Fontenelle's day. First published anonymously in 1683, Dialogues des morts and Nouveaux dialogues des morts were Fontenelle's first works and ignited his reputation, which was…
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Dickens: Positively the First Appearance. A Centenary Review with A Bibliography of Sketches by Boz; First Edition
by DARTON, F. J. Harvey (1878-1936) ; [Charles Dickens]
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London: The Argonaut Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing of this consideration of Charles Dickens's first published work. Demy 8vo (214 x 136): x,145,[5]pp, with portrait frontispiece and four further plates on inserted leaves. Addendum slip tipped in preceding p. 143. Publisher's green cloth spine over mottled green paper-covered boards, paper title label printed in back to spine, green textured dust jacket printed in black and priced 7/6. Covers very lightly faded, but a superb, unread example, tightly bound, fresh and bright throughout. Dickens's first published work, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (parody of a party, with wealthy old bachelor forced to spend an evening with disagreeable relatives), first appeared in the December 1833 edition of The Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Politics, Literature, Art, Science, and the Belles Lettres, and then, greatly revised, in Sketches by Boz (Second Series, 1836), as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin." Darton also wrote, with…
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Disquisitions upon the Painted Greek Vases, and their probable connection with the shows of the Eleusian and other mysteries
by CHRISTIE, James (1773-1831)
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London: published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Quarter-Calf. Fine. Greatly revised and expanded Second Edition of Christie's treatise, linking Greek vase shapes and iconography to mystery cults, the Hindu festival of Diwali, and lantern celebrations in China. Demy 4to (270 x 210mm): x,[2],146pp, with sixteen engraved plates (two folding). A. & R. Spottiswoode's imprint appears on verso of title leaf and bottom of final page. Beautifully bound to period style by Fitterer in quarter black calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments divided by gilt-ruled bands, cinnamon leather lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed, additional illustrated title page. Two engraved armorial bookplates relaid from original end sheets, one just "Wolfe," the other Sir John Wolfe Barry, English civil engineer whose most famous project was construction of the Tower Bridge over the Thames (1886-94). A superlative, wide-margined copy on heavy stock, text clean and bright,…
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Disturbing the Peace; A Novel
by YATES, Richard (1926-1992)
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New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing (so stated). 8vo: [10],278pp. Publisher's black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in red and gilt, top edge stained red, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, red end papers, illustrated dust jacket priced $7.95. Fine unread copy in Fine jacket with blurbs by John Ciardi, Tennessee Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., William Styron, Dorothy Parker, and John Thompson. Scarce such. To all appearances, Yates's protagonist, John Wilder, has all the trappings of Sixties success—promising career, loving family, beautiful city apartment and country home—but something deep within this seemingly perfect life has long since soured. More for Revolutionary Road, his debut novel, than for this comparatively ham-fisted effort, Yates is often considered the great forgotten novelist of 20th-century America. Yet he survived by doing corporate PR, writing copy for the Remington Rand Corporation about generations of…
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Divots
by WODEHOUSE, Sir P[elham]. G[renville]., 1881-1975
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New York: George H Doran, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+. First Printing, with the dates 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, and 1927; the Doran colophon; and "Divots—B—Printed in the United States of America" on the copyright page. 8vo: x,[4],15-316pp. Publisher's orange cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in black and stamped with vignette of two golfers, pictorial end papers, top edge stained brown, fore-edge untrimmed. Near Fine or better, the cloth and end papers lightly soiled, with neat inscriptions on front fly-leaf. Lovely copy. Jasen 37a. Collection of golf stories, published in the United Kingdom as "The Heart of a Goof," including: "The Heart of a Goof," "High Stakes," "The Magic Plus Fours," and "Jane Gets off the Fairway". Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Doctor Martino and other stories
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1934. First British Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Impression of Faulkner's second collection of stories (published the same year in New York, by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in both limited and trade issues, the latter of which we also have on offer). One of 1,500 copies (the smallest limitation of any first British printing of Faulkner's books, according to Petersen). Crown 8vo (189 x 118mm): [8]371,[5]pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained scarlet; beige typographic dust jacket printed in scarlet and priced 7s/6d. Neat ownership inscription, mild spotting to edges and end papers, light fading to spine (gilt titles still bright), jacket's spine panel slightly tanned, but an excellent example. Petersen A16.2. Man Working 439. The title story, about the power of platonic love, first appeared in the November 1931 issue of Harper's. In fact, only two of the fourteen stories, "Black Magic" and "The Leg," are new. "Smoke" marks…
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