Buy this book on-line DALE, HARRISON: : GREAT GHOST STORIES - Collected and edited with an intro on the ghost story in English & foreign Literature.**LONDON.HERBERT JENKINS,1930.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn and with the publisher's price
on the dw/dj's spine/backstrip,there is no clip to inner flap.Yellow with black ink printed letters dw/dj with spine/backstrip and minimal internal edge darkening.Light creasing with closed tears to top edge and some minimal loss to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Bottom edge dw/dj with considerably less creasing and fewer closed tears or nicks.Green cloth bds with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain uncoloured,stamped letters to upper bd and plain white eps with approximately a 2" vertical band of foxing where the inner dw/dj flap doesn't reach the inner hinge on the ffe,fault repeated to rear free endpaper.Despite the presence of dw/dj, cloth bds are overall faded/bleached with very light bumping and creasing to head+ foot of spine/backstrip.Top edge olivine with fore-edge lightly aged apart from top 2.5" which is slightly marked/grubbed; contents bright,tight and clean and virtually unfoxed,apart from eps.
Uncommon for dw/dj to be present with a book from this era.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,399pp [paginated] includes 5-28pp intro by DALE.
An anthology of 15 collected ghost stories from such contributors as Sir Walter Scott,Mrs Gaskell,Fitz-James O'Brien,Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton,J.S. Le Fanu,Lafcadio Hearn(2),R.L.Stevenson, Edith Wharton,F.Marion Crawford,Theophile Gautier,Gustavo Adolfo Becquer,Pedro de Alarcon.The two translations are of Teig O'Kane and the Corpse (Irish) and The Corpse the Blood Drinker (Chinese) by Dr Douglas Hyde and George Soulie respectively.
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