Buy this book on-line DALBY**, RICHARD - Edited by: : THE VIRAGO BOOK OF GHOST STORIES: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - VOLUME TWOLONDON.VIRAGO PRESS Limited,1991. ISBN 1853814547.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour portrait painting detail (Violet,Duchess of Rutland,by Sir James Jebusa Shannon) illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,with blue and white lettering; with negligible shelf -wear and creasing to edges and corners - an internal+external sellotape repair to closed tear to bottom edge of front inner flap of dw/dj - otherwise no other nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/ backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,the majority of creasing is to top edges of dw/dj.Rear,inner dw/dj flap has an accidental,slightly diagonal, vertical crease to it's length.Top edge slightly aged with some minimal sporadic dust-soiling but generally bright and clean,fore-edges similar; contents bright,
tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,
publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xvpp+1-318pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,editor preface,intro by Sara Maitland,27 ghost stories by 27 different women authors,and 5pp notes on authors' to rear.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and a contents list/table.
The first volume of 'The Virago Book of Ghost Stories' met with huge acclaim. Following its outstanding success,this further volume offers yet more deliciously chilling tales.
A.L. Barker,A.S Byatt,Richmal Compton, Antonia Fraser,Celia Fremlin,Penelope Lively,Daphne du Maurier,Ruth Rendell and Jean Rhys are amongst the writers whose stories reveal the extraordinary range and development of a genre that has thrilled readers for over two hundred years.Here lost loves,past emnities and unwanted memories mingle with the inexplicable as unquiet souls return to repay kindnesses, settle scores and haunt the imagination. Featuring some of the finest writers of the 20thC ghost story,this is an absorbing,unsettling and irresistible read.
Dim the lights and welcome the supernatural . . .
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