{"product_id":"the-collected-stories-of-oliver-onions-ivor-nicholson-and-watson-first-edition-1935","title":"The Collected Stories of Oliver Onions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eONIONS, Oliver. The Collected Stories of Oliver Onions.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1935. First edition, first printing of this increasingly scarce work; with the original price-clipped (to front flap) dust jacket (but priced to spine).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher's black cloth binding, with silver decoration and lettering to the front cover and spine, with the original jacket. A very good copy, with the corners a tad bumped and the spine tips crushed, a little foxing to the closed text block and prelims, and a small pencilled inscription to the front free endpaper; else a clean and uninscribed copy. In a jacket worn at the extremities with several chips and short closed tears, minuscule loss to the bottom of the spine, slight tanning to the spine, staining to the bottom, and a few marks in places. Still a very good copy in the rare dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Onion's ghostly fiction is characterized by psychological realism and an unusual elegance. [...] In Onions' ghost stories, the theme of frustrated love is central, as is a concern for ancestral memory and reincarnation. Why Onions was attaracted to such themes is not known; he is overdue for a revival, and a lengthy study of his work is much needed. His best stories represent the psychological ghost story at its height.\" (The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 310).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54408340472147,"sku":null,"price":700.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/1935-The-Collected-Ghost-Stories-of-OLIVER-ONIONS-Ivor-Nicholson-FIRST-EDITION_1.webp?v=1785061598","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/the-collected-stories-of-oliver-onions-ivor-nicholson-and-watson-first-edition-1935","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}