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ASQUITH, Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn (Compiled by)

The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny

The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny

London: Hutchinson and Co., [Undated]

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The Ghost Book: Sixteen New Stories of the Uncanny. Compiled by Lady Cynthia Asquith. London: Hutchinson and Co., [Undated].

"One of the most distinguished series of ghost story anthologies in this century." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 14.

Sized 24 x 16 cm. Pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-318 [319: printer's imprint] [320: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank].

Includes "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence, as well as stories by May Sinclair, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Walter de la Mare, Oliver Onions, Mary Webb, and others.

Condition

Publisher's original cloth binding with blindstamped decoration and lettering to front board and spine. Externally in good condition, however with discolouration and tanning to spine, wear to extremities and bumping to spine tips. Slightly grubby and spotted overall, as pictured. Foxing to edges. Binding nice and square and pages well (albeit not very tightly) bound. Foxing to some pages, including some larger spots of foxing sporadically. Small name inscription in pen to FFEP. A nice example.

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