![]() ![]() An anthology of some popular spooky tales by various authors, compiled by V. A scarce first World's Classics edition of this collection of stories concerning ghosts and the supernatural. ![]() Oxford : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924. James own "Casting the Runes," (although James's introduction is even handed and delighted with his task, in an analytical fashion, he barely mentions his own contribution, instead making clear his admiration for… ![]() Fifteen justly feted supernatural tales including Stevenson's "The Body Snatchers", and M.R. Internally clean, and as always produced to a very aesthetically pleasing standard for a tiny book intended to travel with one. The whole can be described as very good mainly because dustwrappers are the exception rather than the rule on 93 year old copies of the Oxford World Classics. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in very dulled gilt to spine, minor shelfwear and a little scuffing, strong and tight in a clean example of the dustwrapper with some chipping and loss to extremities, closed tears and small sections of loss to spine ends and a general fragility. Second World Classics Printing (the first being 1924). Oxford: Humphrey Milford at University Press, 1925. ![]()
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