Item #313006 THE SECOND GHOST BOOK. Cynthia ASQUITH.
THE SECOND GHOST BOOK.

THE SECOND GHOST BOOK.

London: James Barrie, 1952. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth lettered in gold on spine panel. 236 pp. Small Foyles book label to lower edge of front paste-down, ink inscription on front free endpaper dated Christmas, 1952 "To be read at midnight, with appropriate bloodcurlings and shivers". Small dents to upper fore-edge of cloth and edge of spine panel (from bundling?), a very good copy a dust jacket with small chips at edges, one triangular at the spine head about 1-inch deep but not affecting any lettering; price corner clipped. Item #313006

¶ Collects 20 supernatural tales by Walter de la Mare, Mary Fitt, Lord Dunsany, L.A.G. Strong, Nancy Spain, L.P. Hartley and others, with an Introduction by Marjorie Bowen.

Price: $75.00

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