Item #313016 SHUDDERS. A Collection of New Nightmare Tales. Complied by Lady Cynthia Asquith. Cynthia ASQUITH.
SHUDDERS. A Collection of New Nightmare Tales. Complied by Lady Cynthia Asquith.

SHUDDERS. A Collection of New Nightmare Tales. Complied by Lady Cynthia Asquith.

London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., No Date [1929]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Tall octavo, original light blue pictorial cloth titled and decorated in black on spine and front panel. 287pp. Small bookseller's ticket to lower edge of inner rear cover, light foxing to page edges, spine slightly leaned. A very good clean copy of a very scarce book. Item #313016

¶ Cynthia Asquith's second supernatural anthology, collecting 15 stories by E. F. Benson, L. P. Hartley, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood Somerset Maugham and others, including the first book appearance of the M. R. James story RATS, first published in magazine form earlier in the same year.

Price: $350.00

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