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London: Macmillan Company. G/G Light Wear. Light Foxing To Page Edges. P. O. Name Inside. Pages: 369.. 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover..

London: Macmillan and co., limited, 1933. Hardcover. VG, corners slightly bumped.. Green art deco embosed covers. (ix), 369 pp, [1] p. 20. Contents: The whistle. -- The silver mask. -- The staircase. -- A carnation for an old man. -- Tarnhelm; or, The death of my Uncle Robert. -- Mr. Oddy. -- Seashore macabre. A moment's experience. -- Lilac. -- The oldest Talland. -- The little ghost. -- Mrs. Lunt. -- Sentimental but true. -- Portrait in shadow. -- The snow. -- The ruby glass. -- Spanish dusk.

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO (THE) LTD. FINE WITHOUT D.J.. PUB 1933. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. .

New York: Doubleday Doram and Company, 1933. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket,. New York: Doubleday Doram and Company:, 1933. First edition, Hardcover, Very Good in Very Good dust jacket, 316 pp.<br/> A clean, straight and tight copy with modest spine skew and with sunned spine strip and with previus owner's name neatly written on front free endpaper. Jacket complete with chipping at head and heel of spine panel and with two half-inch chips at head of rear panel.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of sixteen short stories, including "the classic werewolf story 'Tarnhelm'; the oft-anthologized 'The Little Ghost'; 'The Snow', a chilling story of vengeance from beyond the grave; and perhaps the highlight of the collection, 'The Silver Mask', which one critic has called 'a masterpiece, a classic example of how a tale can be truly terrible and ghostly with no ghost and only the wispiest hint of the supernatural.'"-quoted from the current Valancourt Books edition. ix, [1], 369, [1], 2 pages. First edition (first printing with 1933 date on title page and no later printings on copyright page). A very good copy (slight spine lean) in a very good dust jacket priced at 7/6 net. Somewhat musty.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1933. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. ix, 269pp + ii publisher's advertisements at the rear. Red cloth, lettered and ornately ruled in black at the spine. Title page printed in red and black. Top edge lightly spotted and with a tiny bump to the tips of two corners. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, with a tiny area of loss to the head of the spine panel, just impacting the title lettering, and a little very light tanning. The lower corner of the front flap is clipped but the price of 4/6 net remains, possibly suggesting that this is a second state dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced by the publisher. Sixteen stories, including as number of supernatural tales..

London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, 1933. First edition. A near fine copy, some mottling to rear cover in a very good dust jacket, spine panel and edges show age darkening, some light wear to head of spine panel, some light stain spots to lower front panel. (11659). Octavo, [1-2] [i-vi] vii [viii] ix [x] [1-2] 3-369 [370] [371-372: ads], original dark green cloth, front cover stamped in blind, spine stamped in blind and gold. The author's third collection of short fiction, sixteen stories, including several of his best supernatural tales. "Walpole's two strongest stories in the genre are "Tarnhelm; or, The Death of My Uncle Robert," a strangely moving and poignant werewolf tale told from the point of view of a sensitive little boy; and "The Silver Mask," the story of a middle-aged woman's fatal obsession with a sinister and beautiful young man. "The Silver Mask" is in fact, a masterpiece, a classic example of how a tale can be truly terrible and… Read More

NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Embossed blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt. First US edition (stated. ) Cloth edges slightly sunned else tight, square and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is lightly edgeworn with minor foxing. Flap price is $2.50.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London:: Macmillan,, 1933.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Just about fine in a very attractive jacket with a slightly sunned spine and a trace of rubbing to its extremities.. 8vo,.

London: Macmillan And Co., Limited, 1933. First edition. Fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket, with a touch of age darkening to the spine panel and a touch of shelf wear to head of spine panel. (109). Octavo, [1-2] [i-vi] vii [viii] ix [x] [1-2] 3-369 [370] [371-372: ads], original dark green cloth, front cover stamped in blind, spine stamped in blind and gold. The author's third collection of short fiction, sixteen stories, including several of his best supernatural tales. "Walpole's two strongest stories in the genre are "Tarnhelm; or, The Death of My Uncle Robert," a strangely moving and poignant werewolf tale told from the point of view of a sensitive little boy; and "The Silver Mask," the story of a middle-aged woman's fatal obsession with a sinister and beautiful young man. "The Silver Mask" is in fact, a masterpiece, a classic example of how a tale can be truly terrible and ghostly with no ghost and only the wispiest hint of the supernatural. These and fourteen other stories… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Short stories including several supernatural tales. A beautiful copy and uncommon thus.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition, first binding . Hardcover. Some artful stories." Barron: Horror Literature, 3-201. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1653. Bound in dark green cloth with lettering on spine stamped in gilt and lettering and design on front cover stamped in blind. Just a hint of toning to inner margins of the endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket with a hint of toning to edges and spine panel. A superb copy.