AND THE DARKNESS FALLS

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1946. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 631 pages, G+/G; dark blue pictorial spine, yellow and small red lettering to spine: mild fading to lettering on spine yet remains legible; moderate age-toning to fore-edges of covers and back cover (text legible); chipping with small open tears to edges of covers, including corners; front flap attached to front cover yet fragile; "$2.75" to front flap; DJ protected by mylar; quarter-bound, black cloth spine, green/blue/gray/black pictorial cloth boards, blue title block with bright gold lettering and decorative borders to spine: mild vertical crease to spine; light bumping to corners; olive green top, mild age-toning/wear to text-block; mild age-toning to interior, mild water staining/creasing to corners of occasional leaves; signed by previous owner to front paste-down, Christmas inscription to ffep dated 1946; contains stories by Maurice Level, Oliver Onions, E. F. Benson, Guy Du Maupassant, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Donan Doyle, John Buchan, Algernon Blackwood, August Derleth, F. Tennyson Jesse, L. P. Hartley, H. R. Wakefield, Dorothy Sayers, Somerset Maugham, John Collier, William Butler Yeats, Edgar Allan Poe, Upton Sinclair, Cornell Woolrich, Walter de la Mare, W. W. Jacobs, Thomas Burke, Stephen Crane, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Joseph Conrad, among others; shelved Front Counter. Dupont. (Inventory #: 9-145-1295348)