GREAT GHOST STORIES. Collected and Edited, with an Introduction on the Ghost Story..
first edition
1930 · London
by Dale, Harrison (editor)
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-399 400: blank], original sage green cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained green. First edition. Anthology with a nice selection of old chestnuts (such as Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale" and Crawford's "The Upper Berth") as well as more out-of-the-way fare (such as "The Cedar Closet" by Lafcadio Hearn, translations of stories by Becquer and Pedro de Alarcon). "A good selection of classics, with Dale's usual perceptive introduction; strong compliment of Victorian material." - Robert Knowlton. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 466. Bleiler (1978), p. 55. Reginald 03750. Free endpapers tanned, a very good copy with clean, bright binding. (#115096) (Inventory #: 115096)