first edition
1900 · New York
by Capes, Bernard [Edward Joseph]
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1900. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-318 [319-324: blank] [note: title leaf tipped in; first and last three leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and black, original decorated gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange and gold. First U.S. edition. Mixed collection of seventeen stories including ghostly tales, visionary fantasies, whimsies, and a werewolf story. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 195. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 70. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 132. Bleiler (1978), p. 39. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Owner's signature dated 1902 on front free endpaper and his private bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Top edge of text block a bit dusty, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#117988) (Inventory #: 117988)