London, George C. Harrap & Co, 1935
Twenty-five short stories graphically illustrated by Rackham who is quoted as saying that his illustrations; "were so horrible I was beginning to frighten myself."
First Rackham trade edition, 4to., 12 full-page colour plates and a further 17 black and white ones, faint contemporary ownership name to front free endpaper, original dark blue blind-stamped cloth, wrap-around pictorial dust-jacket, a tad rubbed to extremities, spine slightly browned with ends professionally restored, in all a very good copy.
First Rackham trade edition, 4to., 12 full-page colour plates and a further 17 black and white ones, faint contemporary ownership name to front free endpaper, original dark blue blind-stamped cloth, wrap-around pictorial dust-jacket, a tad rubbed to extremities, spine slightly browned with ends professionally restored, in all a very good copy.
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