Blackwood (Algernon) Episodes Before Thirty
£225
London, Cassell, 1923.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 15/.
The early autobiography of legendary weird fiction author Algernon Blackwood, describing the author’s life, adventures and misadventures in North America between his twentieth and thirtieth years. Uncommon in the dust-jacket. Precedes the US limited edition (1924).
In stock
Book VG+; jacket with usual marking and dust-soiling, but overall VG-.
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