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Farnol (Jeffrey) The Shadow and other stories
£75
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., n.d. [c.1931].
‘Library Edition’. 8vo. Original dark red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A collection of Farnol’s shorter fiction, originally published in 1929; including the tale ‘Black coffee’ with it is Ancient Egyptian themes. A popular author for weird & supernatural anthologies. Scarce in the jacket. Stories featured:
The Shadow.–Captain Hector.–Retribution.–The heir.–Black coffee.–Upon a day.–A boy and the man.–An episode.–Jasper Railton.–The cupboard.–Fortune’s fool.–A change of mind.–Journey’s end.–The great quietude.–Sir Pertolepe the Red.–The divine Phyllidia.–A woman’s reason.
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Some light foxing, neat contemporary ink name to front pastedown; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped; jacket with some offsetting to lower panel, minor creasing to inside front flap, but overall very good.
Jacket design by J. Morton Sale.
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