Gordon (John) The House on the Brink
£250
London, Hutchinson, 1970.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A Fenland ghost story for young adults, widely regarded by admirers of that tradition as one of the finest post-James novels in the ghost-story genre, ranked alongside Fritz Leiber’s Our Lady of Darkness by James scholar Rosemary Pardoe.
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Gift inscriptions to front free endpaper; bump to top edge of lower board; jacket clipped to inside front flap, edge wear, but overall very good.
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