A slightly better than VG copy in the primary state binding. Some minor rubbing to extremities and slight bumping at spine tips and corners. Contents are generally clean with some modest toning due to poor quality of paper used.
Harvey (William Fryer) Midnight House and other tales.
£475
First edition.
London. Dent, 1910
The author’s first short story collection containing some fine examples of ghost and horror stories including the much anthologised tale, ‘August Heat’ (Shadows in the Attic p.247).
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