Tree (Sir Herbert Beerbohm) Nothing Matters.
£750
First edition.
London, Cassell, 1917.
A collection of eleven tales, one of which is a locked room mystery and two of which have definite weird content. Not mentioned by Bleiler.
“The Mystery of Howard Romaine”
involves the disappearance of a coffin and a body from a locked room (Adey p.300)
The Cuckoo Clock” is a tale of delirium involving the transmigration of a soul into a cuckoo clock. “The Fatal Fairy” is about a man who kidnaps a fairy at dawn, whereupon it turns into a monstrous baby vulture — until he releases it a day later.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor and theatre manager. This collection appeared in the year of his death.
Very scarce in jacket.
In stock
VG+/VG+ – contents free of inscriptions, foxing to preliminary and final leaves, fore-edge also foxed. The very scarce jacket has a small piece of loss on the spine and a v-shaped chip at junction of back panel and top of spine but is otherwise complete and unrestored. Correctly priced at 6/- on spine.
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