Usual mild toning to margins; cloth a little bumped and rubbed at extremities, but overall VG.
Heron (E. & H., pseuds Hesketh & Kate O’Brien Prichard) Ghost Stories
£175
London, C.Arthur Pearson, 1916.
First abridged edition. Small 8vo. Original dark grey cloth blocked in black.
An attractive abridgment of the weird & supernatural tales of psychic detective Flaxman Low, written by mother & son team ‘E. & H. Heron’. The stories first appeared in Pearson’s Magazine (1899). Hesketh was a prolific turn-of-the-century author, creator of then then very popular sadistic bandit character Don Q., as noted by Bleiler now “deservedly forgotten”.
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