Horsnell (Horace) Castle Cottage
£395
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1940.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A prolific playwright, drama critic and author active in English literary circles from around 1910. This ghost story is one of the author’s few dalliances with the supernatural.
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A little minor spotting to extremities; cloth very good; jacket worn at spine ends and fore-corners with loss.
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