Frontispiece of author. 165 pages plus advertisements. red cloth, lettering in black, endpapers tanned, Very Good copy in the VG striking pictorial d/w which is age darkened to spine and lower panel, missing a triangular section from mid area of spine panel
Lytton (Lord) The Haunted and the Haunters.
£200
First edition.
London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd 1925
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