Marsh (Richard) The Seen and the Unseen
£450
London, Methuen, 1900.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
Weird and supernatural tales by Richard Marsh, author of The Beetle (1897), the novel that at first outsold Dracula. They include “A Psychological Experiment”, “The Photographs”, with its ghostly prison portraits, and “The Houseboat”, in which a holidaying couple witness the re-enactment of a murder. “Marsh” was the pseudonym of Richard Heldmann (1857–1915), a convicted forger turned prolific author and grandfather of Robert Aickman. Not reprinted for over a century after 1900
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Some foxing, endpapers browned, previous owner’s name to front pastedown; cloth slightly softened at head of spine, minor rubbing to extremities, but overall very good.
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