Service (Robert W.) House of Fear
£350
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1927.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket.
A remarkably scarce and obscure weird-mystery thriller by Scottish-Canadian ‘Bard of the Yukon’. Unfortunately the jacket would appear to have resided on a bookshelf in the House of Fear for a tad too long due to its traumatised condition, but rare nevertheless!
In stock
Inscription to owner on half-title, one page creased, previous owner’s ink-stamped name to front pastedown, free endpaper and fore-edge of text-block; small section of jacket’s reinforcing paper adhered to upper cover of binding, mild rubbing to extremities; jacket partly reinforced but in poor condition, with sections missing, creasing, stains and chips, reinforcements visible at spine and upper fore-edge.
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