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£525

London, Richard Bentley, 1872.

8vo. Original pictorial colour-printed wrappers.

Contains: Sir C. L. Young ‘A Debt of Honour. A Ghost Story’; T. H. S. Escott ‘Artful Creature’; Captain Maine Read ‘The Prairie Apparition’; Shirley Brooks ‘Charming a Dragon’; Le Fanu’Dickon the Devil; F. C. Burnard ‘No Rose Without a Thorn: A Story of a Bayswater Bouquet’; W. W. Fenn ‘A Waif from the Sea’; A. E. T. Watson, Huntingcrop Hall’. ‘Dickon the Devil’ is a supernatural short story about a ghost living at an old house with an idiot living on the land.
An amazing survival.

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A former owner has reinforced the spine with a narrow paper overlay strip which has caused the top two inches of the wrapper to separate along the joint.

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