247 pages. red cloth, lettering in black, some patches of fading to covers, endpapers slightly tanned and foxed, pages of text slightly tanned throughout (mainly page margins) due to the cheap quality paper used, name in ink to front endpaper and the ‘67’ written on front pastedown, generally a near very good copy in very scarce d/w which is age darkened to spine, missing small sections from top of spine, there are some tears along spine panel/rear panel join, the d/w is also chipped along edges and generally age darkened, else a decent example of this elusive
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Sinclair (May) Uncanny Stories
£525
Third edition.
London, Hutchinson, Not dated but likely to have been published in the
1920’s.
Illustrations by Jean de Bosschere. Uncanny Tales was first published in the UK in 1923. An important collection of supernatural
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