254 pages. oatmeal coloured cloth, lettering in black, front endpapers, rear pastedown and last page of text slightly tanned and foxed, no rear endpaper present as published, name to front endpaper in ink, otherwise a Very Good copy in VG d/w which is tanned to spine, missing a small section from middle of the spine, some small closed tears along edges, some loss and tears at top edge of spine, some age darkening to lower panel, otherwise a nice example of this scarce d/w. priced at 2 shillings.
Thomson (Christine Campbell, editor) Keep on the Light.
£595
Tales of Thrill
and Horror Selected and Arranged By Christine Campbell Thomson. First edition.
London, Selwyn & Blount, [1933]
This is No 9 in the Famous Not At Night Series of books.
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