Thomson (Christine Campbell, editor) Keep on the Light
£750
London, Selwyn & Blount, [1933].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
The ninth instalment in the Not at Night series assembles fifteen dark tales. The anthology opens with Oscar Cook’s ‘His Beautiful Hands’ and includes stories by Henry S. Whitehead, Mary Elizabeth Counselman and Clark Ashton Smith. Its most notable entry is Robert E. Howard’s historical horror tale ‘Worms of the Earth’, which appears here in its first book form.
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Some foxing; jacket with slight foxing and rubbing, but overall very good.
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