Wheatley (Dennis, editor) A Century of Horror
£325
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First edition. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A handsome anthology, featuring contributions by Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Burke, F. Marion Crawford, James Hilton, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, and Dennis Wheatley himself.
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Book itself very good; jacket rather chipped and torn at spine and fore-corners, otherwise very good.
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