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    Flannery O'Connor

    Modern Literature

    O’Connor (Flannery) The Artificial Nigger and other tales.

    £425

    First edition.
    London. Neville Spearman, 1957
    A well regarded collection of short stories mainly set in the American South and most of them among poor people. The short story that gives the book refers to statues popular in the Jim Crow-era Southern United States, depicting grotesque minstrel-like characters.

    MP Shiel

    Weird & Supernatural

    Shiel (M.P.) Children of the Wind.

    £650

    First edition.
    London. Grant Richards, 1923
    A lost race novel in which a lost heiress takes over an African tribe. Very scarce in wrapper.

    William Fryer Harvey

    Weird & Supernatural

    Harvey (William Fryer) Midnight House and other tales.

    £475

    First edition.
    London. Dent, 1910
    The author’s first short story collection containing some fine examples of ghost and horror stories including the much anthologised tale, ‘August Heat’ (Shadows in the Attic p.247).

    JG Lockhart

    Modern Literature

    Lockhart (J.G.) Strange Adventures of the Sea.

    £125

    First edition.
    London. Philip Allan, 1925
    Anthology covering amongst other things murders, mutinies, maroonings and other tales of horror on the high seas. Scarce in jacket.