Sechrist, Elizabeth Hough (editor). THIRTEEN GHOSTLY YARNS. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith-Company, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix] x [11-13] 14-240, uncredited illustrations in the text, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. Second edition, revised. First published in Philadelphia in 1932 by Roland Swain. An anthology of classic ghost stories, some with abridgment by Sechrist, marketed as a children's book. "In a few instances there have been certain words, sentences, and occasionally paragraphs omitted from the original versions of these stories." - author's "preface," p. viii. This edition drops two stories,"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving and "Thrawn Janet" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and adds two, "The Spectre Bridegroom" by Washington Irving and "The Soul of the Great Bell" by Lafcadio Hearn. Sechrist also published a book called LITTLE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1934). Bleiler (1978), p. 177 (citing the 1932 edition). Reginald 12856. Some tanning to endpapers, a very good copy in very good pictorial dust jacket. (#114724)