Scott, Jeremy (pseudonym of Kay Dick) (editor). THE MANDRAKE ROOT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FANTASTIC TALES. London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney: Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd., [1946]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-224, original black cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Partially original anthology with mixture of new and reprint fiction collecting twenty-eight stories by James Joyce, Algernon Blackwood, Richard Hughes, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, William Sansom, Olive Schreiner, Stella Benson, E. M. Forster, M. R. James, T. F. Powys, John Atkins, and others. Includes "Changeling" by Dorothy K. Haynes, "Altarwise by Owl-Light" by Pamela Hansford Johnson and "Winter" by Walter de la Mare termed "excellent" by Bleiler (1983). Introduction and useful 4-page "selective" bibliography by Scott. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 211-12. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1451. Bleiler (1978), p. 176. Reginald 12829. Slight spine lean, extremities of cloth worn, gilt spine lettering mostly perished, a good, sound reading copy. (#66570)