THE SMOKING LEG AND OTHER STORIES. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-296 [note: title leaf is a tipped in single leaf], title page printed in green and black, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green, top edge stained yellow green. First U.S. edition. Metcalfe's first book, collecting eighteen stories including the classic horror tale "The Smoking Leg." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-147. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1168. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 156. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 290-91. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-179. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 364. Bleiler (1978), p. 138. Reginald 10083. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (striking illustration by Juan Oliver on the front panel) with tiny chip from upper spine end, 30 mm closed tear along front spine fold, and light wear, 15 mm closed tear at lower spine end, and some mild dust soiling. A fresh, attractive example of this scarce jacket. (#107057).
Price: $450.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.