OCCUPATION: WRITER. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. Twenty-one essays, plays and short fiction, including the forty-page monograph, "Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing and Improper Language." Includes "The Shout," a classic horror story which, as the author notes in his introduction, was reduced from 8,000 to 5,000 words at the insistence of its first publisher (E. Mathews & Marot, for their Woburn Books series); its original full-length draft was subsequently lost. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-73. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 710. Higginson A66b. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#116979).
Price: $75.00
"First published 1951" on copyright page.