SUNNY STORIES AND SOME SHADY ONES. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-298 [note: first leaf is a leaf of ads] + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "April, 1891" inserted at rear, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Frederick Barnard, original decorated purple cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, decorated endpapers. First edition. A collection of sketches and short fiction by a prolific author and journalist whose body of fiction included forty-nine crime and sensation novels. Payn's "first major success was LOST SIR MASSINGBERD (1864) ... The story of a wicked baronet who disappears ... In general, Payn's fiction is marked by a love of sensational plot and excessively melodramatic complication." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 494. Hubin (1994), p. 632. Wolff 5467. NCBEL III 958. Slight spine lean, cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips, else a bright, very good copy. (#128337).
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