TWO BOTTLES OF RELISH: A BOOK OF STRANGE AND UNUSUAL STORIES. New York: Dial Press, [1943]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-xi [xii] [1-2] 3-395 [396: blank], illustrations by Carlotta Petrina, original pictorial reddish brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. Collects seventeen stories by Lord Berners, Lord Dunsany, Robert Ayre, Michael Fessier, Flann O'Brien, Anton Chekhov and others, first published, or first published in English, in STORY magazine. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 313. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02256. Penciled signature of A. Langley Searles dated 1943 on front paste-down. Some tanning to endpapers, mostly along gutter margins, a nearly fine copy in good pictorial dust jacket with wear at edges and a big chip from rear panel and rear flap. (#131981).
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