TONGUES OF FIRE AND OTHER SKETCHES. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-311 [312: blank] [313-320: ads], original pictorial yellow-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. Collects twenty stories and a sketch. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 192. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 215. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-40. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 81. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01410. Ashley A.23.1. A fine copy in very good or better pictorial 7/6 dust jacket (illustrated by Philip Simmonds) with light wear at edges and just a bit of shallow loss at spine ends. A very attractive copy of an uncommon book rarely found in jacket. (#151831).
Price: $2,250.00
No statement of printing. Note: the second printing is so marked.