SINISTER STORIES. By Jasper John [pseudonym]. London: Henry Walker, [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-171 [172: blank] [173-176: ads], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition, first printing. Supernatural horror stories, slight and crudely written; notwithstanding, Montague Summers reprinted two in his SUPERNATURAL OMNIBUS (1931). An uncommon book, though not as rare as her subsequent collection TALES OF TERROR (1931). Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 138. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 123. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 375. Bleiler (1978), p. 110. Reginald 07901. Hubin (1994), p. 444. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, small patch of discoloration to front cover, a very good copy. (#152635).
Price: $250.00
"First published in 1930" on copyright page.