SHOCKS. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-300 [301-304: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original light green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. 1500 copies printed and bound. Collects fifteen stories. The last collection of new short fiction published in Blackwood's lifetime. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 197. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 216. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-36. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01403. Ashley A.41.2. Previous owner's name and date in ink front free endpaper. Some tanning to endpapers, small bookstore label affixed to rear paste-down, a nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with foxing to the upper edge of the front panel, light wear to spine ends and corner tips, tiny chip to front panel near spine fold, and some rubbing along spine folds. (#156640).
Price: $350.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.