SWITCH ON THE LIGHT. London: Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd, n.d. [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-256 [note: first leaf is a blank used as front paste-down], true endpapers at rear, original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by Frank Belknap Long, August Derleth and Mark Schorer, Amelia Reynolds Long, Edmond Hamilton and others, some first published in WEIRD TALES. Includes "The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Bishop (with anonymous collaboration of H. P. Lovecraft) and "The Rats in the Walls" by H. P. Lovecraft. The sixth volume in the important "Not at Night" anthology series. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1592. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-305. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14089. Foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves and rear endpapers, top edge dusty, a very good copy in good pictorial dust jacket (priced "2/-" on spine panel and listing the books in the series through the fifth title of the series on rear panel) with wear and shallow loss along top and bottom edges, 15 mm closed tear at lower front spine fold, and dust soiling to spine and rear panels. (#156862).
Price: $750.00
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