FANTASTICS AND OTHER FANCIES ... Edited by Charles Woodward Hutson. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] [1-2] 3-241 [242] [243: blank] [244: colophon], title page printed in blue and black, original blue boards with tan shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 550 numbered copies. Weird sketches, Hearn's "impressions of the strange life of New Orleans," published in the DAILY CITY ITEM and the TIMES-DEMOCRAT between 1879 and 1884. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 789. Bleiler (1978), p. 97. Reginald 07008. BAL 7955. Just a touch of rubbing to boards, a nearly fine copy in worn paper slipcase. (#164059).
Price: $150.00
"Published November 1914" on copyright page. "FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY / NUMBERED COPIES PRINTED AT / THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE / IN OCTOBER, 1914 / NUMBER __" on colophon page.