REDGAUNTLET. A TALE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By the Author of "Waverley" Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea -- Chestnut Street, 1824. Octavo, two volumes: pp. [1-2] [1-3] 4-288; [1-4] [1] 2-321 [322: blank], both half title present. contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather title and number pieces affixed to spine panels, marbled endpapers. First U.S. edition. Includes ""Wandering Willie's Tale," Scott's best supernatural story, long accounted one of the early masterpieces of the English short story. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1454. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, pp. 174-175. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 372. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 262-65. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 443. Bleiler (1978), p. 176. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 210. NCBEL III 674. Upper spine ends chipped, calf quite rubbed but hinges holding tight, some tanning to text paper, a sound, good copy. (#167367).
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