THE FOLLY OF EUSTACE AND OTHER STORIES. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-175 [176: blank] [177-186: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], fly leaf at rear, original decorated burgundy cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel ruled in blind, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. The author's first collection of short fiction includes novelette "The Return of the Soul," in which the soul of a murdered cat is reincarnated in a young woman. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 806. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 416. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 203. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 255. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#169976).
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