MORE TALES OF THE UNEASY. London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-xxvii [xxviii] xxix [xxx] [1-2] 3-287 [288: printer's imprint], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. A variant (probably later) binding. Contains one short story and three novellas, as well as an interesting twenty-page preface by the author. "Her themes and plots are traditional, with recognizable Victorian ghosts. Her individual treatment of this cliched material, however, is fresh and original, especially in "The Corsican Sisters," a short novel [in the present collection] ... about an avenging supernatural eye." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature, 3-113. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 99. Barron (ed), Horror Literature, 3-99. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 488. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 214-15. Bleiler (1978), p. 105. Reginald 07615. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down; early owner's name and address rubber-stamped on rear paste-down. Cloth lightly worn along outer front hinge, a very good copy. (#170043).
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"First published 1925" on copyright page.