THE FOGHORN: STORIES. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-198, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange and light blue. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Atherton dated 1934 on title page. Collects four supernatural tales including Atherton's classic "The Striding Place." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Supernatural Fiction, pp. 23-4. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 64. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 14. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-5. Bleiler (1978), p. 12. Reginald 00609. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-7. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 106. Endpapers foxed, mostly paste-downs, a very good copy with clean binding with bright cover stamping. Enclosed in British 6/- dust jacket with wear at edges, several short tears with internal tape mends, and soiling to rear panel. Robertson, San Francisco, bookseller's book label on rear paste-down. Apparently, book and jacket married. Who knows why. (#170147).
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