WHEN CHURCHYARDS YAWN: FIFTEEN NEW GHOST STORIES. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-287 [288: blank], original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in silver. First edition. Original anthology with fifteen stories by Elizabeth Bowen, L. P. Hartley, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Oliver Onions, and others. "A fine collection with much good material." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 58. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-6. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 40. Bleiler (1978), p. 12. Reginald 00599. Two tiny spots to the front cover near the fore-edge, else a bright, very good copy in a good, rarely seen, 7/6 pictorial dust jacket with wear along top and bottom edges, rubbing along folds and center of spine panel, and an internal tape mend at the top edge of the front spine fold. (#170412).
Price: $850.00
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