SNAKE-BITE AND OTHER STORIES. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1919]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 9-337 [338: blank] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], original yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Collects the title novella and five shorter stories. Mixed collection including several tales of supernatural persecution, "The Lighted Candles" an effective horror story set among Russian expatriates. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 811. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 418. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 203. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-101. Bleiler (1978), p. 99. Reginald 07175. Top edge of text block age-darkened, else a fine copy in good pictorial dust jacket with shelf wear along top and bottom edges, several small chips and closed tears, and internal tape reinforcement along top and bottom edges plus two small external tape reinforcements, one at top edge of rear panel, the other at bottom edge of rear panel. The pictorial front panel is quite attractive. Quite scarce in jacket. (#170454).
Price: $350.00
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