THE HAUNTING OF LOW FENNEL. London: C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., [1920]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] 9 [10] 11-252 [253-255: advertisement for "PELMANISM / 'THE LITTLE GREY BOOKS'"] [256: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are used as front and rear free endpapers and paste-downs], original decorated orange cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in black, rear panel advertises "Fry's / Breakfast Cocoa." First edition. Mixed collection of seven weird and criminous tales. "Perhaps the best of Rohmer's several short story collections ..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-130. "His neglected story 'The Valley of the Just' in the collection THE HAUNTING OF LOW FENNEL (1920) is a splendid tale of forgotten horror lurking in a Burmese temple." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 355. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-169. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1409. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1907. Bleiler (1978), p. 169. Reginald 12382. Hubin (1994), p. 695. Spine lean, spine panel a bit sunned, text paper tanned, actually a remarkably nice copy of this cheaply made, elusive book. (#170481).
Price: $1,000.00
"First Published, November, 1920" on copyright page.