SOMETHING WRONG. London: A. D. Innes & Co., 1893. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-158 [159-160: ads], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear cover, all edges untrimmed. First edition. A presentation copy with signed inscription by Nesbit on the verso of the front free endpaper. A great Nesbit rarity, this collection, issued the same year as her equally rare GRIM TALES, was also issued in both paper and cloth bindings (as here). With the exception of "Hurst of Hurstcote," the eight stories collected here are not supernatural, although all of them are dark psychological stories. "The best of her early stories ... were collected in the rare GRIM TALES and its companion volume, SOMETHING WRONG (both 1893) ..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 299-300. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume III, p. 61. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 379. Private owner's book label on the front paste-down. A tiny bit of foxing to half title leaf, a nearly fine copy. (#171037).
Price: $3,500.00
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