NIGHT FEARS AND OTHER STORIES. London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1924]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-220 [221: blank] [222: publisher’s device] [223-224: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Hartley's first book, a collection of seventeen stories including several later reprinted in THE TRAVELLING GRAVE (1948). "Hartley is the master of the double entendre and sinister talk at cross purposes." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 228. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 88. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-80. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 192-93. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-112. Bleiler (1978), p. 94. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Neat owner's signature at top edge of front free endpaper. Free endpapers just a bit tanned, hint of tanning to spine panel, a nearly fine copy. (#171149).
Price: $350.00
"First Published May 1924" on copyright page.