MADAM JULIA'S TALE AND OTHER QUEER STORIES. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-12 [13-16] 17-288, original black cloth, spine panel stamped in light green. First edition. Collects nine weird tales. The first four "appear to offer support to the belief in continuance of human personality after death" while the rest narrate "instances of queer behaviour among the living" (from the author's note). Of interest also is the author's four-page prefatory note, in which she traces something of the origin and rationale of these stories. "Nothing is quite so bad as a bad ghost story. It is my belief that all the good ghost stories are true." Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 186. Bleiler (1978), p. 171. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). NCBEL IV 726. A tight, square, nearly fine copy in 7/6 printed dust jacket with 10 mm chip form the lower spine end with loss of publisher's imprint and tanning to spine panel and along a narrow strip of the bottom edge. An uncommon book seldom found in its jacket. (#171229).
Price: $750.00
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