THE DEAD RIDERS. London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town: Rider and Company, [1952]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-208, publisher's red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Weird novel of intrigue, sorcery, and black magic. "A straight-ahead, fast-paced pulpish adventure yarn with some chilling injections of supernaturalism by an author whose primary writings were a series of 'nonfiction' studies of the occult." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-246. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 140-41. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1251. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 390. Reginald 10917. Spine lean, upper front fore-edge corner tip bumped, a very good copy in very good 10/6 pictorial dust jacket with wear and shallow loss at spine ends and corner tips and internal tape mend at upper spine end. (#171675).
Price: $150.00
"First published 1952" on copyright page.