PAUL THE MINSTREL AND OTHER STORIES REPRINTED FROM THE HILL OF TROUBLE AND THE ISLES OF SUNSET. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xiii [xiv] xv [xvi] [1] 2-443 [444], original olive green cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, fore-edge rough trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects nineteen stories which appeared earlier in THE HILL OF TROUBLE (1903) and THE ISLES OF SUNSET (1904). "Much closer to M. R. James than to either brother ... because of the academic, antiquarian tone of the stories. The most notable are collected [in these two collections]." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 106. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-12. Bleiler (1978), p. 20. Reginald 01121. See Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 135. See Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 63. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, lower spine end and lower front corner tip just a bit soft, some foxing to first and last few leaves, a very good copy. (#171887).
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