ADAM & EVE & PINCH ME: TALES. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXXII [1922]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-8] 9-331 [332: blank], publisher's decorated boards with gray cloth shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, top edge stained orange, other edges rough trimmed. First combined edition. Collects twenty-two stories, the contents of ADAM & EVE & PINCH ME and CLORINDA WALKS IN HEAVEN (The Golden Cockerel Press, 1921, 1922), Coppard's first two story collections. ADAM & EVE & PINCH ME "shows Coppard at his best, with original themes, remarkable renderings of the speech and thought of rural England, and a bizarre humor." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 421. CLORINDA WALKS IN HEAVEN includes the well-known title story and "The Elixir of Youth," "both excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 422. Barron, ed., Fantasy Literature 3-87. Bleiler, ed., Supernatural Fiction Writers Fantasy and Horror, pp. 524-26. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 245 and 247. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 544. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 146. Bleiler (1978), p. 48. Reginald 03401 (citing only the Golden Cockerel ADAM & EVE). Boards lightly worn at corner tips, a very good copy. (#177501).
Price: $100.00
"Published, May, 1922" on copyright page.