AT THE GHOST HOUR: THE FAIR ABIGAIL. Translated from the German ... by Frances A. van Santford. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, MCCCXCIV [1894]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-72 [73-74: blank], decorations by Alice C. Morse, title page printed in red and black, nineteenth-century quarter brown leather and marbled boards, green leather title label affixed to the spine panel, top edge gilt. First U.S. edition. One of four short stories published as AT THE GHOST HOUR. Man encounters malignant ghost (probably a vampire) of a former lover. Belier (1978), p. 99. Not in Reginald (who does record one of the other stories in this series, "The House of the Unbelieving Thomas"). See Bloch (2002) 1485. Morgan 4295. Art nouveau bookplate of Susan Dimok Hutchinson affixed to the front paste-down; bookplate of Robert T. Hurst affixed to the verso of the front free endpaper. Leather scuffed, especially along the outer joints, fore-edge corner tips worn, a very good copy. All the Heyse books in this series are very scarce. (#179012).
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