THE TOYS OF PEACE AND OTHER PAPERS. By H. H. Munro ("Saki") With a Portrait and a Memoir. London: John Lane The Bodley Head. New York: John Lane Company, 1919. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix] x-xxiv [1-2] 3-303 [304: blank], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), original decorated mauve cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, top edge stained gray, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition, first issue, variant with top edge stained gray and fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Posthumously published collection of short fiction including "The Wolves of Czernogratz" and "The Hedgehog," Saki's only true ghost story. "Although Saki is not primarily a supernatural horror writer, his contributions to the genre are of jewel-like quality." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-180. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 137. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-172. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1433. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 366-67. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1679-83. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 439. Bleiler (1978), p. 173. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Small, faint damp stain on front cover, a very good, attractive copy. (#40915).

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No statement of printing. First issue has gilt spine stamping. Variants: (1) top edge stained gray, and fore and bottom edges untrimmed; (2) top edge stained gray, and fore and bottom edges trimmed.