THE ARM OF MRS. EGAN AND OTHER STORIES. London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A posthumous collection of sixteen previously unpublished weird tales by the author of "The Beast With Five Fingers." Those comprising the section "Twelve Strange Cases" are interrelated stories told by a nurse who has witnessed or taken part in these peculiar happenings in the course of her professional life. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 88-9. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 769. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 193-94. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-81. Reginald 37825 (citing the later U.S. edition). A fine copy in very good, bright dust jacket with wear at head and tail of spine panel and corners and several short closed tears, longest 17 mm at lower front spine fold. (#72847).
Price: $100.00
"First published 1951" on copyright page.