EVEN A WORM. London: Arthur Barker Ltd, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-302 [303-304] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original blue-green cloth, spine panel stamped in dark blue. First edition. The animal kingdom unifies to destroy man. "Revolt of the animals, much like Arthur Machen's THE TERROR, but less mystical ... Capable, but without the strange luminosity that characterizes Machen's work." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 269. Reprinted in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1945. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 69. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 39. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 127. Bleiler (1978), p. 29. Reginald 01781. Touch of wear to cloth along bottom edge, a near fine, bright copy in very good yellow printed dust jacket with some shelf wear at edges, several short tears, some age-darkening to spine panel, and general light dust soiling. Neat signature and New York city address of "L. Searles" [A. Langley Searles?] on front paste-down. (#74738).
Price: $350.00
"First Published in 1936" on copyright page.