COLIN. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-334 [335-336: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in dark green. First U.S. edition. One long novel in two parts (continued in COLIN II). A deal with the Devil in Elizabethan times enhances Stanier fortunes materially, but not spiritually over succeeding centuries. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 32. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 143. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01125. A near fine, bright copy in good four-color pictorial dust jacket (with illustration by A. D. Rahn) with shelf wear at edges, short closed tear and associated shallow V-chip at top edge of front panel, and shallow damp stain along lower edge of rear panel. Overall, a fairly attractive example of this uncommon jacket with bright pictorial front panel. (#8923).
Price: $250.00
First printing has "GHD" monogram on copyright page.