THE SILVER THORN: A BOOK OF STORIES. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. Large octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-x 1 [2] 3-371 [372: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], title page printed in red and black, original blue boards with tan cloth shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, blue endpapers, all edge untrimmed, extra spine label tipped in at rear. First edition. Limited to 175 copies signed by Walpole. Collects fifteen stories including three weird tales; "The Tarn," "Major Wilbraham" and "The Tiger." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 178. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-201. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1652. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 448. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 481. Lower corner tips worn, a near fine copy. (#96020).
Price: $75.00
No statement of printing on copyright page. 'THIS IS ONE OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE / LARGE PAPER COPIES PRINTED IN OCTOBER 1928" on limitation page.