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BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON.

Shocks.

8vo, publisher’s green cloth; dust

jacket, small puncture to front panel,

minor edgewear, small abrasion to spine

panel, unclipped; ownership inscription

on front flyleaf, discreet booklabel to rear

pastedown. NewYork: E.P. Dutton, (1936)

[500/750]

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

.

A clean, square

copy in unfaded dust jacket. One of 1500

copies printed.A collection of fifteen stories. Scarce

in jacket. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural

Fiction, 197.

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BOILEAU, PIERRE and NAR-

CEJAC, THOMAS.

The Woman Who

Was No More

Translated from the

French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. 8vo, pub-

lisher’s pale blue cloth, spine lettered in

silver, minimal rubbing to spine tips; dust

jacket, unclipped, spine and rear panel

toned, small nicks to spine panel tips, fin-

gersoiling; usual marginal tanning to

leaves, otherwise internally fine; cloth

clamshell box with morocco lettering

label.

NewYork: Rinehart & Company, (1954)

[400/600]

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION

.

Basis for Les

Diabolique, filmed a year after this edition

appeared, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.

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BLAKE,WILLIAM.

The Poems.

Edited by W.B. Yeats. Title in red and

black. Portrait frontispiece. Small 8vo, later

purple morocco, covers decorated with

interlocking teardrop design with red and

maroon onlays, top edges gilt, others

uncut, rejointed with covers laid-down;

bookplate to front flyleaf, card slipcase,

rubbed.

LARGE

-

PAPER EDITION

,

NUMBER

72

OF

200

COPIES

.

London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1893

[350/500]

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