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DASHIELL HAMMETT : Modern Tales of Horror. Selected and with a four-page introduction by Dashiell Hammett

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1932

First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition which appeared under the title 'Creeps by Night', and included two stories which are omitted from this English edition. 8vo. 448pp. An un-noted variant binding of red cloth lettered in black at the spine and without the tipped-in slip noting the prior publication details of the John Collier story (Layman notes the more common binding of black cloth with orange backstrip lettering). The top edge dust soiled, and with some uneven discolouration to the cloth. Some spotting to half a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and the faint ghost of a former owner name to the front free endpaper. A good copy in a quite poor example of the uncommon dust wrapper (again, a variant, printed on yellow paperstock but with all of the lettering in black, not black and red. The original price of 5/= net is printed to the spine panel, under which is a green sticker with the text "Offered at 2'-"). The dust wrapper is toned, soiled, nicked, torn and chipped. Includes macabre contributions by William Faulkner ('A Rose for Emily'), John Collier ('Green Thoughts'), André Maurois (;The House;), Peter Fleming (;The Kill;), Philip MacDonald (;Ten O'Clock'), L.A.G.Strong ('Breakdown'), Conrad Aiken ('Mr. Arcularis'), H.P.Lovecraft ('The Music of Erich Zann'), and ten others, all bar the Collier story hitherto unprinted in bookform. Layman A5.2.a / Bonnell B34b. A respectable copy of this un-noted variant, which is difficult to locate in any dust wrapper.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Poor

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