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Algernon Blackwood. The Listener. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907....
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Algernon Blackwood. The Listener. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907.8vo. Original black cloth, upper with stamped red lettering panel, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device in blind on rear cover.
FIRST EDITION of Blackwood's second book. This collection of nine short stories includes his highly regarded story "The Willows," one of the most powerful of all supernatural tales. H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. It also includes "The Woman's Ghost Story," an early instance of pity replacing fear in a ghostly encounter, and seven other stories. It is found with and without publisher's catalogues inserted at rear, this copy bound without a catalogue at end.
Condition: Slight bumping to spine extremes; a few fore-edges trimmed rough; trace of foxing to text block edges and endpapers (two on title). Overall, a very fine and generally clean copy in an unusually bright and fresh binding.
References: Bleiler, Checklist, p. 24; Bleiler, Supernatural 176.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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