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Algernon Blackwood. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906....
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Algernon Blackwood. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories. London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906.8vo. With 31 pp. publisher's advertisements at end dated January 1907. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, front panel stamped in black, red and white, gilt-lettered on spine.
FIRST EDITION of the author's first book. "The first collection by one of the great English writers of supernatural fiction" (Barron).
Condition: Minor rubbing to extremities; a few minor bumps; very minor rubbing or soiling to rear cover; some light foxing to text block edges; front hinge just starting; endpapers lightly discolored. Some light foxing to title and preliminaries (and occasionally mostly marginal within). Overall, a bright copy of a very scarce book.
References: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26; Bleiler, Checklist (1978), p. 24; Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 175; Reginald 01383; Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-30.
Provenance: J. Timothy Kenrick (bookplate). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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