THE DREAM DETECTIVE: BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE METHODS OF MORIS KLAW

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First U.S. and first expanded edition. Gold lettering on spine panel a bit dull, a nearly fine copy in a very good, bright, pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by Arthur Schwieder) with a closed tear and chips at upper spine panel, small chip at lower left front corner at spine, light wear at corner tips with a little loss, rear panel has a large chip at the lower left and several tears and chips to rear flap fold. All title lettering to spine complete. The jacket is scarce. (30804). Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-309 [310-312: blank] [note: title leaf is a tipped in singleton; last leaf is a blank], title printed in orange and black, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. This edition adds one story ("The Chord in G") to the collection first published by Jarrolds in 1920. It features the occult detective Moris Klaw, who reads minds by sleeping at the scene of the crime. "The Moris Klaw stories are cleverly plotted and crisply told, and they have dated very little over they have dated very little over the years. Klaw himself is a fascinating creation. The book has been reprinted several times, most recently in 1977, but deserves to be more widely known." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 691-92. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1407. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 819. Hubin (1994), p. 695. Queen's Quorum 64. Bleiler (1978), p. 192. Reginald 12372.