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SHOCKS
by Blackwood, Algernon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Previous owner's inked name and date to front free endpaper, some tanning to endpapers, small bookstore label affixed to rea
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. First U.S. edition. Previous owner's inked name and date to front free endpaper, some tanning to endpapers, small bookstore label affixed to rear paste-down, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with foxing to the upper edge of the front panel, light shelf wear to spine ends and corner tips, small chip to mid-front panel near spine and some rubbing to spine folds. (20300). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-300 [301-304: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original light green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Collects fifteen stories. The last collection of new material published in Blackwood's lifetime. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 197. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 216. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-36. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01403. Ashley A.41.2.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20300
- Title
- SHOCKS
- Author
- Blackwood, Algernon
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's inked name and date to front free endpaper, some tanning to endpapers, small bookstore label affixed to rea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1936]
- Keywords
- Horror . SC
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Shelf Wear
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