New York: Robert McBride & Company, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [3-10] 1-291 [292-294: blank], publisher's light blue green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed. First edition. Werewolf in rural Pennsylvania. British novelist and children's book writer Margery Williams' fifth novel, first published in the UK by Duckworth in 1913. In 1922 Williams, under her married name, Bianco, published the children's classic, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT. "Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi has cited this potboiler about a werewolf and its slightly more human brother on the loose in rural Pennsylvania as a possible influence on Lovecraft's tale of an extra-dimensional entity and its slightly more human brother on the loose in rural New England." - Stefan Dziemianowicz. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1718. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 816. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 232. Bleiler (1978), p. 209. Reginald 15374. Hubin (1994), p. 865. Incorrectly recorded in Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 W-656].