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THE CHEETAH-GIRL.
N.p. [Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, frontispiece illustration by David Johnson, boards stamped in gold, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, black ribbon marker. First edition. One of 99 numbered copies. This privately printed edition was preceded by the 1923 edition "Printed as Manuscript for Private Circulation" in an edition of 20 copies. This edition was editon was released prior to the Tartarus publication THE COLLECTED STRANGE PAPERS OF CHRISTOPHER BLAYRE.
THE STRANGE PAPERS OF DR BLAYRE.
[London]: Philip Allan, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-271 [272: blank], original blue-green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. Enlarged edition. New edition of THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE (1921) with four additional stories. "Collection of stories supposedly 'selected from the unofficial records of the University of Cosmopoli' by its 'sometime registrar' -- the mock introduction is dated 1952 ... The stories (not all supernatural) are satirical, mocking the gentility and earnestness of the academic school of supernatural writing developed by M. R. James ... The ironic wit is not to everyone's taste, but these are among the best satirical weird tales." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-28. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 92-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 204. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 226. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 080. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 60. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 36. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 201. Bleiler (1978), p. 26. Reginald 07140].
THE COLLECTED STRANGE PAPERS OF CHRISTOPHER BLAYRE.
[Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 250 copies printed. Collects seventeen stories, the contents of two story collections, THE STRANGE PAPERS OF DR BLAYRE (1932) and SOME WOMEN OF THE UNIVERSITY: BEING A LAST SELECTION FROM THE STRANGE PAPERS OF CHRISTOPHER BLAYRE ... (1934), plus the rare THE CHEETAH-GIRL (1923).
THE COLLECTED STRANGE PAPERS OF CHRISTOPHER BLAYRE.
[Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects seventeen stories, the contents of two story collections, THE STRANGE PAPERS OF DR BLAYRE (1932) and SOME WOMEN OF THE UNIVERSITY: BEING A LAST SELECTION FROM THE STRANGE PAPERS OF CHRISTOPHER BLAYRE ... (1934), plus the rare THE CHEETAH-GIRL (1923). Limited to 250 copies.