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THE FACE AND THE MASK.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1895]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-250 [251: ads] [252: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by A. Hencke, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, silver top edge, other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A scarce collection of short fiction including "The Doom of London," a catastrophe story, and "The Great Pegram Mystery, a Sherlock Holmes parody. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-8 and (1981) 1-14. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 126 and 127. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 046. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 55. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 51].
FROM WHOSE BOURNE.
New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1896]. Small octavo, pp. [3-7] 8-210 [text complete despite gap in pagination], four inserted plates with illustrations by Frank M. Gregory, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained silver, other edges rough trimmed. First U.S. (and first separate) edition. The title story, a short novel, is a supernatural detective tale in which a man recruits a great detective from the spirit world to solve the crime his wife is suspected of committing. "Barr's most intriguing work ..." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 27. Barr, a Scot who grew up in Canada and later moved to England, was editor of The Idler, which he co-founded with Jerome K. Jerome. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-15. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Reginald 00890. Hubin (1979), p. 24. (dropped from Hubin 1994)].
THE TRIUMPHS OF EUGÈNE VALMONT.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-330 [331-336: Ads], original black cloth, front stamped in tan and white, spine stamped in white. First U.S. edition, first printing. Collects seven stories with French master detective Eugène Valmont. [Reference: Queen's Quorum 35. Hubin, p. 52. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone].