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THE DOLL AND ONE OTHER.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3490 copies printed. Collects two novelettes, "The Doll" and "The Trod." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 199. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, pp. 21-2. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-29. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01380. Ashley A.47.1.
DUDLEY AND GILDEROY: A NONSENSE.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A fantasy.
INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-368 [369-375: ads] [376: blank], original pebbled green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, fore-edge rough trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. According to Ashley's Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography the British and American editions have the same publication date (A.12, p. 55). Collects five stories.
JIMBO: A FANTASY...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-ix [x] [1-2] 3-258 [259-260: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind. First edition. The author's fourth book and first novel, preceded by three collections of short fiction. "Jimbo is one of the best of Blackwood's studies of the peculiar horrors and ecstasies of childhood." – Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 178. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01391. Ashley A.4.1.
THE LISTENER: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-350 [351-352: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front stamped in blind and red, spine stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear cover. First edition. This book is found with and without publisher's catalogues inserted at rear, this copy bound without a catalogue. Blackwood's second book and his second collection of short fiction, containing "The Willows," one of the most powerful of all supernatural tales; "The Woman's Ghost Story," an early instance of pity replacing fear in a ghostly encounter; "Max Hensig...", about a confrontation with a diabolical murderer in which alcohol plays a quasi-mystical role; and six other stories. See Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #176.
SHOCKS.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. 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. First U.S. edition. 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.
TALES OF THE UNCANNY AND SUPERNATURAL.
London and New York: Peter Nevill Limited, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed and dated (1949) by the author on the front free end paper.
TONGUES OF FIRE AND OTHER SKETCHES ...
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-311 [312: blank] [313-320: ads], original pictorial yellow-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. Collects twenty stories and a sketch. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 192. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 215. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-40. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01410. Ashley A.23.1.