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MAN OVERBOARD!
New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1903. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-96 1-[6] ads [7-8: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], three inserted plates, including a sepia-tone photographic portrait of the author employed as frontispiece, title page printed in black and brown, original pictorial beige paper-covered boards, front and spine panels printed in brown, decorated endpapers. First edition. "A sailor who has been washed overboard returns as a revenant. Material horror, but effective." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 447. "... an effective tale of ghostly vengeance." - Sullivan, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 100. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 60-61. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03545. BAL 4216 (not noting this binding variant).
MAN OVERBOARD!
New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1903. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-96 1-[6] ads [7-8: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], three inserted plates, including a sepia-tone photographic portrait of the author employed as frontispiece, title page printed in black and brown, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained green, decorated endpapers. First edition. "A sailor who has been washed overboard returns as a revenant. Material horror, but effective." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 447. "... an effective tale of ghostly vengeance." - Sullivan, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 100. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 60-61. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03545. BAL 4216.
MAN OVERBOARD!
New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1903. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-96 1-[6] ads [7-8: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], three inserted plates, including a sepia-tone photographic portrait of the author employed as frontispiece, title page printed in black and brown, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels printed in black, decorated endpapers. First edition. "A sailor who has been washed overboard returns as a revenant. Material horror, but effective." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 447. "... an effective tale of ghostly vengeance." - Sullivan, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 100. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 60-61. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03545. BAL 4216.
WANDERING GHOSTS ...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1911. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [1-2] 3-302 [303-311: ads] [312-314: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by M. Leone Bracker, original dark green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, fore-edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. The major collection of Crawford's weird tales, issued two weeks earlier in Britain as UNCANNY TALES. "... Crawford's reputation rests mostly on his short horror fiction, collected posthumously as WANDERING GHOSTS ... but written mostly in the 1890s. Paramount among them is the tale of the suicide-haunted stateroom, 'The Upper Berth,' one of the most reprinted of all ghost stories. Others are the vampire story 'For the Blood is Life,' and ghost tales 'The Screaming Skull' and 'The Dead Smile.' Crawford has a skill for raising his fiction to heights of terrifying power and he ranks almost unequaled among the masters of fear." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 59. "... legendary collection of ghost and horror stories ... [Crawford's] short stories ... rank among the best in weird fiction." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 100-01. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-17. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 448. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 2054-58. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-63. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03546. BAL 4249.