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FOR MAURICE: FIVE UNLIKELY STORIES.
London: John Lane: The Bodley Head Limited, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi-viii] ix-li [lii] [1-2] 3-223 [224: blank] 1-4: ads, original decorated olive-green cloth, front panel stamped in blind and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained olive-green, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's third and last collection of weird fiction, this one dedicated to Maurice Baring. It includes "Tanhuser and the Gods," one of the finest humorous fantasies, "Winthrop's Adventure," "The Virgin of the Seven Daggers," and two others, as well as a long, interesting introduction on the sources for the stories. Lee's weird fiction earned the praise of Montague Summers who equated her talent to that of M. R. James. "Lee's stories are really in a category by themselves. Intelligent, amusingly ironic, imaginative, original, they deserve more than the passing attention that they have attracted." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 256-57. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 114. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-48. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 991. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-141. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 326. Bleiler (1978), p. 121. Reginald 08777. NCBEL III 1445.
THE SNAKE LADY AND OTHER STORIES... Edited and with an Introduction by Horace Gregory.
New York: Grove Press, [1954]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects eight stories. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 114. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 256-57. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-145. Reginald 08783.
THE EXPERIENCES OF FLAXMAN LOW. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. Octavo, cloth. Reprint. Limited to 500 copies. Collects the twelve Flaxman Low psychic detective ghost stories first published in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE in 1898 and 1899. New introduction by editor Jack Adrian. The first book edition of these stories, GHOSTS: BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF FLAXMAN LOW (1899), is rare and only six of the stories were collected in the rather shoddy wartime 1916 reprint edition. "Probably the first important adventures of an occult detective, if Le Fanu's Dr. Hesselius is momentarily overlooked." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 799. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 151. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-85. Bleiler (1978), p. 99. Reginald 11896.
THE CHRONICLES OF DON Q.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. From the library of Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay); signed as Queen and Barnaby Ross.