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[Philadelphia]: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, original red buckram. First edition. According to Prime Press partner Oswald Train, 100 copies of this limited issue signed by Sturgeon and artist L. Robert Tschirky were produced. This is one of the copies with the publisher's holograph statement on front paste-down reading "The publisher certifies that / this is one of an edition /of eighty copies only. This / is copy # twenty-two. / The Prime Press." The author's first book, preceded by a promotional pamphlet containing a single story from this book. Collection of 13 stories including the classics "It" and "Microcosmic God". Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-173. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-192. A fine copy, spine color a touch faded in a very good publishers slip case with rubbing. (11251). Item #11251
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