THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES.
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1912. Octavo, p. [1-4: blank] [i-ix] x-xii [1-3] 4-298 [299-304: blank], original brownish-green cloth, stamped in dark brown and silver to front cover, stamped in dark brown to spine. First U.S. edition. Story collection. This copy stamped "sample copy" on the title page. This is a variant cloth binding of brownish-green as opposed to the usually observed blue cloth, no priority established. The U.S. edition collects eight stories and a poem. The U.K. edition collected 10 stories and 10 poems, the U.S. edition drops the stories "Streams of Water in the South," "The Riding of the Ninemileburn," and "The Rime of True Thomas" and adds the story "Fountainblue" as well as dropping two of the poems. Two of the stories included here "Space" and " The Grove of Ashtoroth" are considered by Bleiler in his Guide to Supernatural Fiction (#292) "among Buchan's very best work." An attractive very good plus copy, rubbing to edges. (11653). Item #11653
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