Item #25510 THE WOODEN WOMAN. Alexander Townsend.

THE WOODEN WOMAN.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-320, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained blue-gray, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. Ghost novel of a haunted ship, the sins of the fathers drive descendants to reenact past tragedy. Familiar material handled with flair and sensitivity, doom-laden atmosphere builds inexorably to final catastrophe. One of the better maritime horror novels. Bleiler (1978), p. 194. Reginald 14189. Gift inscription to front free end paper, touch of wear to corner tips and spine ends, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with foxing to front panel and mild age darkening to spine panel with a touch of wear to spine ends. (25510). Item #25510

Price: $75.00

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