THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER.
New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-295 [296: blank], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained yellow. First edition, first printing with F&R monogram on copyright page. Weird mystery in which a scientist attempts to contact his dead wife via a machine. See Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-545; (1981) 2-93; and (1987) 2-102. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-181. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 200. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1784-88. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 181. Reginald 13282. Hubin (1994), p. 751. Large previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste down, small bookstore label affixed to lower front free end paper, age darkening to pages, spine leaned a very good copy in a fair dust jacket with splitting along front panel/spine fold and closed tears to the spine panel, large jagged chip to the upper front panel, rubbing to folds, small chip to lower right front panel, loss to spine ends, thin chip along upper rear panel. (25527). Item #25527
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