THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1937]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xvi [1-2] 3-848, 62 black and white illustrations, fifteen full-page, by Lynd Ward, original flexible blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light green. First edition. An excellent anthology collecting 42 weird and supernatural tales by W. F. Harvey, M. R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lafcadio Hearn, May Sinclair, Ambrose Bierce, John Collier, Edith Wharton, and many others. Stunning illustrations by Lynd Ward. Ward's "most outstanding achievement was a series of sixty [i.e. 62] illustrations for THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS in 1937, one of the major ghost story collections published before World War II." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 450. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 978. Bleiler (1978), p. 117. Reginald 08538]. Front corners bumped, a nearly fine in very good dust jacket with light wear to corners and spine ends, which has shallow loss, rubbing to front fold. An attractive copy of a book which normally appears either without jacket or in mediocre condition. (30761). Item #30761
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