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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-274 [275] [276: blank] [277: ads] [278: blank], original light green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. First printing with code "(1)" at base of text on page [275]. Published in the U.K. under the title of Old Man's Beard. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M.R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. A clean, very good to nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with small 15 mm closed tear to lower front panel, light wear to spine ends with a tiny chip at head of spine panel, a small chip to base of rear spine fold and a closed tear along lower rear spine fold, mild fade to spine panel. (36129). Item #36129
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