PAUSE TO WONDER: STORIES OF THE MARVELOUS, MYSTERIOUS AND STRANGE.
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-ix [x] xi-xix [xx] [1] 2-572 publisher's gray cloth spine stamped in brown. Second printing (December 1944). One of the major reprint anthologies of the 1940s, collecting eighty-two stories by sixty-six authors, mostly mainstream twentieth century American and British writers, including Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, James Thurber, Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, Robert Graves, and many others. "A resourceful collection of material stressing mainstream sources. There is also some folkloristic and scholarly material ... An imaginative, resourceful and successful collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 636. [Reference: Bleiler (1978), p. 73. Reginald 05431]. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with mild shelf wear to edges, some toning to spine and rear panel. (37144). Item #37144
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