MAN OVERBOARD!
New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1903. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-96 1-[6] ads [7-8: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], three inserted plates, including a sepia-tone photographic portrait of the author employed as frontispiece, title page printed in black and brown, original pictorial beige paper-covered boards, front and spine panels printed in brown, decorated endpapers. First edition. "A sailor who has been washed overboard returns as a revenant. Material horror, but effective." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 447. "... an effective tale of ghostly vengeance." - Sullivan, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 100. [Reference: Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 60-61. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03545. BAL 4216 (not noting this binding variant)]. Ownership stamp on front free endpaper. Head of spine bumped, wear to spine ends and corner tips, front and spine soiled. A very good copy. (8753). Item #8753
Price: $45.00