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De La Mare, Walter.
The Return.
Publisher: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1922
Stock Code: 10579
Number 241 in a signed limited edition of 250 copies only. Octavo, pp. [6], 309, [1]. Publishers’ grey quarter buckram with paper-covered boards; gilt titles to grey leather spine label; fore-edge and lower edge uncut. Cloth lightly foxed, with surface scuff to lower board; spine tips and corners a little rubbed. A hint of sunning to top edge of upper board. Minor foxing to text-block edge otherwise contents clean and crisp with MacAulay armorial bookplate to front paste-down bearing the motto “Tha Cunnarton Mils” which translates as “Dangers are Sweet” from Scottish gaelic. A very good copy. Second of only two full-length supernatural novels by prolific poet and author Walter De La Mare (1873-1950), these supernatural novels and his eerie short stories were admired by master of the macabre H. P. Lovecraft. £65.00