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Machen, Arthur.
Dreads and Drolls.
Publisher: Martin Secker, London;
Date of Publication: 1926
Stock Code: 11570
First Edition. Octavo, pp., [8], 220, [2]. Bound in publisher’s green cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the original publisher’s dust-jacket. Cloth lightly creased to spine and some offsetting to endpapers from dust-jacket else very clean, neat and free from ownership inscriptions and annotations. Dust-jacket has minor loss to edges and with front panel free from spine panel, in protective mylar sleeve. Overall a Very Good copy in a Fair dust-jacket. Twenty-nine studies from real life intended to invoke “terror or amused wonder” from the master of Weird Fiction. Scare in the original 1926 dust-jacket. £125.00