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Collins, William Wilkie; Doyle, Arthur Conan, et al.
Classics Illustrated Giant: An Illustrated Library of Exciting Mystery Stories by the World's Immortal Authors.
Publisher: Gilberton, New York;
Date of Publication: 1949
Stock Code: 11759
Softcover quarto, pp., [192]. Cartoon strip illustrations in colour throughout, in stapled pictorial card wraps by Alex Anthony Blum. Covers lightly creased, and toned to reverse. Several leaves nicked to fore-edge margin; 7cm x 3 cm loss to single leaf at top corner (mostly to margins). Contents very lightly toned but bright with no annotation or inscriptions, and no rust at staples; top edge of text-block slightly roughly trimmed. A very good copy. Rare Illustrated Classics compilation of speculative fiction including classics such as “The Moonstone”, “The Sign of the 4” (sic), “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and "The Pit and the Pendulum" amongst others. £225.00