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Haining, Peter. (editor)
Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America.
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1972
Stock Code: 14574
First thus, octavo, pp., 928. Teal cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, in a pink and blue illustrated unclipped dust-jacket. Very good. Some foxing to the text block edges with a slightly dusty top edge. Dust jacket spine slightly sunned, with a few modest scratches and dents especially to lower panel. This second volume of Tales of Terror continues the editor’s study of the gothic genre with work produced in Europe and America 1765-1840, Volume I having been short stories from Great Britain in the same period. Featured authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne. £45.00