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Meikle, Denis; Koetting, Christopher; Cushing, Peter.
A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer.
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md; London,
Date of Publication: 1996
Stock Code: 15530
First edition. Octavo, pp., [2] publishers’ advertisements, xv, [1], 420, plus photographic frontispiece, further monochrome photographs within text. Publisher’s original black cloth; titled in gilt to spine; white end-papers; in the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Finger-marks to dust-jacket. Mottling to cloth. Internally clean. A history of the British film studio Hammer, from its inception in the 1930s to its decline in the 1970s. Introduced by Peter Cushing. £40.00