Private owner's armorial bookplate affixed to the front paste-down and name, address and date, July 1895," on front free endpaper. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 364. one of the basic documents in the history of fantastic fiction." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 396.
A landmark book in abandoning the ghosts of Victorian literary tradition and concentrating on the nightmare." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 364. "Surprisingly vital stories, undoubtedly the best work that Chambers did. "One of the most important works of supernatural horror between Edgar Allan Poe and modern horror fiction." - Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, p. The author's second book and first collection of short stories. There is no inserted frontispiece, page is blank, lizard design is on the front cover, and sheets bulk 1.5 cm. Of the three printings with title pages dated 1895, this one is generally accepted as the first. 10-316, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.
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