GHOST STORY

First Centipede Press edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original grey cloth with titles in red to the spine and wraparound illustration in black to the boards, in the Douglas Smith illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the black cloth slipcase with illustrated onlay and titles in green. With a frontispiece and three black and white full page illustrations by Douglas Smith and five by Vladimir Zimakov. Top edge red. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. With the fine original dustwrapper, which is free from fading, loss or tears. Complete with the structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies of which this example is number 18 and signed by the author Peter Straub in blue ink, and the illustrators Douglas Smith and Vladimir Zimakov in black ink on the colophon. Originally published in 1979 by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 'Ghost Story' was adapted into the 1981 film of the same name, directed by John Irvin, starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.