First Centipede Press edition. Signed by the author and cover illustrator. Original black paper-covered boards with titles in silver to the spine and a blind stamped motif showing a hand holding a rose on the upper board, in the Lisa Desimini illustrated dustwrapper. Endpapers illustrated with the cover designs of early paperback editions. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper.
Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies, this example is numbered 138 and is signed by Bernard Taylor and Lisa Desimini in black ink on the limitation page. A gothic haunted house novel first published in 1977 by Souvenir Press. Described by the World Fantasy Award winning writer Charles L. Grant as "the best ghost story... I have ever read, and am ever likely to read".
Stock code: 28929
£100