THE STRATAGEM AND OTHER STORIES

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original gold and black snakeskin effect boards with titles in black on a white paper label to the spine. No dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the boards slightly bowed, with some rubbing at the extremities. The contents, with a small stain to the text block fore-edge and some offsetting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout.

A collection of three short stories: The Stratagem; The Testament of Magdalen Blair; His Secret Sin. The middle story "a description of after death experiences as the brain decays" is noted in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural as "one of the most horrible stories ever written" and in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Bleiler) "a remarkable achievement, as one of the most unpleasant stories in the genre".

Stock code: 23485

£200

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Published:

London: The Mandrake Press.
1929

Category

Science Fiction / Fantasy
Modern First Editions
Horror
Occult
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