Second edition. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine and skull illustration to the upper board, in dustwrapper. Gold silk ribbon page marker. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£32.50 to the front flap).
First published in 1999 by Tartarus Press in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies. A collection of eight ghost stories written by F. Marion Crawford, comprising of 'The Dead Smile', 'The Screaming Skull', 'Man Overboard!', 'For the Blood is the Life', 'The Upper Berth', 'By the Waters of Paradise', 'The Doll's Ghost' and 'The King's Messenger'. The volume also contains the complete literary output of Crawford's eldest sister Anne (Countess von Rabe), 'A Mystery of the Campagna' and 'A Shadow on a Wave', both written under the pseudonym of Von Degen. A further tale, 'A Were-Wolf of the Campagna', was written by Crawford's other sister Mary, under the pseudonym of Mrs Hugh Fraser.
Stock code: 30502
£75