SHORT STORIES OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY: BARRY PAIN

by Barry Pain, Eric Odell

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London, Bombay, Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1928 . Small octavo, pp. 1-4 5-7 8 9-254 255 256: blank , original maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained brown. First edition. Pain's last original collection, issued posthumously. Thirteen stories. Several good pieces including 'The Tree of Death,' Oriental fable of arboreal vampire; 'The Reaction,' a drug induces visions of ecstasy, and

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