NOVEMBER NIGHT TALES: A BOOK OF SHORT STORIES

by Henry Mercer

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Walter Neale, 1928 . Octavo, pp. 1-6 7-244, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collection of six supernatural tales, a bit awkward in the telling but with highly imaginative ideas. In 'The North Ferry Bridge' a vengeance-crazed peddler breeds a horde of cholera-bearing rats; 'The Wolf Book' is a Gypsy grimore for werewolves; 'The Dolls' Castle' lays

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