Not at Night

by Thomson, Christine Campbell, ed.

$1,500 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

London: Selwyn Blount (1928) Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good- dj. 1929 (c.1925). 11th printing. Hardcover. [modest wear to extremities, pages tanned with age, but generally a good sound copy of a cheaply-manufactured book; former owner s initials plus date place of purchase written along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by rear jacket flap); the jacket is a bit soiled on the rear panel, with a handful of tiny nicks and edge-tears, minor paper loss at a couple of corners, and a vertical crease along the left edge of the front panel]. ( Not at Night series, No. 1) Series A very presentable copy of the first entry in the long-running Not at Night horror-fiction anthology series. The series was a publishing hit, as evidenced not only by the fact that this title had gone through eleven printings by November 1929 (the daet of this printing, four years after the first edition), but also that it had already spawned four more entries in the series, all blurbed on the rear panel of what is, perforce, a later-issue dust jacket (with the same front-panel art as the first edition, but with a No. 1 slug added to the spine, and the blurbs for the first five volumes on the rear panel). The original series eventually numbered eleven volumes, and was capped off by the publication of an additional Omnibus volume, published in 1937. (A later series of Not at Night paperbacks, issued in the early 1960s, presented selections from the original volumes.) The series derived most of its content from the

• Publisher: Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd.
• Year: 1929
• Edition: 11th printing
• Binding: hardcover

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