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by Conway (Hugh) (pseudonym of Frederick J. Fargus)

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About This Item

NY: Norman L. Munro, 1884.. 8vo. Original tan wrappers designed and printed in black. 112pp. + 4 leaves of publisher's ads and three blank leaves at the rear. Issued as Vol. 1, No. 215 in Munro's Library, Pocket Size. Published Sept. 4, 1884. Chipping at edges of covers and base of spine, large piece gone from upper corner of cover, just affecting a few words of text on the cover, some creasing, about very good. At the bottom of the front cover is the legend: "SPECIAL EDITION". A very early American issue o f t h i s f a m o u s book, which was first published in England as an Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual in 1883. CALLED BACK was a best-selling book in Britain, and established the pattern for the "Shilling Shockers" which were to become so preval en t. Se e Lo ck e : SP EC TR UM O F FANTASY, Vol 1. for a description of the British edition, and a discussion of the book's history. There are innumerable editions and issues; this is surely one of the first American issues.

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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop CA (CA)
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Title
Called Back.
Author
Conway (Hugh) (pseudonym of Frederick J. Fargus)
Book Condition
Used
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Publisher
NY: Norman L. Munro, 1884.
Keywords
shilling shocker victorian conway
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About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.

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Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Wrappers
The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Leaves
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