NIGHT PIECES by Burke, Thomas - first edition 1936

Books for Libraries Press, 1971. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Light wear; some discoloring to the cloth, pages toned; a good sound binding. No jacket. Includes Miracle in Suburbia; Yesterday Street; Funspot; Uncle Ezekiel's Long Sight; The Horrible God; Father and Son; Johnson Looked Back; Two Gentlemen; The Black Courtyard; The Gracious Ghosts; Jack Wapping; One Hundred Pounds; The Man Who Lost His Head; Murder Under the Crooked Spire; The Lonely Inn; The Watcher; Events at Wayless Wagtail; The Hollow Man. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 179847. .

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

D Appleton-Century Company, Inc. Hardcover. Good. Used good.

D. Appleton-Century Co. Collectible - Acceptable. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. 1st edition. Sm 8vo Hardcover. 309pp. Near Very Good book and no dust jacket. Heavy edgewear. Light soiling to the boards. Spine and pages toned. Bookplate to the front pastedown. (fiction short stories anthology) Inquire if you need further information.

Used; Very Good. 5-E-33 Books for Libraries Press 1971 Hardcover. No dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers have light wear. Book Condition; Very Good . 1971. HARDCOVER.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Eighteen stories set in the weird and seedy streets of London. First US edition (with "(I)" on the last text page). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with minor wear along the edges. Previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper.

appleton century, first edition 1936. near fine in an almost near fine jacket, a little edge and corner bumping, with very tiny corner chips, some spine rubbing

London: Constable, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Bound in turquoise-green cloth with red lettering to the spine. Red top edge. VG indeed in like 7/6 net D/W rubbed to the corners and with a little, very mild chipping to the head of the spine just affecting the very top of the IG of NIGHT. Superb period D/W art by Hookway Cowles (reminiscent of Chagall). A collection of eighteen weird and criminous stories set in the dark back streets, shadowy courts and small secret houses of London. Uncommon.

London: Constable & Co Limited, [1935]. First edition. Some light foxing to fore-edge of pages, light bump to lower front corner, a fine copy in bright, nearly fine price clipped four-color pictorial dust jacket with foxing to the verso of spine with some bleed through, mild edge wear, scratch to the rear panel, rectangular price sticker affixed to base of spine panel. Scarce in dust jacket. (25251). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-311 [312], original red cloth, spine stamped in black. Collection of eighteen weird and criminous stories set in shadowy London. Burke's core collection of horror stories, distinctive for their original treatments of familiar themes. Best include doppelganger story "Johnson Looked Back" and zombie story "The Hollow Man." "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 309. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 15. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-41. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-50. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 121. Bleiler (1978), p. 35.… Read More