STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.. by WAKEFIELD, H.R

arkham house, 1961, first edition ,, . very good - fine, darker spine jacket only, NO BOOK

arkham 1961, first edition ,,. near fine jacket only, NO BOOK

Good++, Good++ Arkham House 1961 8VO, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Black cloth boards with title in gold on spine. Corners bumped. Text pages are clean. Illustrated dust jacket is noticeably tanned. Light soil. Looks very nice in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, Publishers, 1961. First Edition. One of a Limited Edition of 2,070 copies. Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 186 pp. Near-Fine, with neat former-owner stamp to ffep.; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket that is age darkened. From dust jacket: Although it is fifteen years since a collection of ghost stories bearing the byline of H. Russell Wakefiled has been offered to the reading public, it is evident from the first page to the last of this new book that the skilled hand of this master teller of tales has lost none of its art. With considered judgement, the distinguieshed poet-critic John Betjeman recently wrote in the London Daily Telegraph, M. R. James is the greatest master of the ghost story. Henry James, Sheridan LeFanu, and H. Russelll Wakefiled are equal seconds. Mr. Wakefield is now certainly the dean of ghost story writers, and only a writer thoroughly a master of his craft could have turned out such memorable tales as Immortal… Read More

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House; Publisher, 1961. First edition First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. See Barron: Horror Literature 3-200 and 4-311. Tiny bumps to the corners. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with mildly toned spine panel.

1/1/1961. Hardcover w/DJ. Arkham House, 1961. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; spine tanned; black cloth; binding good; text clean. G/G

Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1961. Hard cover. Like New. Fine in very good dust jacket. very slight darkening of DJ's spine and tiny crease, now in ghost-proof mylar 13 ghost-stories from a master of the art. "I believe that ghost-story writing is a dying art".

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 186pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Jacket designed by Gary Gore.

Wisc: Arkham House. Fine. 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition bound in black cloth. A Fine copy in a dj that has a jus t a hint of tanning to the spine else fine. .

Arkham House. Used - Very Good. 1961. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1961; black cloth/near fine with light shelf wear, foxing to upper text block; jacket is VG with some smudging and light shelf wear; includes typed letter to publisher inquiring about missing colophon with response from Arkham House saying it would have it cost too much. Very Good. (Subject: Literature.)