Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural (SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION) Hardcover - 1964

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Berry & Simon (Jacket Design). Signed by Grubb. SIGNED, NUMBERED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, 1964. Laid in with this first edition book is a signed numbered limited edition bookplate which reads "Bookplate from Charley's Fan Club [signed here by Grubb] Charley for many years was the constant canine companion of novelist David Grubb. Of 50 numbered bookplates this is number 43/50. First edition with A-2.64[V] on copyright page. Hardcover, bound in light green publisher's cloth, covers are illustrated in black with black lettering. Spine is also lettered in black. Black top stain. Contains stories: Busby's Rat; The Rabbit Prince; Radio; One Foot in the Grave; Moonshine; The Man Who Stole the Moon; Nobody's Watching!; The Horsehair Trunk; The Blue Glass Bottle; Wynken, Blynken, and Nod; Return of Verge Linkens; and Where the Woodbine Twineth. 175 pp. Dust jacket is in green, black and white color tones, protected by Gaylord protector. Book bears light wear. Jacket is nice with very modest edge wear at top and bottom of spine; back flap is clipped. A lovely copy. Additional photographs available upon request. Full refund if not satisfied. <br><br>FROM THE DUST JACKET: One of the finest storytellers in this country, Davis Grubb has a special gift for the tale that is startling and bizarre. here are a dozen of the, which range widely in mood and yet are all marked by his extraordinary imagination. They range from a savage story about the effect of radio to the tender and fantastic "The Man Who Stole the Moon"; from an account of a man deliberately and ingeniously frightened to death to the description of a small boy turning his teacher into a white rabbit. There are tales of the magical world of childhood; and of murder. In many of them Davis Grubb writes about the region he has made particularly his own -- the Ohio River Valley. Read one or two of these Tales and you will not put the book down. <br><br>ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Davis Grubb was born in 1919 in Moundsville, West Virginia, a small town in the Ohio River. "I have never wavered from a resolution made at the age of seven that I would become a writer," he says. "My earliest literary influences were the tales of old men in my river town." For more than two hundred years Mr. Grubb's people have lived in that part of the Ohio Valley and in setting and spirit it has been the source of his novels, of The Night of the Hunter, A dream of Kings, The Watchman and The Voices of Glory. (From the back flap of dust jacket).