The Waiting Sands -and- The Devil on Lammas Night by HOWATCH, Susan - [c.1970s]

New York: Stein and Day. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1970s]. BCE. Hardcover. Book club edition. A pair of Gothic novels by Susan Howatch, author of "Penmarric", in a single volume. "The Waiting Sands" is set on the "savage coast of Scotland." "The Devil on Lammas Night" is concerned with a satanist who plans a human sacrifice. --- In glossy red paper-covered boards with spine titling in black. Dust jacket with a silhouetted image of a castle at night. --- With prior owner's inked notation to front free endpaper and three black marks to textblock lower edge, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Dust jacket with light rubbing and creasing to spine ends but remaining intact and bright.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 405 pages .