THE EDGE OF THE CHAIR by Kahn, Joan (editor) (Edmund Pearson; Stanley Ellin; Robert Tallant; Valentina Zhuravleva; Alexander Pushkin; Stewart Alsop; Thomas Braden; Ambrose Bierce; Harold Pinter; Edward Hale Bierstadt; Robert M. Coates; Antoine de Saint-Exupery; Graham Greene) - 1967

New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo. 560 pp. Please note, this is a somewhat large book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Green cloth decorated in gilt and black on the front panel and spine; black endpapers; black upper edge. Light wear on the dustjacket with some rubbing on the front panel; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Sixth Capsule or Proof by Circumstantial Evidence by Edmund Pearson; Fool's Mate by Stanley Ellin; The Axeman Wore Wings by Robert Tallant; Stone from the Stars by Valentina Zhuravleva; The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin; Billy: The Seal Mission by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden; A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce; Tea Party by Harold Pinter; Death Draws a Triangle by Edward Hale Bierstadt; The Net by Robert M. Coates; Prisoner of the Sand by Antoine de Saint Exupery; The End of the Party by Graham Greene; The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries by Andre Castelot; Jesting Pilot by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore); Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth's Escape by William G. Shepherd; A Piece of Steak by Jack London; The Game of Murder by Gerd Gaiser; On the Killing of Eratosthenes the Seducer by Kathleen Freeman; The Adventure of Clapham Cook by Agatha Christie; The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury; They by Rudyard Kipling; The Chair by John Bartlow Martin; Old Fags by Stacy Aumonier; Dead Men Working in Cane Fields by William Seabrook; How the Bridadier Lost His Ear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Dry September by William Faulkner; Rattenbury and Stone by T. Tennyson Jesse; Sing a Song of Sixpence by John Buchan; The Murder in Le Mans by Janet Flanner; Sleeping Beauty by John Collier; The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton; A Small Buried Treasure by John Fischer; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; and Scrawns by Dorothy L. Sayers..