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"Tales to be Told in the Dark" edited by Basil Davenport. Published in 1957 by Dodd, Mead, & Company. SCARCE.
Dustjacket has been covered with a protective archival BrodArt covering.
"This is a masterful collection assembled by a master editor from the master writers: Saki, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Thurber, Lafcadio Hearn and others. Here are horrors upon ingenious horror, fiends, werewolves, witches and warlocks, supernatural beasts that will tear your throat out, a bird that will shatter your sanity and a sundry selection of creeping and crawling repulsions that will guarantee you weird, shivering nightmares for a week."
Book is in Very Good condition. Dustjacket is in Fair condition. Chipping/rubbing on the DJ. Section missing from the top of the spine as well at the back top corner. A lot of creasing on the back DJ. Book itself is in Very Good condition. Some rubbing on the covers. Corners are bumped a bit. Interior is in Great condition. Pages are bright and clean with slight foxing on the… Read More

"The Snow Baby: A True Story with True Pictures" by Josephine Peary. Published in 1901. First Edition Thus! NO later printings/editions stated. RARE BOOK! Lots of B&W Photographs!
"The Snow Baby is the name that the Esquimaux gave to little Miss Peary, and Mrs. Joseph D. Peary has written a delightful account of her little daughter who was born far in the north, and whose early months were spent near the North Pole. She explained the Esquimaux term for "The Snow Baby," which is "Aphoomikaninny," and gives an account of the strange huts of skin and wood in which they live, of the dogs and queer animals which were her playmates, of the brown-faced men and women and children, who gaped in wonder at the little white baby. She gives an interesting account of the long Arctic night which lasts for months, when the sun never rises. That little Miss Peary was a pet of the White Man's expedition is not to be wondered at. There are many photographs of the Arctic life which illustrate this remarkable book."
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