Buy this book on-line DALBY**, RICHARD - Edited by: : TALES OF WITCH-CRAFTLONDON.MICHAEL O/MARA BOOKS LIMITED,1991. ISBN 1854790390.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[An anomaly issue - mainstream publisher (Michael O'Mara) but with BCA colophon as opposed to O'Mara's,at foot of spine/backstrip of book,but dw/dj's spine/backstrip without either publisher's or BCA's colophon to it,but to rear panel of dw/dj,a BCA alpha-numerical CN4594 within a white panel instead of a bar-code and an ISBN to same panel.The dw/dj's colour artwork by Victoria Orr-Ewing,is identical to the later US (Barnes Noble,1998) 8vo HB+dw/dj of this UK,original and true 1st edn.] FINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - generally believed to be an export copy, appearing before the UK trade issue.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with white,orange and yellow lettering to front,and bright,non-sunned orange+yellow lettered unfaded spine/backstrip and similar lettered rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with light dust-flecking,fore-edges with some sporadic but minimal foxing; contents otherwise bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – near pristine,appears unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and clean plain white sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viipp+1- 245pp [paginated] includes editor's foreword,17 short stories by 17 different authors; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,contents list/table and to the rear,acknowledgements,and 2pp blanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is spectacular for a book of it's age and nature,i.e a child's book,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
A superb collection,featuring tales by Saki, M.R. James, N. Dennett, Jessica A. Salmonson, Ron Weighell, A. M. Burrage, W. F. Harvey, Marjorie Bowen, Robert Bloch, Shamus Frazer, Stephen King, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Roger Johnson, Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, David G.Rowlands, E. F. Benson,and Manly W. Wellman.
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