A Corner in Sleep and Other Impossibilities by E.E. Kellett (First) Rare
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A Corner in Sleep and Other Impossibilities by E.E. Kellett (First) Rare
$300.00 USD
A Corner in Sleep and Other Impossibilities by E.E. Kellett (First) Rare
Authors: E.E. Kellett
Location: London
Publisher: Jarrold & Sons
Date: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Features: [1900]. First Edition with no statement. Variant binding. Original orange cloth blind stamped on front panel and gold lettering to spine; 259pp + [260] Publisher's logo; [261-272] Ads. Collects 11 fantastic short stories. The author's only published short story collection. "Fantasies, such as might have been written by a superior J. K. Bangs. * Including, [a] A CORNER IN SLEEP. Borderline science-fiction. An eccentric inventor discovers that sleep is a form of energy. He isolates it and attempts to gain a monopoly, but is mobbed by irate insomniacs. [b] SELF-HAUNTED. A traveller in the Netherlands sees a horrible being materialize in his bed. It is himself in distorted form. The "demon" tries to occupy the traveller's body. [c] THE TABLES TURNED. A registry office (employment office in American English) introduces ghosts to psychic researchers. A ghost must be found to haunt Charkley Grange, whose rude and loud owner is very hard on ghosts. The timid ghost Mr. Gespenst is so unsettled that he is frightened to life" (Bleiler).
Book Condition: Good+: Bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends with sunning to spine. Previous owner's name on front pasted end page.
HCX23326-1
Authors: E.E. Kellett
Location: London
Publisher: Jarrold & Sons
Date: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Features: [1900]. First Edition with no statement. Variant binding. Original orange cloth blind stamped on front panel and gold lettering to spine; 259pp + [260] Publisher's logo; [261-272] Ads. Collects 11 fantastic short stories. The author's only published short story collection. "Fantasies, such as might have been written by a superior J. K. Bangs. * Including, [a] A CORNER IN SLEEP. Borderline science-fiction. An eccentric inventor discovers that sleep is a form of energy. He isolates it and attempts to gain a monopoly, but is mobbed by irate insomniacs. [b] SELF-HAUNTED. A traveller in the Netherlands sees a horrible being materialize in his bed. It is himself in distorted form. The "demon" tries to occupy the traveller's body. [c] THE TABLES TURNED. A registry office (employment office in American English) introduces ghosts to psychic researchers. A ghost must be found to haunt Charkley Grange, whose rude and loud owner is very hard on ghosts. The timid ghost Mr. Gespenst is so unsettled that he is frightened to life" (Bleiler).
Book Condition: Good+: Bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends with sunning to spine. Previous owner's name on front pasted end page.
HCX23326-1