Unwin's Annual 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Marion Crawford supernatural
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Unwin's Annual 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Marion Crawford supernatural
$1,500.00 USD
Unwin's Annual 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Marion Crawford supernatural
Author: F. Marion Crawford, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Anstey, Walter Herries Pollock, William Archer, Tighe Hopkins, Sir Henry Newbolt
Frontispiece Illustrator: Harrold Copping
Year: 1886
Features: Hardcover bound copy Unwin's Annual 1886- The Broken Shaft; Tales in Mid-Ocean. Includes the first publication of Robert Louis Stevenson's Markheim. This also includes the first publication of F. Marion Crawford's "The Upper Berth" that has gone on to be regularly anthologized and has gained a reputation as one of the best and most original of Victorian era ghost stories. The 20th century ghost story author H. Russell Wakefield described it as "the very best one" in an essay on the genre in 1961. Additionally published here for the first time is F. Anstey's ghost story Marjory. Overall a tremendous collection of 19th century Supernatural stories. Very Rare.
Condition: Good: Front spine hinge loose, holding on by strings. Off white to cream supple pages. Advertising pages blue with tanning along edges.
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Author: F. Marion Crawford, Robert Louis Stevenson, F. Anstey, Walter Herries Pollock, William Archer, Tighe Hopkins, Sir Henry Newbolt
Frontispiece Illustrator: Harrold Copping
Year: 1886
Features: Hardcover bound copy Unwin's Annual 1886- The Broken Shaft; Tales in Mid-Ocean. Includes the first publication of Robert Louis Stevenson's Markheim. This also includes the first publication of F. Marion Crawford's "The Upper Berth" that has gone on to be regularly anthologized and has gained a reputation as one of the best and most original of Victorian era ghost stories. The 20th century ghost story author H. Russell Wakefield described it as "the very best one" in an essay on the genre in 1961. Additionally published here for the first time is F. Anstey's ghost story Marjory. Overall a tremendous collection of 19th century Supernatural stories. Very Rare.
Condition: Good: Front spine hinge loose, holding on by strings. Off white to cream supple pages. Advertising pages blue with tanning along edges.
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