Midnight Tales
1946, twenty uncanny tales including The Beast with Five Fingers
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Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 200pp.
A collection of twenty tales of the uncanny by W F Harvey. From the dustwrapper, "The twenty tales are arranged in order which is intended to build up to two climaxes". The stories are: Midnight House, The Dabblers, Unwinding, Mrs Ormerod, Double Demon, The Tool, The Heart of the Fire, The Clock, Peter Levisham, Miss Cornelius, The Man Who Hated Aspidistras, Sambo, The Star, Across the Moors, The Follower, August Heat, Sarah Bennet's Possession, The Ankardyne Pew, Miss Avenal, and The Beast with Five Fingers.
Condition
A good copy. The book is in strong, solid condition, with some age-toning to the pages due to the wartime economy paper, light spotted foxing to the page edges and neat previous owner's pencilled name to ffep. The dustwrapper has some light edgewear, not price-clipped but with publisher's price sticker laid over original price, spotted foxing to rear panel but now win a protective sleeve.