Arkham House,, Sauk City:, 1948. Cloth. First edition.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With the best wishes of the/ the writer,/ Leslie Hartley". The author's first collection issued in the U.S. culled from two U.K. titles and some unpublished manuscripts. See Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-80. A fine copy, head of spine slightly bumped, in a fine dust jacket, touch of rubbing to head of spine panel. The Arkham edition is quite scarce being signed.

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