Short Story Masterpieces by the Best American Authors

Verlag: Daily Story Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

Zustand: Very Good Hardcover

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[ANTHOLOGY] Short Story Masterpieces by the Best American Authors . Chicago: Daily Story Publishing Company, 1900. First edition. 16mo, pp. [1-2] [-2] 3-325 [326: blank]. Original purple cloth, front panel stamped in gold, with white shelf-back spine stamped in gold. Illustrated by J. Greville Wilmot with half-tones on twenty inserted plates. Each story also features initial cap and vignette. Early pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A stain on p. 236 could possibly be an occult emanation from the text. A very good copy. #1763. $25. Collects 38 pieces of short fiction by American authors ranging widely in quality and including some very obscure material. A few feature supernatural or fantastic elements, including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read, a tale apparently of a mummified Egyptian princess reincarnated after a young man becomes obsessed by the mummy in a museum. "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett concerns a Mexican flower with demonic powers that causes insanity. "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller also concerns insanity, and dreams. The illustrations are so bad as to be inadvertently amusing. Wright III 4931 (with detailed list of contents). Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers 1763

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Titel: Short Story Masterpieces by the Best ...

Verlag: Daily Story Publishing Company, Chicago

Erscheinungsdatum: 1900

Einband: Hardback

Illustrator: J. Greville Wilmot

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: First Edition.

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When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it "Eldritch Books" because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so -- eldritch). "Ghost stories" would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. Since the most familiar and relevant genre terms in use today -- "science fiction," "fantasy," "supernatural," "horror" -- were not so much in use when these books were first published, pegging them that way can be anachronistic. But that should give you the general idea. I don't have much in the way of American pulp (either in magazine or specialty press book form) but otherwise my interests range widely from high-brow to middle-brow to low-brow to amateur/eccentric. You're more likely to find rare and obscure works here than high spots. (Or at least they're obscure now, whatever their status was when first published.) In 2001 I went to work for L. W. Currey as cataloguer and general assistant. Since 2014 I've been back working on my own. I have exhibited at convention fairs (such as WFC and Readercon) in the past. I began collecting and studying antiquarian fantasy around 1980. Some of my essays have appeared in genre publications such as NYRSF, Wormwood and F&SF. I tend to carefully research my inventory and write extensive notes. (If another dealer wishes to make use of any of these notes, I'd appreciate the courtesy of putting such excerpts in quotes and giving proper attribution to me. That's what I do when I quote from any of my reference works.) I will be gradually listing my inventory on ABE over the coming years. I hope you find something of interest.

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