Macabre Anthology Charles Birkin (Editor) POWERS OF DARKNESS 1934 1st UK G
First UK hardcover edition/first printing with "First Impression of this Collection 1934" on copywrite page. Publisher: London Philip Allan, 1934 Octavo. 5" x 7.25" [vi] pp 7-243 [I Blank] [ xii advertisements]. Original green cloth cover. Spine panel stamped in black. No DJ.
Book Condition: Good Cover tips are lightly frayed. Front cover has 1/2-inch strip of sun fading. Spine sun faded and lightly bumped. Binding is strong. Text browned. Text unmarked. Small Bookseller label on rear pastedown.
Part of the old fourteen volume "Creeps" classics. Collects ten stories of the macabre including:
The Two Bottles of Relish by Lord Dunsany
The Coat by A.E.D. Smith
Obsessions by Charles Lloyd
The Third Time by Kenneth Ingram
The Guillotine by John H. Turner
The Mutineers by Cicely Fox-Smith
November the Thirteenth by Russell Thorndike
The Miniature in Black by L.A. Westney
The Temple Servant by E.R, Morrough
A Nice Cup of Tea by Maureen E. Shaw