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