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Lot 486
Asquith (Lady Cynthia) Shudders, first edition, [1929].
Hammer Price: £2,000
Description
Asquith (Lady Cynthia) Shudders, first edition, edge-spotting, original pictorial cloth, light spotting to upper joint, else fine, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, two short tears with creasing to head, some spotting to spine, a near-fine example overall, 8vo, [1929].
⁂ Cynthia Asquith's second supernatural anthology in the rare dust-jacket, we can trace no like example at auction. Including stories by E. F. Benson, L. P. Hartley, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood and Somerset Maugham. Also includes the M. R. James story Rats, first published in At Random magazine in March of the same year.
Description
Asquith (Lady Cynthia) Shudders, first edition, edge-spotting, original pictorial cloth, light spotting to upper joint, else fine, dust-jacket priced at 7/6, two short tears with creasing to head, some spotting to spine, a near-fine example overall, 8vo, [1929].
⁂ Cynthia Asquith's second supernatural anthology in the rare dust-jacket, we can trace no like example at auction. Including stories by E. F. Benson, L. P. Hartley, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood and Somerset Maugham. Also includes the M. R. James story Rats, first published in At Random magazine in March of the same year.
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