Nesbit (E.) Fear, first edition, the dedication copy with signed presentation inscription from the author "To Paul Bland, to whom this book was dedicated and is dedicated, this copy on his birthday, from E. Nesbit, his mother, who wrote the book. June 28. 1910" to front free endpaper, 2pp. advertisements at front, 2pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher's catalogue at rear, light browning to endpapers, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, light toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, some splitting and fraying to upper joint, some light marking, extremities rubbed, preserved in custom black morocco drop-back box with title lettered in red on spine, [Tymn 3-181], 8vo, Stanley Paul & Co., 1910.

⁂ The dedication copy of Nesbit's most celebrated collection of supernatural stories. Includes one of her most adapted stories, "Man-Size in Marble". Her son Paul was also the dedicatee of The Railway Children.