First edition. This offering by bookseller-author Sims is about a film star who is haunted by his wife's death in a car accident. Since the disaster he has been plagued with sinister notes, newspaper cuttings and strange occurences. Then suddenly the actor disappears. 158 pages. paper over boards, dust jacket.. 8vo..
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Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. Hardback. First published in 1966. In the Atlantic Large Print series. isbn 0745182542 8vo. pp. [viii], 220. Original publisher's red illustrated boards lettered black red and white. Presentation copy: 'For Jill Anne & Nancy a book with a favoured name Ñ George 17.1.'92.' Daedalus Press postcard poem 'Wind's Littoral Work Is' by George Sims loosely inserted with a handwritten signed note on the other side consisting of about 65 words in which he comments on a Charlotte Mew anecdote about messages from 'the other side' which he is 'v. doubtful about' and says he once wrote a short story concerning an unhinged medium. He was also interested to hear about the 'Trollope splurge'. Jill Anne and Nancy Bowden worked at Cyril Beaumont's Bookshop at 75 Charing Cross Road. George F. Sims (1923-1999) bookseller and collector of rare books and manuscripts published a few collections of his own poems and a number of novels and memoirs. Very good indeed. Very good indeed. Signedes. Seller Inventory # C69457
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