A rare pulp reprint.
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Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
Allen Kozsowski (illustrator). Seattle: Midnight House:, 2002. Hardcover, Limited edition, Fine in Fine dust jacvket, 264 pp. Cover artwork by: Allen Kozsowski This copy is unnumbered and instead marked "PC" or Presentation Copy. Still in publisher's original shrinkwrap. First published back in 1939. This edition is limited to 460 numbered copies. D.H. Olson offers an introduction to this novel. Ryan was a writer out of her time. The publisher asks us to imagine ". . . a novel with the cruelty of a Charles Birkin story fused with the grim excess of Edward Lee written in the 1940s!" Said to be a deeply disturbing descent into madness, perversion and the supernatural. Hardcover, Limited edition, Fine in Fine dust jacvket, Seller Inventory # 17208
Seller: Always Superior Books, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Hardback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition Thus. One of 450 numbered copies. Book. Seller Inventory # 054799
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Midnight House, Seattle, WA. , 2002. 365 pgs. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Horror thriller, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1939, of a family afflicted with a 'strain of the hyper-human . With one leg in the human world and one leg in the immaterial world.' In other words, some members become werewolves and after death, vampires. Govina, an extreme case, contemplates matricide and incest to fulfill his destiny. More confused but no less bizarre than his other thrillers, with a pronounced streak of eroticism associated with the violence. Possibly influenced by Endore's THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS, certainly similar under the pseudo-occult bunkum.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages. Seller Inventory # 74109
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. 460 copies printed of which this is one of 450 numbered copies offered for sale. "Horror thriller, first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1939, of a family afflicted with a 'strain of the hyper-human . with one leg in the human world and one leg in the immaterial world.' In other words, some members become werewolves and after death, vampires. Govina, an extreme case, contemplates matricide and incest to fulfill his destiny. More confused but no less bizarre than his other thrillers, with a pronounced streak of eroticism associated with the violence. Possibly influenced by Endore's THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS, certainly similar under the pseudo-occult bunkum." - Robert Knowlton. "Ryan's most ambitious book." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, p. 501. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 188. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 365. Reginald 12601. Hubin (1994), p. 710. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#177066). Seller Inventory # 177066