Faulkner William Contributors (23 results)

xiv, 317 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 14.75cm. Gray paper covers lightly rubbed with minor scuffs at edges; light vertical crease to spine. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A very good+ copy. Comprised of "Papers presented at the 12th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi, 1985." "William Faulkner: Life and Art" by Joseph Blotner; "The Mutual Relevance of Faulkner Studies and Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry" by Ilse Dusoir Lind; "Faulkner's Critics and Women: The Voice of the Community" by John N. Duvall; "Women in Faulkner's Novels: Author's Attitude and Artistic Function" by Sergei Chakovsky; "Meditations on the Other: Faulkner's Rendering of Women" by Philip M. Weinstein; "Mothers and Daughters in Endless Procession: Faulkner's Use of the Demeter/Persephone Myth" by Mimi R. Gladstein; "Desire and Despair: Temple Drake's Self-Victimization" by Robert R. Moore; "In Praise of Helen" by Andre Bleikasten; "Joe Christmas and 'Womanshenegro'" by Doreen Fowler; "Faulkner and Womankind - 'No Bloody Moon'" by Winifred L. Frazer; "Woman and the Feminine in 'A Fable'" by Noel Polk; "Woman and the Making of the New World: Faulkner's Short Stories" by Alexandre Vashchenko; "Double Murder: The Women of Faulkner's 'Elly'" by Alice Hall Petry; "Faulkner's Hen-House: Woman as Bounded Text" by Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz; "Faulkner and Women Writers" by Judith Bryant Wittenberg; and "Faulkner and Women" by Toni Morrison. {LitCrit-Shelf#2} ISBN 0878053123.…

xvi, 304 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15cm. Blue paper covers rubbed with minor wear and a few scuffs at edges and at spine ends. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A very good+ copy. With Introduction and Contributors. Features eleven essays: "'Saying No to Death'" by Robert W. Hamblin; "The Cubist Novel: Toward Defining the Genre" by Panthea Reid Broughton; "Faulkner's Cubist Novels" by Panthea Reid Broughton; "The Road to 'The Reivers'" by James B. Carothers; "The Collector as Sleuthsayer" by Louis Daniel Brodsky; "Faulkner's Women" by Ellen Douglas; "Cooper, Faulkner, and the American Venture" by Charles H. Nilon; "The Gothicism of 'Absalom, Absalom!:' Rosa Coldfield Revisited" by Francois L. Pitavy; "Blacks in Motion" by Charles H. Nilon; "The Myriad Heart: The Evolution of the Faulkner Hero" by James B. Carothers; "Faulkner in Time" by Ellen Douglas. ISBN 0878051430.…

xiv, 317 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 14.75cm. Gray paper covers lightly rubbed with minor scuffs at edges; slight bumping/wear at covers' fore-edge corners. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A very good+ copy. Comprised of "Papers presented at the 12th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi, 1985." "William Faulkner: Life and Art" by Joseph Blotner; "The Mutual Relevance of Faulkner Studies and Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry" by Ilse Dusoir Lind; "Faulkner's Critics and Women: The Voice of the Community" by John N. Duvall; "Women in Faulkner's Novels: Author's Attitude and Artistic Function" by Sergei Chakovsky; "Meditations on the Other: Faulkner's Rendering of Women" by Philip M. Weinstein; "Mothers and Daughters in Endless Procession: Faulkner's Use of the Demeter/Persephone Myth" by Mimi R. Gladstein; "Desire and Despair: Temple Drake's Self-Victimization" by Robert R. Moore; "In Praise of Helen" by Andre Bleikasten; "Joe Christmas and 'Womanshenegro'" by Doreen Fowler; "Faulkner and Womankind - 'No Bloody Moon'" by Winifred L. Frazer; "Woman and the Feminine in 'A Fable'" by Noel Polk; "Woman and the Making of the New World: Faulkner's Short Stories" by Alexandre Vashchenko; "Double Murder: The Women of Faulkner's 'Elly'" by Alice Hall Petry; "Faulkner's Hen-House: Woman as Bounded Text" by Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz; "Faulkner and Women Writers" by Judith Bryant Wittenberg; and "Faulkner and Women" by Toni Morrison. {LitCrit-Shelf#1} ISBN 0878053123.…

xviii, 243 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 5.25cm. Glossy paper covers lightly rubbed; slight bumping at spine heel and at bottom of rear cover. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. A near fine copy. A collection of essays and papers presented at the 11th Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in July 1984 held at the University of Mississippi. With Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Essays: "Humor as Vision in Faulkner" by James M. Cox; "Jason Compson: The Demoralized Wit" by William N. Claxon, Jr.; "The Comic World of 'As I Lay Dying'" by Patricia R. Schroeder; "The Levity of 'Light in August'" by Virginia V. Hlavsa; "Faulkner's 'Was' and Uncle Adam's Cow" by Daniel Hoffman; "'A Momentary Anesthesia of the Heart': A Study of the Comic Elements in Faulkner's 'Go Down, Moses'" by Nancy B. Sederberg; "Twain and Faulkner: Miscegenation and the Comic Muse" by William Bedford Clark; "What Faulkner Learned from the Tall Tale" by Thomas L. McHaney; "Faulkner's Humor: A European View" by Hans Bungert; "Faulkner Reads the Funny Papers" by M. Thomas Inge; "Faulkner and the Small Man" by Barry Hannah; "Lacan and Faulkner: A Post-Freudian Analysis of Humor in the Fiction" by James M. Mellard; and "'Fix My Hair, Jack:' The Dark Side of Faulkner's Jokes" by George Garrett. ISBN 0878052828.…

xiv, 351 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 14.75cm. Brown paper covers; ding and slight scuffing to spine head. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. With Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Features fourteen essays: "From Jefferson to the World" by Calvin S. Brown; "Faulkner's Spanish Voice/s" by Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz; "Yoknapatawpha in Santiago de Chile" by Jorge Edwards; "Faulkner and the British: Episodes in a Literary Relationship" by Mick Gidley; "From Vignette to Vision: The 'Old, Fine Name of France' or Faulkner's 'Western Front' from Crevasse' to A Fable" by Michel Gresset; "Faulkner in Italy" by Agostino Lombardo; "Faulkner's Graphic Work in Historical Context" by Lothar Honnighausen; "Teaching Faulkner in the Soviet Union" by M. Thomas Inge; "The Perception of William Faulkner in the USSR" by Alexandre Vashchenko; "William Faulkner in Soviet Literary Criticism" by Sergei Chakovsky; "The Hound and the Antelope: Faulkner in China" by H.R. Stoneback; "'Native Soil' and the World Beyond: William Faulkner and Japanese Novelists" by Kenzaburo Ohashi; "Il Penseroso and L'Allegro: The Poetics of a Faulkner Collector" by Louis Daniel Brodsky; "From the World to Jefferson" by Joseph Blotner. APPENDIXES A-G: "Selected Recent British Writing on Faulkner" by Mick Gidley; "Faulkner in Spanish" by Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz; "Spanish Criticism of Faulkner 1932-1959" by Myriam Diaz-Diocaretz; "Faulkner in German" by Monika Bruckner; "A Chronology of Faulkner Translations into Russian" by M. Thomas Inge; "A Checklist of Faulkner Translations into Chinese" by H.R. Stoneback; "Faulkner in Japanese" by Kenzaburo Ohashi. ISBN 0878052178. …

xiv, 169 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Stiff paper covers rubbed. Pages are bright and clean and binding remains fairly crisp. A very good copy. Features: the following: "Introduction;" "Welcome Address" by C.E. Noyes; "Faulkner's Localism" by Calvin S. Brown, "The Faulknerian Voice" by Albert J. Guerard; "Sex & History: Origins of Faulkner's Apocrypha" by Lewis P. Simpson; "Faulkner the Innovator" by Albert J. Guerard; "Faulkner's Women" by Ilse Dusoir Lind; "Faulkner & Race" by Margaret Walker Alexander; "Yoknapatawpha & Faulkner's Fable of Civilization" by Lewis P. Simpson; and "Faulkner's Universality" by Calvin S. Brown. ISBN 0878050752.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. A collection of 50 stories from the first 33 years of Story magazine, arranged alphabetically by author from Sherwood Anderson to Cornell Woolrich. Includes contributions from Truman Capote, Kay Boyle, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Mary O'Hara, Graham Greene , Henry Treece, Cornell Woolrich, Evan Hunter, Carson McCullers, Dawn Powell and many others. Includes a foreword by the editors and a chronological memo on the magazine. xvi, 589 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. (minor wea, original price of 5.95 on dj flap).…

First edition thus (some material previously published in The Mississippi Quarterly #26, Summer 1973 issue). x, 166 pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.75cm. Brown dust jacket lightly soiled, short closed tear at front panel's top left with removal of past bookseller's sticker causing patch of peeling at front panel's top right, some bumping at edges. Beige cloth with vibrant gilt and black stamping to spine. Yellowish-brown top edge; brown endpapers. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A fine copy in a very good- dust jacket. Features a "collection ⦠[of] texts, criticism, and biographical studies of a number of the unpublished writings of William Faulkner" with the following: Editor's Foreword; "William Faulkner's 'Marionettes'" by Noel Polk; "The Elmer Papers: Faulkner's Comic Portraits of the Artist" by Thomas L. McHaney; "A Census of Manuscripts and Typescripts of William Faulkner's Poetry" by Keen Butterworth; "Faulkner on the Literature of the First World War" by Michael Millgate; "Faulkner and the World War II Monument in Oxford" by James B. Meriwether; "New Material for Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust'" by Patrick Samway, S.J.; "Faulkner's Typescripts of 'The Town'" by Eileen Gregory; "William Faulkner's Own Collection of His Books in 1959" by James B. Meriwether; "'Hong Li' and 'Royal Street:' The New Orleans Sketches in Manuscript" by Noel Polk; plus five essays by William Faulkner - "And Now What's to Do;" "Nympholepsy;" "An Introduction to 'The Sound and the Fury;'" "A Note on 'A Fable;'" and "Faulkner's Speech of Acceptance for the Andres Bello Award, Caracas, 1961." {LitCrit Shelf #4} ISBN 0878050515.…

First edition thus (some material previously published in The Mississippi Quarterly #26, Summer 1973 issue). x, 166 pages. Hardcover; H 23.75cm x L 15.75cm. Dark brown dust jacket lightly soiled, circular impression from removed sticker at top right of front panel. Beige cloth with vibrant gilt and black stamping upon spine. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Summarized upon the dj front panel as a "collection ⦠[of] texts, criticism, and biographical studies of a number of the unpublished writings of William Faulkner." Features the following: Editor's Foreword; "William Faulkner's 'Marionettes'" by Noel Polk; "The Elmer Papers: Faulkner's Comic Portraits of the Artist" by Thomas L. McHaney; "A Census of Manuscripts and Typescripts of William Faulkner's Poetry" by Keen Butterworth; "Faulkner on the Literature of the First World War" by Michael Millgate; "Faulkner and the World War II Monument in Oxford" by James B. Meriwether; "New Material for Faulkner's 'Intruder in the Dust'" by Patrick Samway, S.J.; "Faulkner's Typescripts of 'The Town'" by Eileen Gregory; "William Faulkner's Own Collection of His Books in 1959" by James B. Meriwether; "'Hong Li' and 'Royal Street:' The New Orleans Sketches in Manuscript" by Noel Polk; plus five essays by William Faulkner - "And Now What's to Do;" "Nympholepsy;" "An Introduction to 'The Sound and the Fury;'" "A Note on 'A Fable;'" and "Faulkner's Speech of Acceptance for the Andres Bello Award, Caracas, 1961." {LitCrit Shelf #1} ISBN 0878050515.…

Ex-library copy. Reprint (first published 1964). xii, 191 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. Lacks dust jacket. Blue cloth rubbed with light spotting, library shelf sticker affixed near spine heel. Foxing and toning to edges; library stamp on bottom edge. Library stamp upon title page; pencil notation on copyright page; top corner of pages 189-190 creased from past fold-down; library pocket on rear free endpaper. No other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal. Three ink check marks on Table of Contents page; foxing at top corners of pages 187-191. Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Features the following: Foreword by R.C. Simonini, Jr.; THE WRITER AS PARIAH IN THE OLD SOUTH by Willard Thorp; POE IN RICHMOND; THE DOUBLE IMAGE by Robert D. Jacobs; THE IMAGE OF AN ARMY; THE CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHERN FICTION, by Lewis D. Rubin, Jr; MARY JOHNSTON AND THE HISTORIC IMAGINATION by Lawrence G. Nelson; ELLEN GLASGOW AND THE SOUTHERN LITERARY TRADITION by C. Hugh Holman; JAMES BRANCH CABELL AND SOUTHERN ROMANTICISM by Dorothy B. Schlegel; FAULKNER AND THE SOUTH by James B. Meriwether; THE YOUNGEST GENERATION OF SOUTHERN FICTION WRITERS by Richard K. Meeker.…

Third printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page) SIGNED BY BOTH EDITORS AND THE BOOK'S ILLUSTRATOR. vi, 209 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Tan cloth spine; green boards. Light foxing to text block edges. Non-authorial half-page red ink inscription on half-title page. Green ink signature of co-editor Judy Tucker with red ink signature of co-editor Charline R. McCord followed by black ink signature of illustrator Wyatt Waters all on title page adjacent to their printed names. Slight vertical creasing to rear leaves; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. Laid-in between front free endpaper and half-title is bookmark from Jackson, Mississippi's Lemuria bookstore where undoubtedly the book was signed. Features short stories and excerpts by Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Judy H. Tucker, Ellen Gilchrist, Chris Gilmer, Caroline Langston, Clifton L. Taulbert, Nancy Isonhood, Barry Hannah, Charline R. McCord, Jerry L. Bustin, Elizabeth Spencer, Carolyn Haines, Edward Cohen, Jacqueline Wheelock, Marion Barnwell, and Willie Morris with illustrations by Jackson, Mississippi artist Wyatt Waters who is noted for his vibrant streetscape watercolors. {MS-Shelf#8} ISBN 1578063817. …

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 266pp, ink name to fep, otherwise a nice copy. A collection of 17 short stories by the leading exponents of the genre. 300 grams.

Third printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page; first published 2001). vi, 209 pages. Hardcover: H 25.75cm x L 18.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; slight bumping to spine and flap fold heads. Tan cloth spine; green boards. Interior leaves are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Features short stories and excerpts by Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Judy H. Tucker, Ellen Gilchrist, Chris Gilmer, Caroline Langston, Clifton L. Taulbert, Nancy Isonhood, Barry Hannah, Charline R. McCord, Jerry L. Bustin, Elizabeth Spencer, Carolyn Haines, Edward Cohen, Jacqueline Wheelock, Marion Barnwell, and Willie Morris with illustrations by Jackson, Mississippi artist Wyatt Waters who is noted for his vibrant streetscape watercolors. {MS-Shelf#9} ISBN 1578063817.…

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). vi, 209 pages. Hardcover: H 25.75cm x L 18.25cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; spine heel bumped; strong curling at top of rear panel. Tan cloth spine with heel bumped; green boards. Interior leaves are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Features short stories and excerpts by Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Judy H. Tucker, Ellen Gilchrist, Chris Gilmer, Caroline Langston, Clifton L. Taulbert, Nancy Isonhood, Barry Hannah, Charline R. McCord, Jerry L. Bustin, Elizabeth Spencer, Carolyn Haines, Edward Cohen, Jacqueline Wheelock, Marion Barnwell, and Willie Morris with illustrations by Jackson, Mississippi artist Wyatt Waters who is noted for his vibrant streetscape watercolors. {MS-Shelf#7} ISBN 1578063817.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrappers with foxing.

80 pages plus covers. Staple-bound magazine (paperback). Some rubbing and soiling to covers; slight scuffing and creases at edges; spine head nicked with short tear at heel. Staples rusted but binding remains firm. Issue regarding William Faulkner. Essays/articles include "Faulkner 'Discovered'" by Robert Allen Carpenter; "Faulkner And Camus" by J. Giorgini; "The Bookman's Faulkner" by Lelia Clark Wynn; "Foote-Note On Faulkner" by Edwin Howard; "Bill Faulkner At Ole Miss" by Lucy Somerville Howorth; "The Rights of Man" (speech) by William Faulkner. "Elizabeth Spencer Talks" by The Editors; "Robert Penn Warren" by The Spark by Kenneth R. Tolliver; etc.…

Condition: NEAR FINE. Hardcover. Uncommon publisher's promotional issue, aimed at potential advertisers, with a printed label pasted on front pastedown and a printed acetate dust jacket. Includes "The Waifs" by William Faulkner, "The Iron Lady" by Conrad Richter, "Good-by, Grandma" by Ray Bradbury, a novelette "The Actress and the Cop" by William Saroyan and stories by Frank O'Connor, Geoffrey Household, Louis Paul and others. vi, 314 pp. Near fine in publisher's near fine printed acetate dust jacket (glue residue on front endpaper, from promotional material pasted in, corner of 1 page creased, 2 small chips at top of spine of jacket) - overall a tight and attractive copy, gray cloth and red panel are bright and fresh. …

First edition (not stated) SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. viii, 160 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 22.25cm. Red dust jacket lightly rubbed; slight nicks at flap fold heads; bumping at rear panel's top edge; front flap is not price-clipped. Blue spine; red boards. Small stain to text block's top edge with some leaves fractionally affected at their top margins; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with editor and contributor Larry Wells' ink signature on title page. With Editor's Note by Larry Wells [Lawrence Wells], b/w photographs throughout with occasional color plates, and concluding section of Lettermen and Season Records. Features a collection of fourteen essays and reminiscences regarding Ole Miss football by contributors Warner Alford, Billy Brewer, David Sansing, Dean Faulkner Wells (contributing "To Be a Scrub"), Charles Overby, Willie Morris (contributing "Heroes in the Rain," "The Dog Comes Home," and "In the Spirit of the Game"), William Winter ("The Golden Age"), James A. Autry, Barry Hannah (contributing "A Dream of the Big Contender"), John Grisham ("The Return"), Billy Watkins, and Larry Wells. {SportsShelf#3} ISBN 1563520729.…

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). xvi, 272 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Green dust jacket rubbed with light scuffing; closed 1.5cm tear at front panel's lower left corner. Green cloth. A still fairly crisp near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Features Introduction and short biographical summary of contributors along with the following twelve essays: "Did You See Him Pain?" by Joseph Blotner; "'A Cosmos of My Own': The Evolution of Yoknapatawpha" by Michael Millgate; "Flags in the Dust and Satoris" by Merle Wallace Keiser; "'Strange Times' in Yoknapatawpha;" by John Pilkington; "Faulkner's First Trilogy: Satoris, Sanctuary, and Requiem for a Nun" by Michael Millgate; "Faulkner and Respectability" by Noel Polk; "Faulkner: The House of Fiction" by James G. Watson; "'I Taken an Oath of Office Too': Faulkner and the Law" by Noel Polk; "Faulkner's Curious Tools" by Thomas L. McHaney; "Faulkner's Short Stories and the Making of Yoknapatawpha County" by James G. Watson; "Watching for the Dixie Limited: Faulkner's Impact upon the Creative Writer" by Thomas L. McHaney; and "The Sources of Faulkner's Genius" by Joseph Blotner. ISBN 087805121X.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ed. by Herschel Brickell. Moderate wear/soil/foxing; good (only) in a well-worn dj w/ several chips, including a sizeable one at head of spine. Faulkner contributes "Two Soldiers" (22 pp.); Welty "The Wide Net" (30 pp.); Stegner "Two Rivers" (18 pp.).…

COMPLETE FOUR VOLUME SET. All paperback, H 22.75cm x L 14.75cm. Past owner's ink signature at center of each front cover verso. ***** VOLUME I - ISBN 0878052321. xlii, 785 pages. Blue paper covers rubbed; scuffing at edges and along joints. Ink signature of Glennray Tutor on half-title page (the University of Mississippi artist contributed the front cover illustrations for all four volumes in the set). Two-line ink inscription "Best wishes, | Dorothy Abbott" on title page. Tupelo, Mississippi newspaper clipping taped to rfep verso; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. ***** VOLUME II - ISBN 0878052348. xxxii, 735 pages. Red paper covers lightly rubbed with slight scuffing at edges. Editor's seven-line ink inscription dated July 9, 1986 on title page; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. ***** VOLUME III - ISBN 0878052364. xxxvi, 423 pages. Dark orange paper covers lightly rubbed; minor bumping at spine heel. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. ***** VOLUME IV - ISBN 0878052380. xvi, 606 pages. Green paper covers lightly rubbed. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. ***** Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 8.25 pounds (3.74 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. FFirst edition. Ear fine in a Vg. + DJ. (Light traces of shelfwear to DJ. Spine on DJ. Lightly age toned) Terrific line-up of writers including: Henry Miller's "The alcoholic veteran with the washboard cranium" Ernest Hemingway's "The light of the world" William Faulkner's "Fox hunt" & Eudora Welty's "The hitch-hikers." There are several other notable stories in this collection. ; 5" x 7 3/4"; 266 pages.…

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); dark sage green paper-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-317,[3]pp. Inscribed by Karloff on the front endpaper: "To Don / with every good wish / Boris Karloff / Jan 5/44." Some external wear, shallow chipping to crown, hint of sunning to spine, with some mild bubbling to paper and lower front cover, offsetting and some mild discoloration to endpapers, and the usual tanning to the text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is edgeworn, with corresponding tears and creasing to upper spine panel, a few tiny nick and tears, and a small splash mark to upper front flap; Very Good or better. Offered together with a three-page ALS from Karloff to Dr. E.M. Sheare (the publisher of this volume), composed in black pen on three sheets of Arsenic and Old Lace letterhead (measuring ca.8.5" x 11") and dated about five months prior to publication (May 20, 1943); 49 lines (280 words), signed "as ever, Boris." Two old folds from mailing smoothed out, some very subtle toning to extremities, else Fine, together with the original mailing envelope. All housed in a custom quarter-morocco drop-backed clamshell case. Scarce first printing of this cheaply-manufactured wartime anthology of "terror stories," all selected by Karloff, who has written a generous six-page introduction. The contents include contributions by Bram Stoker ("The Judge's House"), Ambrose Bierce ("The Damned Thing"), William Faulkner ("The Hound"), Edgar Allan Poe ("The Tell-Tale Heart"), Algernon Blackwood ("The Willows"), and Oliver Onions ("The Beckoning Fair One"), among others. The letter to his editor is particularly insightful, showing Karloff's strong opinions regarding what merited inclusion: "I am quite firm against Dunsany's "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow." It is beautiful and imaginative and all that but it no in [sic] sense fits our patterns.For reasons of space I think we could omit (I) Dunsany, (II) Woman at Seven Brothers (III) Shipment or Mute Fate or (IV) Breakdown / which is interesting but not terror. Hugh Binson's tale I consider a must, also The Waxwork - I've had three invitations to dinner without points on the telling of that one! I am enclosing the amended list for your consideration. By all means "The Beckoning Fair One" should be in last place in the book, on the score of length and excellence." Uncommon inscribed, with a lengthy contemporary ALS. 8614. …