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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wilma Ervin; (illustrator). Book Club Edition. 415 pp. Quarter-bound in black on black boards; lettered in gilt on the spine. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some rubbing on the lower left of the front panel; no interior markings. Dj art by Wilma Ervin. This anthology contains: Under the Hammer by Georges Simenon; Poison a la Carte by Rex Stout; Lambs to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl; Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie; The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin; Bribery and Corruption by Ruth Rendell; Chef d'Oeuvre by Paul Gallico; La Specialite de M Duclos by Oliver La Farge; Three or Four for Dinner by L. P. Hartley; A Terrible Tale by Gaston Leroux; So You Won't Talk by Damon Runyon; Sauce for the Goose by Patricia Highsmith; A Very Commonplace Murder by P. D. James; A Dinner at Imola by August Derleth; The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch; The Three Low Masses by Alphonse Daudet; The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin; Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving; The Compleat Housewife by Richard Dehan; The Case of Mr Lucraft by Walter Besant and James Rice; The Man who Couldn't Taste Pepper by G. B. Stern; Final Dining by Roger Zelazny; The Long Dinner by H. C. Bailey; The Assassins' Club by Nicholas Blake; Dinner for Two by Roy Vickers; A Case for Gourmets by Michael Gilbert; and Rum for Dinner by Lawrence G. Blochman. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wilma Ervin; (illustrator). First American Edition. 415 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; previous owner's name inked out on the front free endpaper. This anthology contains: The Specialty of the House by Stanley Ellin; Bribery and Corruption by Ruth Rendell; Chef d'Oeuvre by Paul Gallico; La Specialite de M Duclos by Oliver La Farge; Three or Four for Dinner by L. P. Hartley; A Terrible Tale by Gaston Leroux; So You Won't Talk by Damon Runyon; Sauce for the Goose by Patricia Highsmith; A Very Commonplace Murder by P. D. James; A Dinner at Imola by August Derleth; The Feast in the Abbey by Robert Bloch; The Three Low Masses by Alphonse Daudet; The Coffin-Maker by Alexander Pushkin; Guests from Gibbet Island by Washington Irving; The Compleat Housewife by Richard Dehan; The Case of Mr Lucraft by Walter Besant and James Rice; The Man who Couldn't Taste Pepper by G. B. Stern; Final Dining by Roger Zelazny; Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie; The Long Dinner by H. C. Bailey; The Assassins' Club by Nicholas Blake; Dinner for Two by Roy Vickers; A Case for Gourmets by Michael Gilbert; Rum for Dinner by Lawrence G. Blochman; Under the Hammer by Georges Simenon; Poison a la Carte by Rex Stout; and Lambs to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket as issued. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Hardcover. 382p., introduction, afterword, cast of characters, illustrations, very good first edition in green buckram boards with vampire vignette, price-clipped dj with spot of discoloration on rear panel and small tear at hinge. Wonderful collection of short horror tales by the masters upon which films were made, as in: "The Foghorn"/"Beast From 20,000 Fathoms".

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 340 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.77 inches. In Stock.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Paperback Original collection of horror stories. Reading creasing to the spine. Edge rubbing to the covers with some light surface creasing. Page edges browned with a little staining to the top inner corners at the front, some browning to the edges of the insides of the covers. Small creases to the top corners a few pages and yellow spots to a few pages here and there but pages otherwise unmarked. First printing.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 704 pages. 10.00x7.01x1.42 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 684 pages. 10.00x7.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.