Published by Longmans Green and Edward Arnold, New York and London, 1948
Seller: Boo-Hooray, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. The second and final collection of ghost stories by Sir Andre Caldecott, a British colonial administrator who served as the governor of Hong Kong and later as the governor of Sri Lanka. The work distills his lifelong fascination with the supernatural into simple, yet disturbing, Jamesian stories. First edition. Dark blue cloth over light blue cloth, lettered and stamped in black. 222 pp. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. Warren Bowers Dexter's bookplate to front pastedown. Good; lacking the dustjacket, a bit rubbed, hinges a bit weak.