Intercessor Stories by Sinclair: First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. No date given, but 1932. Presumed first UK edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket. First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in purple cloth binding in fair dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to top corners and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with chipping along edges and scuffing to covers. Dj's spine is heavily browned. Dj has large chip missing from upper corner of front cover, another large chip on heel of spine and smaller chips missing from head of spine. Page edges are lightly browned. 222 pages. The stories in this work are: 1. The Mahatma's Story, 2. Jones's Karma, 3. Heaven, 4. The Intercessor, 5. The Villa Desiree. One of two collections of supernatural fiction by this English suffragist and early feminist author, whose writing was praised by both Orwell and Agatha Christie. Supernatural fiction bibliographer E. F. Bleiler considered her an underrated author and contributor to the genre.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Intercessor: And Other Stories by May Sinclair (First Edition) A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners. Bright color and gilt. Clean interior; appears unread. Clipped, but not price-clipped. Mild wear to jacket edges. Mild fading and soiling to yellow jacket. Mild tanning to spine. In clear protective cover. Title page dated 1932. Printed and published February 1932, stated. Purple cloth with gilt lettering; fore-edges rough trimmed. 221 pp. Collection of five supernatural stories. "British novelist May Sinclair, like her predecessor, Rhoda Broughton, was primarily concerned with using supernatural devices to explore the difficulties and seeming perversities of amatory psychology, and she did so with considerable dexterity", Brian Stableford, St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, 1998, p. 539. BOOK.…

First Edition. THE INTERCESSOR AND SHORT STORIES, Macmillan, 1932, first edition, near fine in good to very good dust-wrapper with some modest chipping save missing the lower 25% of the dust-wrapper spine.