Keep Light by Thomson, Signed (1 results)

First edition, first printing. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-254 [255-256: blank] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and endpaper; last leaf is a blank used as rear paste-down], cloth. Collects fifteen stories. A significant volume as it has the first book appearance of the Robert E. Howard's Worms of the Earth (his second story to be published in a book). Authors include Hester Gaskell Holland, Oscar Cook, Henry S. Whitehead, Robert E. Howard-Worms of the Earth, Flavia Richardson (pseudonym of C.C. Thomson), Bassett Morgan, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, J. Dyott Matthews, J.D. Kerruish, Warden Ledge, Don C. Wiley, Guy Preston, Hugh B. Cave, Rosalie Muspratt and Clark Ashton Smith. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-195. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1593. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-301. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Reginald 14081]. Penciled name and date to front paste down, cheap text paper moderately tanned, mild darkening to spine and upper and right front edges, a very good copy in a good dust jacket, priced 2/-, with wear at corner tips and a small closed tear to upper front panel, chipping with loss at head of spine panel, closed tears along fold edges, small chip at mid spine next to rear fold, small chip at lower spine panel. (28411).