Dedicated "to all students of the supernatural in literature," this volume collects twenty satanic and occult stories by Washington Irving, Thackeray, Poe, Arthur Symons, Guy de Maupassant, among others. In his introduction, Rudwin writes, "The Devil is the greatest enigma that has ever confronted the human intelligence. So large a place has Satan taken in our imagination, and we might also say in our heart, that his expulsion therefrom, � must always remain an impossibility.". First edition. Publisher s red cloth stamped and lettered in gilt and black, lower and fore-edges uncut. xx, 332 pp. 7 1/2 x 5 in. Bookplate of H.F. Turner to front pastedown, booklabel of J.W. Robinson to rear pastedown. Good; hinges a bit weak, spine darkened with a tear and with loss at head and tail, a bit rubbed, lacking the dustjacket.

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Devil Stories

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Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Publication Date

1921

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Dust Jacket Included

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