Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Collects seventeen stories, of which eight are printed here for the first time. Classic short story collection. Includes "The Crooked Man," a "dystopia of homosexual dominance." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 257. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 110. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 27. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-12. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-27. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at spine ends and corners, a couple of rubs to spine, and a small piece clipped from the fore-edge margin of the front flap that does not affect any typography or printed price. (#158771). Seller Inventory # 158771

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Title: THE HUNGER AND OTHER STORIES

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1957

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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