OPEN THE DOOR! A VOLUME OF STORIES .

Sitwell, Osbert

Published by Smith & Durrell, New York, 1941

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Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-299 [300-302] [note: first and last leaves are blanks]. title page printed in mauve and black, original decorated boards with black cloth shelf back, spine panel stamped in mauve and gold, all edges speckled, decorated endpapers. First edition. Collects eighteen stories. According to the UK (Macmillan) dust jacket flap, there runs through them "a new vein of the haunted and the haunting . a new sense of life's strange coincidences and the mysteries, only occasionally and in part to be perceived, which frame the Visible World." "Long Journey" is a ghost story. Osbert was the middle of three literary siblings (between Edith and Sacheverell), prominent in the years between the two World Wars, aristocratic modernists (or, as their critics might say, supercilious rabble-rousers). Osbert is remembered now chiefly for his five-volume autobiography (which covers other family members as well), but he also published poetry and fiction, among other things; some of his fiction is fantastic. Fifoot oA30b. NCBEL IV 348. A fine copy in good dust jacket with wear and short tears at edges, faded spine, dusty rear panel, and clipped price. (#118906). Seller Inventory # 118906

Bibliographic Details

Title: OPEN THE DOOR! A VOLUME OF STORIES .

Publisher: Smith & Durrell, New York

Publication Date: 1941

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition