Strange Tales from the Strand Magazine (First Edition Review Copy)

Adrian, Jack; Editor

ISBN 10: 019212305X / ISBN 13: 9780192123053

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991

About this Item

8vo., 373pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition. Anthology with classic stories by Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, H.G. Wells, and many others. Foreword by Julian Symons. Bound in black cloth with lettering in gold on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. No toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust jacket is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. Publisher's review slip laid in. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.

Seller Inventory # 017154

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strange Tales from the Strand Magazine (First Edition Review Copy)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019212305X
• ISBN 13: 9780192123053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthology/Short Stories
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

About this title

Synopsis

Containing twenty-nine stories of the weird and uncanny, all originally published in the Strand, this collection is an enthralling mix of horror and the supernatural, unnatural disasters, madness, and revenge. We read of a germ that turned the world blind in Edgar Wallace's "The Black Grippe." In "A Sense of the Future," the world supply of oil gives out, cars become obsolete, and after three months we have returned to the days of horse-drawn carriages. In other tales, a camera takes pictures of the future, and a 1971 newspaper is pushed through a mail slot forty years earlier. With spine-tingling stories from the likes of Sapper, Graham Greene, D.H. Lawrence, and Arthur Conan Doyle, and a comic fantasy by H.G. Wells, as well as two tales from the children's writer E. Nesbit, Strange Tales from the Strand provides a rich collection for all lovers of the macabre.

About the Author

About the Editor: Jack Adrian is the author of several thrillers as well as war and science fiction novels. An authority on this century's popular and genre fiction, he has compiled a number of anthologies and single-author collections, and has edited E.F. Benson, and Desirable Residences and Other Stories.