Buttera) with wear and shallow nicks and tears along top and bottom edges, mainly spine ends and corner tips, small chip from bottom edge of front panel, and mild age-darkening, mainly to spine panel. Originally published in 1934, Seven Gothic Tales, the first book by 'one of the finest and most singular artists of our time' (The Atlantic), is a modern classic. A fine copy in good or better pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by F. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 542. Topics seven gothic tales Collection opensource Language English. "One of the most highly regarded modern authors of Gothic tales." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. Dinesen's first book, a collection of seven stories.
This first book, highly enigmatic and more metaphoric than Gothic, won great. v-x 1-420, title leaf and divisional leaves printed in red and black, title page printed in brown and black, original three-quarter red cloth and cream boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Her first book, Seven Gothic Tales, was published in the US in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen.
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