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Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (18514). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras produced for legal deposit purposes. Twenty six stories, ten featuring the occult detective Francis Chard, two other stories and a novella (all first appearance in book form) and a reprint of the thirteen story contents of SOME GHOST STORIES.

[London]: Cecil Palmer, [1927]. First edition. Light foxing to early and late leaves and to edges, rear hinge cracked, small split and several tiny pinholes to rear exterior hinge, corners soft with rear corner worn, a good copy. (28401). Octavo, [1-2] [i-iv] vvii [viii] 1-276 [277-78], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in white, bottom edge untrimmed. The first of Burrage's two collections of weird fiction (the other was SOMEONE IN THE ROOM [1931] published under the pseudonym "Ex-Private X"). "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-43. "The best stories in SOME GHOST STORIES and SOMEONE IN THE ROOM are intelligent, well crafted, and imaginative..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 64. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 47. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 314. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 43-4. Tymn (ed),… Leer más

[London]: Cecil Palmer, [1927]. First edition. Some foxing to prelims and last leaf, mild wear to spine ends and corners, a very good copy. (11450). Octavo, [1-2] [i-iv] vvii [viii] 1-276 [277-78], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in white, bottom edge untrimmed. The first of Burrage's two collections of weird fiction (the other was SOMEONE IN THE ROOM [1931] published under the pseudonym "Ex-Private X"). "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-43. "The best stories in SOME GHOST STORIES and SOMEONE IN THE ROOM are intelligent, well crafted, and imaginative..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 64.