THE EDGE OF THE CHAIR

New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. 8vo. 560 pp. Green cloth decorated in gilt and black on the front panel and spine; black endpapers; black upper edge. Light wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: The Sixth Capsule, or Proof by Circumstantial Evidence by Edmund Pearson; Fool's Mate by Stanley Ellin; The Axeman Wore Wings by Robert Tallant; Stone from the Stars by Valentina Zhuravleva; The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin; Billy: The Seal Mission by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden; A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce; Tea Party by Harold Pinter; Death Draws a Triangle by Edward Hale Bierstadt; The Net by Robert M. Coates; Prisoner of the Sand by Antoine de Saint Exupery; The End of the Party by Graham Greene; The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries by Andre Castelot; Jesting Pilot by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore); Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth's Escape by William G. Shepherd; A Piece of Steak by Jack London; The Game of Murder by Gerd Gaiser; On the Killing of Eratosthenes the Seducer by Kathleen Freeman; The Adventure of Clapham Cook by Agatha Christie; The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury; They by Rudyard Kipling; The Chair by John Bartlow Martin; Old Fags by Stacy Aumonier; Dead Men Working in Cane Fields by William Seabrook; How the Bridadier Lost His Ear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Dry September by William Faulkner; Rattenbury and Stone by T. Tennyson Jesse; Sing a Song of Sixpence by John Buchan; The Murder in Le Mans by Janet Flanner; Sleeping Beauty by John Collier; The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton; A Small Buried Treasure by John Fischer; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; and Scrawns by Dorothy L. Sayers..