Priest or Pagan de John Rathbone Oliver - 1933

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good-. 1933. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Minor speckling on rear board. ; 8vo; xii, 461, [1] pages; Decorated black cloth, spine and front board decorated in red and silver, top edge red. .

New York: Knopf, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Publisher's black decorative cloth, designed in red & silver. Borzoi patterned end papers. Red top edge. In Bleiler. A VG++ copy with boards really bright and clean. Firm hinges. No inscriptions. In the original first issue dustwrapper with price of 42.50 Net to the top righty-hand corner of the front flap (as called for). The dustwrapper has 1.3 cm shallow chipping at the head of the spine (removing most of PRIEST and a couple of other chips elsewhere not affecting any lettering. Photographs/scans available upon request.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. First edition. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with several tiny tears to the upper panel and a touch of shelf wear to the head of the spine panel. An attractive copy. (25506). Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-viii] ix-xii [xiii-xiv] [1-2] 3-461 [462: "a note on the type..."] [463-464: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and silver, running Borzoi stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained red, other edges rough-trimmed, decorated end papers. An evil man acquires supernatural powers. "The protagonist, disadvantaged by birth and breeding, becomes ripe for conversion to the cause of evil and is helped on that road by the aptly named Hell Fire, with whose aid he eventually embarks on catastrophic occult experiments. An over elaborate but intriguing allegory." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-154. "A long, fully developed novel, with much creative detail and some good… Leer más