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Algernon Blackwood | First Editions
1869 - 1951
Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, and was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. Blackwood was one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. His works include: The Haunted Island (1906), The Willows (1907), John Silence (1908), The Human Chord (1910), The Wendigo (1910), and A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913), along with many others.In tales such as “The Willows” (1908) unease is generated by ambiguity that mixes the weird with a talent for writing about wild or rural places—a break with the past and the classic haunted house. Although Lovecraft thought Blackwood a master of the ghost story, Blackwood famously was not as impressed with Lovecraft. Noted critic S. T. Joshi has stated that Blackwood’s short story collection Incredible Adventures“may be the premier weird collection” of the twentieth century. Along with Alfred Kubin and F. Marion Crawford, among others, Blackwood helped usher in the modern era of weird fiction. [Weird Fiction Review]
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The Lost Valley and Other Stories.
London: Nash and Grayson, 1931. [Strange Tales] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.328. Publisher's red cloth, black titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6 to backstrip. Lightly toned internally, some faint spotting to preliminaries. Offsetting to the first and last few leaves. Various small ownership stamps..... More
Strange Stories.
London: William Heinemann, 1929. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 745 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Toning to textblock edges, pencil ownership inscription, light spotting to preliminaries, else internally clean. Wearing to edges, more so spine and board corners, shaken in binding, light..... More
Strange Stories.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1929. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 745 [3]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. A bit of spotting, mostly to endpapers, preliminaries, and textblock edges. Minor rubbing/marking to boards. Gentle edgewear. Very good. A collection of twenty-six short stories which Blackwood..... More
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