"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales.
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.359 [1]. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Blind stamp of W. H. Smith booksellers to front free endpaper and spine very lightly sunned, otherwise very good indeed. A collection of short stories noted particularly by Bleiler for 'The Horror on the Stair', in which an 18th century matron is driven to suicide by the guilt of an accusation of witchcraft she made before her marriage, which led to a conviction and execution. Item #48409
Bleiler, 'The Guide to Supernatural Fiction', 1359.
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