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HARTLEY (L.P.) Night Fears and other Stories, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1924] image 1
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HARTLEY (L.P.)
Night Fears and other Stories, FIRST EDITION, [1924]

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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HARTLEY (L.P.)

Night Fears and other Stories, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, half-title, minor foxing throughout, light off-setting of jacket flaps onto front free endpapers, untrimmed in publisher's green buckram gilt (light edgewear), pictorial dust-jacket priced 7/6 (spine soiled with some loss to head and foot), 8vo, G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1924]

Footnotes

FORREST REID'S COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, consisting of ghost and other short stories, some of which had appeared in the undergraduate magazine Oxford Outlook, of which Hartley had been the editor.

Provenance: Forrest Reid (1875-1944, Irish novelist), signed on front free endpaper.

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