Item #14470 Creep, Shadow! A. Merritt.
Creep, Shadow!

Creep, Shadow!

New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. Very Good / Very Good. Item #14470

New York: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [x], 301pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in dark navy / nearly-black cloth with green lettering and illustration to spine. over green cloth with black lettering and illustration to spine. Green topstain. Jacket restored by prior owner with full backing in archival tissue and color fills / touch-ups along edges and at a few spots down spine and folds; evidence under light of prior shallow chips and tears along edges, occasionally touching now hand-restored text, with some current toning and smudging to surface. Boards lightly shelfworn with some nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Bleiler calls this "a sequel of sorts to Burn Witch Burn!" though more in mood and title echo (the 1935 London / Methuen edition nodded more directly with the title Creep, Shadow, Creep!). First serialized in Argosy.

[Bleiler Supernatural 1162].

Price: $250.00

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