The Hill of Trouble and Other Stories
London: Isbister & Co. Limited, 1903. Very Good. Item #49711
London: Isbister & Co. Limited, 1903. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt; [6],398,[8]pp. Textblock margins foxed and front free endpaper neatly removed; still, a Very Good, bright and sound copy. With bright purple contemporary ex libris of W.H. Smith & Son's Subscription Library to front pastedown, listing location (186, Strand and "at the railway stalls") together with terms.
The author's first collection of ghost stories originally composed for his students at Magdalene College, Cambridge. A second collection, The Isles of Sunset, appeared a year later.
Price: $750.00