THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL AND OTHER STORIES

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping at the spine tips and minor rubbing at the corners. The contents with the occasional light finger mark to the margins are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Catalogue to the rear dated Autumn 1936. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is mildly toned to the spine and with evidence of three previously removed pieces of tape to underside. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. An attractive example of a scarce title in first edition, exceptionally so in dustwrapper.

A collection of six supernatural and fantasy tales in first edition comprising The Exalted Omega; The Children of the Pool; The Bright Boy; The Tree of Life; Out of the Picture; Change. George Locke rated this title, along with The Cosy Room (1936) "probably the hardest of Machen's books, issued by a trade publisher to find". This title went into several early reprints. (Bleiler; Locke: Spectrum of Fantasy).