TALES OF A CRUEL COUNTRY

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in the E. Morrow illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's catalogue dated August 1919 to the rear. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and darkened dustwrapper that has several short closed tears and a chip at the head of the spine extending to the upper panel. Correctly priced 7/- net to the spine. A very scarce dustwrapper.

A Hubin listed collection of 22 sometimes dark short stories involving death, suicide, madness etc.