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Keith Fleming. Can Such Things Be? Or the Weird of the Berefords: a Study in Occult Will-Power. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1890.

Price: US$224.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover, cloth-bound octavo published without a dust jacket is in Very Good++ condition with a strong spine showing no splitting or starting, strong hinges, firm corners, end-caps intact with no fraying, and no loose pages. Edges show some general rubbing and shelf-wear, with what appears to be some damp-staining on the top right edge of the front cover, which does not affect the text. Top edge gilt, embossed covers, 250 pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages

Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.

Fleming, Keith. CAN SUCH THINGS BE?" OR THE WEIRD OF THE BERESFORDS. A STUDY IN OCCULT WILL-POWER .. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1890.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8 [8a-8b] [9] 10-250, publisher's reddish brown cloth with blue cloth shelf back, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in gray. First edition. Issued simultaneously by Routledge in cloth and in yellowback format (see Topp, p. 401, not noting this deluxe binding). This copy "Sensational weird thriller of murder, mayhem and madness embellished with numerous supernatural elements, including a family curse, ghostly visitations, a spectral violin with music, etc. Horror piled upon horror, as was the convention of the time, but entertaining as an example of the 'raw head and bloody bones' side of Victorian weird fiction, lurid and unsophisticated." - Robert Knowlton. Bleiler (1978), p. 74. Reginald 05477. Wolff 2264 (recording the yellowback issue). Small water spot on front cover, spine panel and upper edges show some age-darkening, mild foxing to endpapers, a very good or better copy. (#167313)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.