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Herbert Russell Wakefield. The Clock Strikes Twelve. Arkham House, 1946.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Arkham House January 1946 Binding: Hardcover
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Herbert Russell Wakefield. The Clock Strikes Twelve. Arkham House, 1946.
Price: US$68.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Dust jacket shows minor wear, rubbing, and tanning. Light foxing on the edges, pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Wakefield, H. R.. THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE. Arkham House., Sauk City:, 1946.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Expaned edition of 1940 Herbert Jenkins publication. 4040 copies printed. Previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown. Light foxing to the edge of the pageblock and endpages, which extends to the outside edges of the first and last several pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Seller: Kathmandu Books, Winter Park, FL, U.S.A.
WAKEFIELD, H.R.. The Clock Strikes Twelve. , 1946.
Price: US$228.32 + shipping
Description: Arkham House, 1946. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine gilt, with printed dust wrapper; pp. xii, 248; a very good copy, dust jacket unclipped with a touch of uniform fading. First US edition. A collection of ghost stories by Herbert Russell Wakefield, a prolific author of haunted tales frequently compared to M.R James in tone and subject. Wakefield's work appeared in popular periodicals and found favour with August Derleth of Arkham House. Though a shorter version of this book appeared in London in 1940, by 1946, Derleth had published The Clock Strikes Twelve in a larger more complete US edition. The forward to the text, titled "Why I Write Ghost Stories" gives some insight into why Wakefield chose to write ghost stories (it has something to do with a haunted spoon) and is all the more interesting considering he burned his correspondence files, manuscripts and all photographs of himself shortly before his death.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom