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Gerald Bullett. The Street of the Eye. John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, 1923.
Price: US$123.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1923. First Edition. 307 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Illustrated plate adhered to front free endpaper. Rough-cut pages. Light thumb marking, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters, slightly exposing netting. Binding remains firm with all pages attached. Minor creasing to hinges. Faint pencil marks to front endpaper and rear pastedown. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has visible tanning with soft splitting and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a very slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publishers black cloth binding, cover ruled in blind, spine titles in gilt. Spine panel little sunned, VERY GOOD copy.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 307 pp. Faint offsetting to half title page, else very good plus in full black cloth with gold stamping to spine. Lacks dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-307 [308: blank], original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained yellow, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Bullett's first collection of short fiction includes two supernatural horror stories, "The Street of the Eye" and "Dearth's Farm," the latter being his most reprinted tale, as well as "The Enchanted Moment," the germ for MR. GODLY BESIDE HIMSELF (1924). Bleiler (1983) observes that Bullett was "highly regarded during the 1930s, but [is] now undeservedly forgotten," and states that "Dearth's Farm" is excellent. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-40. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 298. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 62-3. Bleiler (1978), p. 34. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Owner's penciled signature dated November 1923 on the front free endpaper. A very good copy. (#170507)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.