Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales by Whitehead, Henry S - 1944

St Helier, Jersey: Neville Spearman (Jersey) Limited, 1974. First UK edition hardcover with clipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is scuffed, and edges are creased and nicked, including a small tear to the front cover at the lower edge, spine side. Spine ends are a little bumped, and page block is lightly blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear throughout. LW. First Edition UK. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Used.

Tight, square spine. Gilt to spine remains bright. Former owner name to the front flyleaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. A small area of very light soiling to the fore-edge, but no other notable wear to the book. Price-clipped jacket has areas of rubbing and edge-wear. 394 pp. Fiction.

1/1/1944. Hardcover w/DJ. Arkham House, 1944. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; spine tanned; damp stains on bottom half of spine; black cloth; head of spine bent; front hinge weak; text clean. G/G

[Sauk City, Wis.] : Arkham house, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor copy, wear and tear as with age. Boards damaged. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; xii, 394 p., 1 . 20 cm. Subject; Short stories, English.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. One of only 1,559 copies printed. The sixth book published by Arkham House: "Exceptional stories of Caribbean magic, mostly from Weird Tales, by Lovecraft's friend who was the Anglican archbishop to the Virgin Islands. "These stories stand up as solidly today as when they were first written" (Jack Chalker and Mark Owings: The Science-Fantasy Publishers). Small octavo. Original cloth binding, with gilt titles. Mild toning along the spine of the dust jacket; else very good or better.

Arkham House, 1944. first edition. hardcover. Very good/good +. Octavo, dark navy cloth covers, xii [1-2] 3-394 pages plus colophon. One cover corner lightly bumped. Unclipped dust jacket spine browned, tape on inside at head and foot of spine. Introduction by B. H. Barlow. Fourteen weird tales. 042407C

ArKHAM, 1944. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION IN DJ..

A FINE FIRST IN DUST JACKET

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1944. First edition. Some foxing to end papers and last several leaves, a nearly fine copy in a very good to nearly fine dust jacket with mild wear to corner tips and head of spine panel, with the usual color fade to spine panel. (23622). Octavo, jacket illustration by Charles Frank Wakefield, cloth. 1559 copies printed. The sixth Arkham House book. Whitehead's posthumously published first collection of weird fiction, fourteen stories including eleven of the twenty-five stories he published in WEIRD TALES between 1924 and 1933. All but one of the stories collected here "are set in the West Indies and are redolent with local color ... Whitehead was a cut above the general run of pulp writers, and his stories feature some remarkable motifs, occasionally let down by inept plotting." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-165. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-213. Bleiler: The Guide To Supernatural Fiction #1706.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1944. black (Holliston Black Novelex) boards with gilt ltrs on spine, 394 yellowing pages on White Winnebago Eggshell paper, corners/edges/and head-heel of spine are bumped & beginning to fray, tight. Black and maroon pictorial DJ nicked and chipped on corners & edges with $3.00 price on upper corner of front flap.. Horror / supernatural... 1st Printiing Thus. Hardcover. Good+/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.