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DESCRIPTION: Orange copper cloth with black title band to upper front cloth and black titles to spine. Very minor residue from sticker to/ ffep. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Small missing section to upper spine end. Sunned and spotted spine. Tightly bound with lightly age toned intact endpapers with strong hinges. Outline of prev sticker to ffep. 'D.S. Libraries' stamp to page 9. Light spotting to prelims. toned pages with light spotting and fox marks to pages margins from soiled and spotted text block edge DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 320. Size: 16mo 19cm by 12.5cm.

First American edition. A little darkening to the hinges else fine in very good plus dustwrapper rubbed on the front panel, with a very faint stain on the spine and a couple of tiny nicks at the crown. A sequel to *Quinney*, featuring the eponymous art dealer and adventurer. Elements of both mystery and the supernatural. In *Bleiler* and *Hubin*.

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8] 9-320, original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in yellow. First edition. Mixed collection of short fiction including some supernaturalism and crime. In "Possessed," a haunted antique chair reveals the source of its power in the remains of an old Spaniard. Curious and magical objects are encountered in other stories, as well. Part of a series of books collecting stories about Joe Quinney, a crafty English dealer in art and antiques with "the wisdom of the serpent and the unwavering determination to come out on top." Sequel to QUINNEYS' (1914), a very popular book upon which a four-act play was based. Bleiler (1978), p. 197. Hubin (1994), p. 816. Touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, top edge a bit dusty, some mild scattered foxing, mostly to page edges, a very good copy. A scarce edition of this book. (#130573)