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Click to view full description | 1. | Kaye, Marvin, selected by. Cover art by Edward Gorey. (Edith Wharton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ogden Nash, H.P. Lovecraft, Edward D. Hoch, Henry James, Donald A. Wollheim, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Matheson, Robert E. Howard, L. Frank Baum, et al.) HAUNTED AMERICA: STAR-SPANGLED SUPERNATURAL STORIES.
Guild America, Garden City, New York, (1990), book club edition.
582 pp, 8vo (8 1/2'' H), hard cover in dust jacket. A collection of 47 ''blood-red, bone-white, and cold-blue stories...The all-star authors include Isaac Asimov, L. Frank Baum, Willa Cather, Helen Eustis, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, Washington Irving, Richard Matheson, Ogden Nash, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. These classic and contemporary tales are drawn from five broad regions of the United States: New England, the East, the South, the West, and the Midwest. There's also 'The Midnight Tourist's Guide to Haunted America', a specially compiled directory to haunted sites in each of the fifty states.'' Small store label on front free endpaper, minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, tiny dint on fore-edge of textblock. VG/VG
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 | 2. | Morrison, Helen Barber, ed. (Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Byron, Charles Burney, Thomas Carlyle, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Heinrich Heine, Henry James, James Russell Lowell, Macaulay, et al.) THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL: LITERARY IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAND TOUR.
Andrew Melrose, London, 1953, first edition.
271 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Maps. "....the warmly personal views and comments of a host of famous figures as they journeyed up and down England, Scotland, Italy, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Bohemia in the 18th and 19th centuries taking the then fashionable Grand Tour. Here the foremost artists, statesmen and scholars of their day mark, in charming 'off-the-record' moments their pleasures, joys, furies and irritations. Shelley writes about Lake Geneva; Thackeray tells why he was refused a good room in a hotel; William James airs his views on Berlin; Chopin speaks about Edinburgh; Mozart comments on Paris; and Dickens tells a hair-raising story about an ascent of Vesuvius....And, for additional company, there is Voltaire, Beethoven, Henry James, Carlyle, Madame de Stael, R.L. Stevenson, Emerson, Dumas, Robert Burns and many more. This masterly selection has humour in abundance, originality and insight and learning - in short, all the qualities that make good travel-writing durable however much travel may change." Small business label on front pastedown, very light browning and a few light foxing marks on endpapers, tiny foxing marks on fore-edge of textblock, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear, moderate edge wrinkling, a few tiny/small chips, small hole on rear hinge - near bottom, light browning, light soiling/rubbing, a few faint foxing marks. Very Good/Good
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