The Tyranny of the Dark by Hamlin Garland
£100.00
First edition, first printing published by Harper and Brothers, London and New York, 1903.
Fine copy. 439pp, + 8 black and white plates. Publisher's superb pictorial blue cloth depicting a black bat with two hands bound at the wrists. Gilt blocked titles to the upper board and spine. The lightest rubbing to the corners and spine tips. The endpapers are toned, the rear pastedown has a beautiful bookseller label, Paul Elder of San Francisco. A crisp, unread copy without inscriptions.
* Occult novel, featuring ghosts, seances, spiritualism and possession.
The illustrated plates are wonderfully atmospheric.
