Ex Private Pseud (3 results)

hardcover, Condition: Good, Arno Press, NY, 1976, (reprint of 1931 edition), 8vo., purple cloth, 285pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, VG- $.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-Private X, pseud. [Alfred McLelland Burrage]. Someone in the Room. NY: Arno Press, 1976, 1st. edition, 1st. printing this publisher, 285 pp., publisher's catalog (iii). *** Originally published in 1931, this volume includes a facsimile of title page from that edition. A collection of fourteen (14) tales of horror and terror by one of the masters of the genre. Included are - The Sweeper; The Waxwork; The Running Tide; The Cottage in the Wood; Smee; Someone in the Room; etc. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Purple cloth boards and spine with silver lettering on front cover and on spine. Fine condition. *** 8.75 inches tall by 5.75 inches.

FIRST EDITION, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, lean to spine, a couple of patches of discolouration to cloth, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket chipped at extremities, backstrip panel a little browned, good. A 'sincere attempt', sometimes a sardonic one, to record his experiences as a soldier in France; Burrage was an established author, but professes to have here given his 'literary style [.] a half-holiday' in the pursuit of truth - this also the basis for the pseudonym (which was nevertheless retained for a collection of ghost stories the following year following the success of this work).