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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Danilo Ducak; (illustrator). First Edition. Trade paperback format. Light edgewear with some creasing on the lower right of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Danilo. This anthology contains: Introduction: The Truth of the Mummy's Curse by John Richard Stephens; The Malevolence of Ancient Egyptian Spirits by Arthur Weigall; Lost in a Pyramid, or The Mummy's Curse by Louisa May Alcott; Raiding Mummies' Tombs - by various Egyptologists; The Vengeance of Nitocris by Tennessee Williams; Under the Pyramids - a novelette by H. P. Lovecraft, written for Harry Houdini; Opening King Tutankhamen's Tomb by Howard Carter with A. C. Mace; The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb by Agatha Christie; The Demon Possessed Princess - by an ancient Egyptian priest; The Majestic Sphinx by Mark Twain; Smith and the Pharaohs - a novella by H. Rider Haggard; Some Words with a Mummy by Edgar Allan Poe; Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Homemade Truly Egyptian Mummy by Ray Bradbury; Dead Kings - an excerpt by Rudyard Kipling; Lot No. 249 - a novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Locked Tomb Mystery by Elizabeth Peters; The Death Ring of Sneferu by Sax Rohmer; The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned - an excerpt by Anne Rice; and The Jewel of the Seven Stars - a novella by Bram Stoker. Size: 8vo. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 552 pp. Review blurb laid in. Includes18 short stories. Bright, near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to., 368pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence, of this anthology with stories by such a wide diversity of authors from Bram Stoker and Ray Bradbury to Sting and Woody Allen. Bound in red cloth with lettering and decoration stamped in black on the spine and front board. Illustration inset on front board. Illustrated within by Vince Locke. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear or toning. Laid in is a signed, hand-written letter, signed by an Editor of Barnes and Noble, (assuming a relationship with the publisher Metro Books), to Otto Penzler, legendary editor and publisher, founder of the Mysterious Press and proprietor of the famed Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. The purpose of which is to solicit his opinion about the new published anthology. A gorgeous collectable copy of a very nicely produced title and a nice association.