Published by London: Elkin, Mathews and Marro, 1929
Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 12mo, pictorial boards and endpapers. With the dust jacket. Mild spotting to edges, endpapers lightly browned. A near fine copy with only minor bumping at corners, lightly toned endpapers -- in good+ dust jacket with several open tears at extremities. Signed limited edition. This copy number 360 of 530 numbered copies signed by Graves.
Published by Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, 1929
Seller: MintFirsts Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, Macclesfield, CHESH, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited first edition. Limited first edition. Thin 8vo. Pp. 31, [1]. Grey patterned boards printed in mauve, repeat design to dustjacket and endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Set in monotype Pica Bodoni, and printed on sewn laid paper by Robert MacLehose & Co. Ltd., at the University Press, Glasgow. No. 16 of the Woburn Books series. Copy no. 507 out of a total edition of 530, and one of the 30 set aside for presentation. Signed in black ink on the limitation page by the author. Partial off-setting to free endpapers, else fine with a hint of tanning to dustwrapper spine; minute wear to edges. A chilling horror tale told by a man on the sidelines of a game in progress at an insane asylum cricket-ground. Basis for the big screen adaptation by Michael Austin, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, with Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Tim Curry, et al. Winner of the 1978 Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, tied with Bye Bye Monkey. "Classic short story." -Laird Barron. [Barron (ed.), Horror Literature 3-73; Higginson & Williams A31]. signed.
Published by Elkin Mathews & Marrot,, 1929
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Signed
Sm. 4to., on laid paper, with decorative endpapers; printed boards, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip. EDITION LIMITED TO 530 NUMBERED COPIES (500 FOR SALE) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 270). Woburn Books, No.16. Higginson, A31.