MIDDLETON, RICHARD. The Ghost Ship and Other Stories. Preface by Arthur Machen. 8vo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth within blind-stamp rules, top-edges slightly dust soiled; dust jacket, front flap missing outer 1/2 and mostly split along fold, rear flap neatly detached along fold, spine panel browned, unclipped; small stains to endpaper corners, ex-collection Vincent Starrett with his tipped-in bookplate on front pastedown and inscribed by him on front flyleaf. first edition in the rare dust jacket. Posthumous publication issued the year after Middleton's death. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912