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[LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN.] Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery. Engraved frontispiece and 3 plates by "Phiz" [Hablot K. Browne]. Half-title and title printed in blue and red. Small 8vo, full green calf by Bumpus, covers gilt-ruled, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, turn-ins and top edges gilt; plates clean, Sir David Salomons Bart armorial bookplate to front pastedown, facing bookplate of Robert E. Neuse Jr., with a design by Thomas Hart Benton; preserved in a custom 1/4 morocco felt-lined drop-back case (LMS bookplate laid-in). Dublin: James McGlashan, 1851
first edition with the first issue covers (Carter's A binding) bound in at end. The author's anonymously published third book and first book of ghost stories. Rare. Sadleir 1376; Wolff 4013; Carter, Binding Variants, p. 127.
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