COWLES, Frederick (1900-1949). The Night Wind Howls. London: Frederick Muller, 1938.

COWLES, Frederick (1900-1949). The Night Wind Howls. London: Frederick Muller, 1938. 8vo. 315 pp. Publisher's green cloth lettered black to spine with original unclipped ("7s/6d") dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND COLLECTION, SCARCE IN JACKET.

This volume, of "original ghost stories and tales of sorcery, voodoo, witchcraft, and horror," represents Cowles' longstanding anthropological interests in Haitian and Gypsy cultures through its varied settings in "Haiti, Spain and Bavaria, the moors of Scotland and old Vienna, the Cornish coast and medieval Bruges." The collection was preceded by one previous, The Horror of Abott's Grange.

Condition

Jacket toned, soiled, darkened, substantial marginal discoloration to flaps, minor edge wear and fine repairs to reverse. Boards rubbed, soiled at bottom of spine block. Binding slightly skewed. Front free endpaper removed, hinge starting. Despite this an excellent copy, in much better shape than usually seen, scarce in original dust jacket.