[DERLETH, August (1909-1971), editor]. The Night Side. Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1947].

[DERLETH, August (1909-1971), editor]. The Night Side. Masterpieces of the Strange and Terrible. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1947]. 8vo. Illustrated by Lee Brown Coye. 372 pp. Publisher's full black cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt, publisher's price-clipped dust jacket (virtually all copies of this title have price-clipped jackets). FIRST EDITION OF THIS HORROR SHORT STORY COLLECTION IN THE UNCOMMON JACKET. Some contributors include: H. P. Lovecraft, MacKinlay Kantor, Lord Dunsany, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Machen, and others.

Condition

Minor rubbing to cloth, light offsetting to endleaves; jacket spine toned and lightly edgeworn, some rubbing, soiling, toning to jacket panels, faint pencil marking on front jacket flap. Very good.