A Century of Creepy Stories Agatha Christie and orange endpapers

and orange endpapers

Among the historical figures fictionalised in the novel are Chaim Weizmann

a little foxing and the odd thumb mark and faded stain or chip throughout

The text and illustrations combine very effectively to make this among the most attractive books of the period

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A Century of Creepy Stories Agatha Christie and orange endpapersA Century of Creepy Stories. London: Hutchinson & Co., [Undated, but 1934]. First edition, first printing of this omnibus volume that contains seventy stories by forty one famous writers, including master blood curdlers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, and Algernon Blackwood. Hardcover; xi, 1178 pp. Publisher's original turquoise cloth, decorated and lettered in black to upper cover and spine, plain endpapers; with the original,