Tales. Selected and edited by Carl Van Doren.
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928. Pott 8vo. First impression in this series. Original maroon cloth with lettering to spine and a candle burning over an open book in gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Spine a little faded. Slight rubbing to spine ends and corner tips. Residual marks from old tape on the endpapers. Very good +. Item #5455
#319 in The World's Classics. A variant binding apparently issued in the 1920s for volumes of short stories. Thirty tales selected from Twice-Told Tales; Mosses from an Old Manse and The Snow Image.
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