Oliver Onions - Widdershins, Martin Secker, 1911, 1st Edition

Oliver Onions - Widdershins, Martin Secker, 1911, 1st Edition

An orange-red hardback book in fine condition.  A collection of nine stories. "A landmark book in the history of supernatural fiction".  The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, includes "The Beckoning Fair One," one of the finest of all ghost stories, and Onion's work is stylishly suspenseful, and his best works are very effective.  A photo of Oliver Onions to Title page. 

Condition:   A label stuck to inside board, Timothy Kenrick and pencil notations to endpaper.  Darkened boards and faded spine.  A coloured red top edge and foxing to fore and tail edge which are untrimmed.  There is foxing to a few leaves, and page 33 has 4 lines underlined.   A good copy.

Weight    456g.   Pages   315.