Dead Man's Chest. Classic Tales of Hidden Treasure. Collected and Arranged, with an Introduction.

Publication details: Oxford: Basil Blackwell,1929,

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Scarce in the dustjacket.In the same format and same vein as the Editor's 'Before Scotland Yard' and 'Rumours and Hoaxes', also with Blackwell, the selection runs from 'The History of Ali Baba' and a traditional Persian tale, through classical and renaissance examples the stories from the nineteenth-century have an American emphasis, with Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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FIRST EDITION, some light spotting to prelims receding into text and recurrent at rear, pp. xxiii, 292, crown 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in red to backstrip and upper board, corners gently knocked and a trifle rubbed at extremities, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, tail edge roughtrimmed, ownership inscription in pencil to flyleaf, pictorial dustjacket with backstrip panel a little browned, a little chipped at extremities with some splitting at either end of upper joint-fold, very good

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