Item #4917 QUESTIONABLE SHAPES. Howells, illiam, ean.

QUESTIONABLE SHAPES.

Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. 4 pp undated ads. Original red cloth.

First Edition of this collection of three tales involving spirits or ghosts -- "describing the entry of a very etiolated supernatural into the lives of the leisured, moneyed class of the turn of the century" [Bleiler]. They are "His Apparition," "The Angel of the Lord" and "Though One Rose from the Dead." This copy has a Christmas 1904 inscription on the front endpaper, but is in fine, bright condition. Blanck 9752; Bleiler Supernatural Fiction 865. Item #4917

Price: $115.00

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