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2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, expertly recased, backstrips faded (but all gilt wholly legible), else a good, clean set. First appearance of twelve short stories of 'the grotesque and the terrible', comprising: The Story of the Beetle Hunter; The Story of the Man with the Watches; The Story of the Lost Special; The Story of the Sealed Room; The Story of the Black Doctor; The Story of the Club-Footed Grocer; The Story of the Brazilian Cat; The Story of the Japanned Box; The Story of the Jew's Breast-Plate; The Story of B.24; The Story of the Latin Tutor; The Story of the Brown Hand. The tales were collected and published (together with five later stories) as Round the Fire Stories in 1908. VERY SCARCE. Green & Gibson, p.151-152.