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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Undated (circa 1930). 226pp, 4 colour plates inc. frontispiece, numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Red cloth-covered boards, bling embossed design and titles to front, gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Lightly rounded spine ends, corners lightly rubbed and rounded, slight bump to top edge of front board. Text block edges lightly tanned and foxed. End papers lightly tanned. Internally neat clean bright and tight. Dust jacket has sun-faded spine, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. Forty-two short stories for children. Includes: The Stranger in the Bungalow, Birds in the Garden and The Horse that Knew it was Friday.

Four volumes, all published. Large octavo format. Comprising: Vol 1, Frontispiece portrait of Stead, 8 pages of Preface & Index, then 588 pages, lacking pages O8 and P1 (the Contents) between issues No. 2 and No. 3. Vol 2: 4 pages of Index & title, the Frontispiece portrait of Stevenson (page B1) mis-bound prior to the main title rather than at the commencement of No. 7, then 384 pages, lacking page H1 (the Contents of No. 8). Vol 3: 4 pages of titles and Index, then 500 pages. Vol 4: 4 pages of titles and Index, then 458 pages. From the library of notable parapsychologist and paranormal investigator, Alan Gauld (1932-2024), with his small bookplate to the front pastedowns and an ink ownership inscription to the front endpapers of each volume, also occasional pencil highlighting and a few notes regarding the text. The books are robustly bound in modern blue buckram, lettered in gilt to the spines, with some light marks and minor bumps to the cloth. The text blocks are very musty, smelling appropriately as though they have been disinterred from a tomb, they are toned to varying degrees depending upon the paper quality, also slightly marked and foxed, with occasional small notes to the text, minor damage to some page edges and a few dog-eared corners. An ambitiously comprehensive overview of all matters pertaining to the occult or supernatural at the end of the Victorian period, including regular features on spirit or psychic photography, theosophy, astrology, palmistry, psychic healing, mediums, séances, the interpretation of dreams, automatic writing, modern witchcraft, haunted houses, true ghost stories, regular communications from the late Julia Ames channelled through Stead, and psychical research, also one or two articles on faeries, doubles, aliens, killing by willing and vampirism, reviews of both serious books on occult matters and some weird fiction. The magazine ran for 18 issues, between July 1893 and October 1897. Sets of the bound volumes are uncommon in commerce.