Title: The Supernatural Omnibus
Publisher: GOLLANCZ
Publication Date: 1931
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Edition: 1st Edition
First edition. 622 printed pages. Pages mildly & evenly toned. 13.5 x 19 cm. Original black cloth in very good condition. Top corners slightly bumped. Complete with original first state dust-jacket, evenly toned, top and bottom of the spine torn, upper panel with closed tear and small corner tear. Presentation enhanced with complete, new, facsimile dust jacket underneath the original damaged one. Augustus Montague Summers (1880-1948) was an English author and self-styled clergyman, known for his idiosyncratic studies on witchcraft, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe & responsible for the first English translation, published in 1928, of the 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum. Including stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, Percival Landon, Frederick Marrayat and Vernon Lee. Marshall Tymn 2-94. Rare in the dust-jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 5051