The Clock Strikes Twelve
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First printing, one of 4,000. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 248 pages.
A collection of 18 ghost stories by a British master of the genre. Wakefield's work in this vein has been favorably compared to that of M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Henry James.
Black cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine titles and ornaments. Minor extremity bumps, a bit of browning to endpapers. Attractive prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Jacket is price-clipped, with minor extremity rubs, shallow chips, and toning. Very good in a very good jacket.
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