Presenting Moonshine
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [vi], 327 pages.
A collection of short stories by John Collier, a master of the weird tale. Here are two dozen "astonishing and memorable accounts of the ways in which the normal individual may run afoul of the bizarre, the occult, and the openly fiendish."
John Collier was an English writer who spent much time in Hollywood writing for film and television. His stories are broadly fantasies but are really of their own kind. Some of them were written for or adapted as episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone.
Collier's stories are so well crafted that he is considered by many to be "a writer's writer," particularly admired by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, Anthony Burgess, and Michael Chabon.
Ref. CURREY p. 121.
Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in silver. Clean interior, slight bumps to spine ends, fore corners remain sharp. Dust jacket has some edge chips, rubbing along fore edge folds, light soil to rear panel, and a few closed edge tears. Overall Near fine in a good to very good dust jacket.
Item #1829
Price: $125