xii, 398pp. Dark blue cloth-covered boards; embossed decoration on front, gilt titles on spine. 16mo. Spine ends very lightly rubbed. Corners rubbed and rounded. Text block edges lightly tanned, top edge slightly dusty. Partially removed book plate on front pastedown endpaper, tape residue on front and rear pastedown, tanning on free endpapers. Lender's stamp on copyright page. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine has some light reading creases and soiling, wear to ends; covers lightly soiled with some wear along edges and chipping around corners, tape adhered to both flaps; interior lightly tanned and soiled. Stories by Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Twain, Bierce, James, Wharton, Anderson, Faulkner and Hemingway.
