Night on the River: a Queer story; Together with Two Stories of Childhood & The Cloud: a Love Episode
Cambridge, Eng. W. Heffer & Sons, 1923. Hardcover. [8], 85, [1] p.; 20 cm. Grey-brown paper over boards with red printed labels on spine and front cover. Contents: Night on the River -- Another Secret Treaty -- Behind the Soot-Curtain -- The Cloud. The author, Dermot Freyer, rejected James Joyce's Dubliners when Joyce submitted it to Elkin Mathews for publication (14 other publishers also rejected Dubliners before it was finally published in 1914). Freyer was the author of several published collections of poems and short stories. The title story of this volume is a supernatural story about a party at night on an English river. "Behind the Soot-Curtain" is about the magical worldview of children. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy vol. 2:48. Reginald, 05654. Not in Bleiler. In Very Good Condition: spine is sunned; joints are rubbed; spine label is rubbed and stained; pages are clean and tight. Very Good. Item #002248
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