Harper's Monthly Magazine vol. 105 June-Nov. 1902 [first appearance of The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs]

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1902. Hardcover. 980 pages, 24 leaves of plates (some in color): in-text and full-ages illustrations, maps, music; 24 cm. Leather spine and corners with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-stamped title "Harper's Magazine" in second compartment. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled red. Marbled endpapers. Small bookbinder's label on front fixed endpaper: Morgan & Stanley Co., Camden, NJ. Contents include: Eyes that Saw Not by Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton) a Canadian author of Chinese-British ancestry, and her husband Bertrand W. Babcock; Ex Libris by Mary Tracy Earle; A Philanthropist by Josephine Dodge Daskam; The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith with illustrations by Edwin A. Abbey; Radio-Activity by Robert Kennedy Duncan; The Economy of Jane Stebbins by E. Ayrton (Edith Chaplin Ayrton Zangwill); and first appearances, including that of the classic horror story The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs; of works by Edith Wharton -- the short stories The Quicksand, and The Reckoning, and the poem The Bread of Angels; of chapters 3-14 of Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward (Mary Augusta Ward); of The Headsman by Agnes Repplier; and of The Price of the Past Participle by Margaret Cameron. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; 34 pages have a crease and 2 closed tears of 1 cm. and less along the fore-edges; shadow on pages 516 and 553; loss from fore-edge of p. 695-6; otherwise, clean and solid. Very Good. Item #011923

Price: $45.00