JAMES, HENRY
The Turn of the Screw
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Heritage Press, 1977. Hardcover. It has been said about Henry James's shorter novel, "For sheer terror."The Turn of the Screw" is the apotheosis of the macabre in literature." It is offered in a deluxe Heritage Press reprint edition with illustrations by Mariette Lydis, and an introduction by Carl Van Doren. --- In dark red cloth-covered boards variant with curving screw-like imagery and titling in silver to cover, spine titling also in silver. Sandglass leaflet laid in (Norwalk, no number). Volume housed in pale grey paper-covered slipcase. --- With a hint of sunning to spine, else a clean, bright, tightly-bound copy lacking obvious damages. Slipcase with a ding to one corner; is otherwise undamaged and structurally sound.; Small Quarto (9 to 11 in. tall) ; xiii, 145 pages. Near Fine .
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