The Shadows Around Us - Authentic Tales of the Supernatural compiled by Arthur Morrison. Hay Nisbet & Co. 1891. 4 5/8" x 7 1/4" 128 pages Hardcover with no dust jacket. Former library book In library binding. Original cover pasted on front cover with advertisements inside front and back covers. Library label on the spine. Library rubber stamp on the top of the page block. On the first blank page is a bad tear that is a result of the removal of library envelope. On the title page is a small notation of library classification. Find the interior pages. I found a black spot and a tear that was repaired with clear plastic tape which is not faded or turned brown. There may be other problems, I have missed, but I don't think so. No other tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978.  sIH28b

"The incidents set forth in the ensuing pages are as completely testified to as written facts well may be-that is to say, infinitely more care has been taken to verify and substantiate them than is taken to authenticate the matter-of-fact news published in a daily newspaper and accepted by everybody without question. For several of the cases the compiler is indebted to the investigations of the Society for Psychical Research." - from the preface