Who Wants A Green Bottle? And Other Uneasy Tales Robbins, Tod (Clarence Aaron Robbins) Horror,Supernatural

Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-280, publisher's decorated brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition, variant brown cloth binding. The author's best short story collection, eight macabre tales including the title fiction, "Silent, White and Beautiful," and "Spurs," the latter the basis for the legendary "unwatchable" movie, "Freaks" (1932). "Excellent commercial fiction, with good little touches." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1398. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-166. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 183. Bleiler (1978), p. 167. Reginald 12258. Small owner's signature on the front free endpaper. A touch of rubbing to cloth, mainly along outer joints, a bit of foxing to page edges, a sound, clean, very good copy. (#173769)