FEARFUL PLEASURES

First Edition: 301 pages, woodcut printer's device on the title page, original black cloth titled gilt and decorated gilt on the spine, light staining on the endpapers from moisture in the boards at the time of printing, a very good copy in the dust jacket which is torn at the top of the spine and worn along the edges, designed Ronald Clyne, with the price $3.00 at the top of the front flap.

The colophon on the final unnumbered page reads, 'four thousand copies of this book have been printed from Intertype Garamond by the Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin. This book is printed on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex.'

The bibliography records 4033 copies as the total edition the extra copies being explained as printer's overruns.

Wikipedia, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearful_Pleasures), 'Fearful Pleasures is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by author A. E. Coppard. It was released in 1946 and was the first collection of the author's stories to be published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 4,033 copies. The New York Times reviewer Helen B. Parker praised Coppard's "great propensity for capturing with lucidity the folk speech of the British Isles", concluding that the collection contained "more than enough poetry of language. His is the rare, musical style that almost demands reading aloud"'.