Seven Gothic Tales. Frontispiece by Rex Whistler. London: Putman, 1934. First UK Edition. Pp 522. Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. With drawing by Rex Whistler. Jacket chipped along edges, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Karen Blixen’s first book, published first in the United States under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen.

By the Author of ‘Out Of Africa’ these intricate and imaginative tales, all set in the nineteenth century, won wide acclaim in America and soon appeared in this edition in Britain