LORD DUNSANY ~ THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR. JOSEPH JORKENS, True 1st/1st 1931 HORROR

  LORD DUNSANY ~ The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens ~ True First Edition / First Printing, 1931 ~ FANTASY HORROR SUPERNATURAL

 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York / London (1931)

First edition from 1931. In overall very good condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for one bumped corner and light general shelf-wear. The pages are crisp and clean, and free of interior markings. THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR. JOSEPH JORKENS is a collection of fantasy short stories. "The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentleman's or adventurer's club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished." -Wikipedia