TALES FROM UNDERWOOD David H. Keller Arkham House First

TALES FROM UNDERWOOD David H. Keller Arkham House First - eBay (item 310106091166 end time Dec-08-08 17:59:49 PST)

This vintage first edition hard cover book with dust jacket is Tales From Underwood A Collection of the Best Fantastic Stories by David H. Keller, published in 1952 for Arkham House by Pellegrini & Cudahy. This isn't one of those little black volumes bound in Holliston Black Novelex as we're used to seeing from Arkham House.

Contents include 23 stories:

• The Worm
• The Revolt of the Pedestrians
• The Yeast Men
• The Ivy War
• The Doorbell


• The Flying Fool
• The Psychophonic Nurse
• A Biological Experiment
• Free as the Air
• The Bridle


• Tiger Cat
• The God Wheel
• The Golden Bough
• The Jelly Fish
• The Opium Eater


• The Thing in the Cellar
• The Moon Artist
• Creation Unforgivable
• The Dead Woman
• The Door


• The Perfumed Garden
• The Literary Corkscrew
• A Piece of Linoleum

From the dust jacket:

Here are twenty-three of the best fantastic short stories of Dr. David H. Keller. The novel ideas of the writer of science fiction contain a strong note of criticism as well as of prophecy; the stories of the psychiatrist indicate a deep and penetrating knowledge of the secret recesses of the human mind.

Tales From Underwood is a cornerstone collection, representing both the best of Dr. Keller's shorter work, and an adequate cross-section of that work. Dr. Keller spent many years in the U.S. Army as a psychiatrist.

The interior pages are in wonderful condition. The cloth cover is in very nice condition except that a small piece was scraped off the top corner. The jacket is very good with a couple weak areas reinforced inside with the same kind of cover stock, and the same scraped corner replaced. There is age discoloration on the end papers.

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