Original dark red cloth, decoratively blocked in black; cream endpapers. Cloth a little darkened and lightly marked, signature (1947) on front free endpaper, good. A collection of 13 stories (The Wandering Mason, The Golden Ram, A Night of Tortures etc) and essays (Milton's Golden Lane, Edgar Allen Poe, etc), a number of which had originally appeared in Dickens's journal Household Words.