The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers
Early reprint of one of the most important works of supernatural horror between Edgar Allan Poe and modern horror fiction (Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, p. 739). Dated 1895 on the copyright page, but no date to title page. In the same binding as what is generally considered the third printing.
New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895. Publisher's original black cloth, lettered in silver, decorated in yellow and red, top edge gilt; pp. frontispiece, (xi), 10-316. A fair, ex-library copy with typical pockets and markings to rear endpaper and pastedown, library initials and number to front pastedown. Binding cracked at hinges, neatly reinforced with archival adhesive. General shelfwear and rubbing to boards, pinhole losses to cloth along joints, spine sunned and faded.