[MANUSCRIPT / GALLEYS]. BOWEN, Marjorie (1885-1952). Typescripts, Galleys, Other Materials for "Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales". [V.p., and Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, ca. 1930s, 1976]. Original typescripts of the following stories that appear in this collection (ca. 1930s): The Hidden Ape (25 pp. with corrections), Scoured Silk (34 pp. with corrections), The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes (29 pp.), The House by the Poppy Field (14 pp. - carbon copy), Florence Flannery An Ornament in Regency Paste (26 pp. on blue paper), One Remained Behind... (23 pp. first two pages loose, with corrections), and with typescript of the collected version (ca. 1976, 212 pp. with notes by Roderick Meng), two set-up blocks with mounted text, each 207 pp., two long galleys (one with notes, each 76 pp.), two photocopied Revised Proof copies (one with corrections, both approximately 103 pp.). And with a first edition of this title (Arkham House, 1976) in jacket (light foxing, else fine).  Also with several newspaper appearances of her articles or stories, all ca. 1920s-1930s.

Bowen (pseudonym of Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long (née Campbell)) wrote horror, romances and biographies. After a difficult childhood, she wrote her first novel, The Viper of Milan, in 1906; it became a best-seller. A prolific writer, she wrote over 150 books, many under the Bowen pseudonym (and other pseudonyms). Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales was her first collection of stories published in the United States. Kecksies collects 12 stories, including the six stories with typescripts included in this lot.

The usual wear, creasing, soiling that one would expect from working production materials. Fine.