MOLESWORTH, Mrs. (pseudonym of MOLESWORTH, Mary Louisa, 1839-1921). Uncanny Tales. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1896]. 8vo. 228 pp. Publisher's illustrated blue cloth stamped silver, blue, and brown, and lettered in gilt. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF MRS. MOLESWORTH'S SCARCE SECOND COLLECTION OF SUPERNATURAL FICTION.

"Mrs. Molesworth" was predominantly an author of children's literature, her interests reflected here, in her second and best-known supernatural collection, through her frequent use of child narrators, as in her most famous ghost story, "The Shadow in the Moonlight." The volume is preceded by a first collection, titled Four Ghost Stories.

Boards rubbed, edge worn, extremities bumped, lightly soiled. Front flyleaf removed, endpapers toned, light spotting, gutters starting, ownership inscription to rear pastedown. Very good, scarce in this condition.