THE KING IN YELLOW - Robert Chambers, TRUE 1st/1st 1895 - SUPERNATURAL HORROR

THE KING IN YELLOWBook Details + Condition: F. Tennyson Neely Publisher (Chicago and New York). True First Edition / First Printing, 1895. Small octavo hardcover. Original pictorial green cloth, with front and spine panels stamped in brown; top edge gilt; edges untrimmed. Pagination: pp. [1-2] [1-9] 10-316 [317: advertisement] [318: blank]. Of the three printings with title pages dated 1895, this copy is accepted as the first. First edition/printing points include: no inserted frontispiece; page 318 is blank; lizard design is on the front cover; and sheets bulk 1.5 cm. This is Robert William Chambers' second book and first collection of short stories. It remains "[o]ne of the most important works of supernatural horror between Edgar Allan Poe and modern horror fiction" [Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror]. The work has been called "undoubtedly the best work that Chambers did. A landmark book in abandoning the ghosts of Victorian literary tradition and concentrating on the