Faded stains on rear board

A brown pictorial cloth gilt hardback book

Inscribed to Richard Dalby by Peter Bell

Logan Pearsall Smith - Saved from the Salvage

F Anstey - A Fallen Idol, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1886 Susie Mee Faded stains on rear boardF Anstey A Fallen Idol, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1886 The story is a humorous supernatural farce involving a young artist, Ronald Campion, who is gifted a small Indian idol. The idol is possessed by the malevolent spirit of a "Jinn" or demon, which begins to exert a disastrous and malevolent influence on Ronalds life, sabotaging his artistic career and his engagement to his fiance, Sybil. The pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Patterned hardcover in poor