PEARCE, Philippa (author). Janet ARCHER (illustrator). The Shadow-Cage and other tales of the supernatural. London; Kestrel Books. 1977. Signed

8vo.; original dark green cloth lettered in silver to spine, in pictorial dustwrapper with wrap-around design; pp. [viii], 9-141 + [i]; with atmospheric half-, and full-page illustrations in black and white by Janet Archer; a fine copy in an equally fine, unclipped dustwrapper (£2.75).

First edition. A presentation copy with a personal inscription in red ink by the author to the front free endpaper, “For dear Isabel with love, Philippa, April 20, 1977”.  

Ten tales of the supernatural, woven with eeriness and foreboding, which will chill and haunt the reader, by the author of the children’s classic “Tom’s Midnight Garden” (1958).