Description
The first edition, first printing of The Watchful Gods and Other Stories, signed by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Octavo, 306pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in white on spine. Stated “First Printing” on the copyright page. In the publisher’s dust jacket, price clipped, chipping along edges, wear at head of the spine. Dust jacket designed by Hans Barschel.
Signed on the front free endpaper by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Clark’s only published short-story collection, the volume gathers nine stories and the title novella, including Hook, The Wind and the Snow of Winter, The Portable Phonograph, The Rapids, The Anonymous, The Buck in the Hill, Why Don’t You Look Where You’re Going?, The Indian Well, and The Fish Who Could Close His Eyes.
