BENCHLEY, Nathaniel

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NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First edition. 248pp. Blue quarter-cloth; dust jacket. Dust soiling to textblock top, light toning to leaves. Price-clipped jacket with moderate rubbing, fading to spine, 1-inch closed split to top of front panel hinge. Very good or better in very good jacket. A somewhat uncommon work by American novelist and children's book author Nathaniel Benchley (1915-1981); a "salty New England ghost story" (jacket flap) about a haunted summer home. Basis for the 1967 horror-comedy film The Spirit Is Willing, directed by William Castle. Jacket art by Chas Adams. Show more