Les contes du whisky

Overview:

  • Title: Les contes du whisky
  • Author: Jean Ray
  • Year: 1946
  • Publisher: Atalante (Belgium)
  • Pages: 219
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Les contes du whisky
  • Notes:
    • First and unique printing in this edition.
    • No price on book.
    • No ISBN.
    • Collection followed by two other sections : "Histoires dans le brouillard" (from p. 85 to p. 162) and "Histoires hantées de terre et de mer" (as from p. 163).
    • Cover artist's name (an obvious pseudonym based on the initials RB) from signature.
    • Note many spelling and typographical discrepancies between the titles in the book and the ToC. Note also the inconsistency of certain spellings within stories : thus, in Les étranges études du docteur Paukenschlager, the latter name is spelled "Paukenschlager" and once "Paukenschlâger", whereas one finds "Paukenschläger" in the Toc, and the name in capitals on title page.