Collins, Wilkie, — The Moonstone.

NY, Doubleday, 1946. VG in Fair DJ. Illustrated cover, DJ tears & price clipped. Printed from plates of the original limited edition, a masterpiece of. outlandish horor. John Herncastle was in Seringapatam, one of India's holy cities, when it was stormed by the British in 1799. He had heard of a large & pedulia diamond called the Moonstone & by the massacre of its keepers was able to steal it out of the forehead of a sacred idol. But one of the guardians pronounced a horrible curse on those with unlawful possession of the gem, and when it disappeared after Herncastle's death, tragedy followed tragedy.