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— Abraham Lincoln
Strange Tales & Mysteries
The Collector.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Psychological Horror] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.283 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and top edge orange. With the first issue dust-jacket designed by Tom Adams, priced at 18s. Very light rubbing and a couple of small chips and..... More
The Chase of The Golden Plate.
London: Collier and Co., 1908. First edition. Octavo, pp.224. Near fine in publisher's ribbed bottle green clothtitled in gilt to the spine and front board. Decorated in blind to front board with two pictorial inlays. Light bumping to head and tail of spine otherwise fine. Internally clean A splendid copy..... More
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A Tombstone for Taro [and] Terror Holds the Gun [in] Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. Vol. VII, No. 3.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., February 1950. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. One faint mark to front cover, and a small chip to head of spine. Almost..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: George G. Harrap and Company, Limited, 1929. [English Literature] FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.232. With twelve plates in colour and several black and white illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles and floral decoration to, top edge gilt, illustrated end papers. Contents fine, discreet gift..... More
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Model Murder [and] Death in Dirty Linen [in] Street & Smith's Shadow Mystery Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 3.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., August 1954. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
The People of the Mist.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with p.vi misnumbered as 'ii', p.1 line 21; 'auctoineers' for 'auctioneers'. Advertisements dated 9/94. Octavo (19x 14cm), pp.viii; 343; [1]; 24 of advertisements. Sixteen full page illustrations by Arthur Layard, including a frontispiece. Publisher's slate cloth over bevelled..... More
Benita. An African Romance.
London: Cassell & Company, 1906. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 344 [16]. Catalogue date 8.06. With 16 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by Browne. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and patterned endpapers. Black ink ownership to half-title. Heavy spotting to edges..... More
Allan's Wife. And Other Tales.
London: Spencer Blackett, 1889. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.331 [36]. With eight black and white illustrated plates by Greiffenhagen and Kerr, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and plum-coated endpapers. Large gum mark to front pastedown where a bookplate..... More
Ayesha. The Return of She.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1911. [Fantasy Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.384. With eight black and white illustrated plates by Greiffenhagen, including a frontispiece. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles and blind decoration to spine and upper. Some spotting to endpapers and preliminaries; toning..... More
Finished.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1917. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's mid-green cloth with stylistic blue titles to spine and upper. Edges of text block toned, dicreet ink name and date to pastedown, binding rather clean. A very..... More
Red Eve.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, No date [1911]. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 296; [16], Catalogue. Publisher's gilt-titled red cloth with colour plate illustration laid down to upper. Four colour plate illustrations including frontispiece. A little spotting, some browning to endpapers, covers bright with minor wear. Very..... More
Geyserland. Empiricisms In Social Reform.
Washington. Privately printed for R. Hatfield. 1908. First Edition. 8vo. Very good in publisher's gilt decorated cream cloth. One small nick to the cloth along bottom edge of front boardand a little shelfwear otherwise an unusually clean copy of a downright unusual book. Postulating the existence of lost human forebears..... More
Phantom. Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan.
London: Martin Secker, 1923. First UK Edition. 8vo; pp. 214, (10). Publisher's original grey cloth, clean and unmarked, with titles in black to spine and upper, black rule to upper. A few specks of foxing present to the untrimmed lower edges; very slight rubbing to extremities. A superb, tight copy..... More
The Jonah.
London: New English Library, 1981. [Horror]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.253; [1]. Publisher's white boards, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by James Herbert priced at £6.50. Some light spotting to preliminaries and edges, textblock otherwise clean and bright. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, some marking to..... More
Hoffman's Strange Stories.
Boston, MA: Burnham Brothers, 1855. [Strange Tales] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] 444. Publisher's blind-decorated dark green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Heavily toned to edges, to leaves up to p.14, and from p.397 to end. Two leaves, pp.305-308, are heavily chipped and toned to edges, with..... More
No Honour.
London: John Hamilton Ltd., c.1930. SCARCE THIRTIES CRIME NOVEL. Octavo, pp. 224. Bound in green publisher's cloth with title, author's name, and publisher's logo in black to spine. In a pictorial dustjacket depicting a shocked suited gentleman encountering a policeman's body at night. Cloth boards in very good condition with..... More
The Sending.
Boston, MA/Toronto, ON: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp.186. Bound in publisher's subtlely patterned green cloth, with black cloth spine. In an illustrated dustjacket, designed by D. Christine Benders. As new/very fine. No visible signs of wear. More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
The Angry Mountain.
London: Collins, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.255. Publisher's pink cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Edges of text block a toned, neat ownership to flyleaf, jacket with a few chips and tears, sunned to extremities (and cloth beneath). Very good. An adventure novel unravelling beneath the blazing summit of Vesuvius in full..... More
The Conquistadors.
London: Collins, 1969. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.336, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Autographed to the half-title in black ink. A particularly sharp example, with strong red colour to the spine. A fine history of..... More
The Doomed Oasis. A Novel of Arabia.
London: Collins, 1960. Desert adventure set in the Persian Gulf. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.320. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Edge of text block a little toned, jacket is fresh. A lovely near fine copy. More
The Strange Land.
London: Collins, 1956. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Rose. Some overall dustiness and toning; accepatable wear. A very good copy. Adventure novel set in post-war North Africa. More
Rip Van Winkle. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, November 1905. [Children's Illustrated]FIRST RACKHAM EDITION, the trade issue, second impression. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.viii; 62. With 51 mounted colour plates by Rackham, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All..... More
Light Freights.
London: Methuen & Co., 1901. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 295 [49]. With 12 line-drawn plates by Stacey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and all in black to upper. Spotting throughout; quite heavily to edges. Toning to..... More
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The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed..... More