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— Oscar Wilde
Strange Tales & Mysteries
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
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 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
We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. [Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Gorham, priced at 18s. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Toning and spotting to edges, with some light wear to cloth. Jacket..... More
The Lady of the Barge.
London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 300. With 12 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Greiffenhagen. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and black titles and decoration to upper. A black ink gift inscription..... 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
Weird Tales September 1951
New York, NY: Weird Tales Rockefeller Plaza, Sept. 1951. Quarto. Original pictorial wraps. Trimmed flush with page block. Clean and fresh, spine unchipped, colours bright and crisp. Contains 'Gimlet Eye Gunn' as a representative of the World War II zombie pirate vs. the Japanese genre (a wide field), with an..... More
People of the Twilight.
Llandudno: The Kaner Publishing Company. 1946. First edition. Octavo, pp. 188. Orange publisher's cloth with black titles to spine and front. Some light wear to the covers with bumping to the corners, some marking and the spine being slightly tanned. Ownership inscription in pen on flyleaf. A fine copy. More
The Child, The Wise Man and The Devil.
London: James Bowden, 1896. Spiriturality / Religion. Signed Limited Edition. Number 83 of 500 on handmade paper. Publisher's cream buckram boards titled and heavily decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Darkened to spine, nevertheless very handsome. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Internally clean. A charmingly written piece of..... More
Skeleton Crew.
London: Macdonald, 1985. [Short Horror Stories] FIRST UK TRADE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.512. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £9.95. A clean copy with a bit of light general handling, a touch sunned to spine. Near fine. A selection of..... More
The Brushwood Boy. With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. [Fantasy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). With ninety-two numbered leaves printed on rectos only. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour, frontispiece with tissue guard present. Mid blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Ink name/date, very light and occasional spotting, some moderate..... More
Under the Deodars. The Phantom 'Rickshaw. Wee Willie Winkie. And Other Stories.
Allahabad: Messers. A. H. Wheeler and Co., [and] London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington Ltd., no date [1888]. [Fiction] THREE TITLES IN ONE VOLUME. English issues of the Indian edition; Under the Deodars is the second edition, The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Wee Willie Winkie both being first editions. Octavo..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More