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New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1885. First edition. Four volumes. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spines and uppers. All volumes clean and sharp with light wear to spine ends, pale spot to lower edge front board volume III. Volume I has some minor..... More
London: John Murray, 1918 [1931]. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, secondary binding. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.x; 246. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, pale blue-green dust-jacket priced at 6s. Neat ownership and date stamps to flyleaf. A lovely fine copy in fresh jacket, with reduced..... More
New York, NY: H.M. Caldwell Company, no date [circa 1896]. [Strange Tales] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] 206. With two illustrated plates, a portrait frontispiece of the author, and decorative title page. Publisher's generous green quarter cloth with silver titles and decoration to spine and flower-patterned paper over..... More
London: Constable, 1894. [Supernatural Fiction]. FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Small octavo (16 x 9cm), pp.125. Ribbed blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, gilt dragon design to upper. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Minor toning to edges, cloth a little worn at extremities, bookplate 'Christopher Clark Geest', pencil..... More
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1914. [Detective fiction] TRUE FIRST EDITION, prior to UK first printing, which was not illustrated. Post octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. With seven full-page illustrations by Arthur I. Keller, including the frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt. Light wear only, some minor..... More
London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896. [Strange Tale] FINELY BOUND, a uniform edition. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[8] 381 [7]. With frequent engraved illustrations by the author. Contemporary green full calf by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels and further gilt..... More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1944. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xix; 572. Bound in publisher's grey cloth with red title to spine, in a pictorial dustjacket. Book in very good condition, binding holds well, tape repairs to boards, endcaps pushed, some markings along board edges, and discoloured areas to rear board..... More
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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1900. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.lviii; 386; [ii], advertisements; 16, catalogue dated Autumn Season 1900. Original black cloth pictorially stamped in gilt with a rather menacing 'vampire bat' motif, top edge gilt. Internally fine, covers with a few minor marks, some bumps and one short tear at..... More
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
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
London: Doubleday, 2001-2006. [Children's Fantasy Humour] COMPLETE SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 17cm), pp.220 [4]; pp.253 [3]; pp.316 [5]; pp.304; pp.335 [1]; pp.332 [4]. With chapter headings illustrated by the author. Each volume SIGNED by the author to title page in ink matching the colour..... More
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
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
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
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
London: Cassell and Company, 1908. [Fantasy adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 376 [8]. With eight black and white illustrated plates by A.C. Michael, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device to upper. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Heavy..... More
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
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
New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, no date [circa 1900]. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations. Bound in recent dark green half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles on black squares and gilit tooling on red squares to spine. Top edges gilt. Neat ownership inscriptions, to the title..... More
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
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
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
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
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