"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Strange Tales & Mysteries
The Unseen World. Communications with it, Real or Imaginary. Including Apparitions, warnings, haunted places, prophecies, aerial visions etc.
London: Joseph Masters. 1853. Second edition, with additions. Small 8vo. Publisher's embossed red cloth title in gilt to spine. Expertly rebacked. Minor scuffing and edgewear, clean and bright, very good. Yellow endpapers. Ink addition to preface page details the date of publication of the first edition. An interesting little book..... More
The Green Curve. And other stories.
London, William Blackwood. 1909. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's light brown cloth titled in black and decorated to front board with a green...well a curve, obviously.Bright and clean with minor spotting to page edges. Marginal dampmark to pages 150-170 caused by a drop of something splashed by a nervous reader. A...... More
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In Strange Company [featuring] Mysterious Mr. Sabin; Pharos the Phoenician; The Scallywag; In Strange Company.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., Limited, c.1900. FOUR 'SIXPENNY NOVELS' BOUND BY THE PUBLISHER. Large octavo pp. 127; 156; 150; 80. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to upper, in a decorative blindstamped border, and spine, with black endpapers. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. Light rubbing to edges..... More
A Gaggle of Ghosts.
London: Robert Hale, 1971. [Supernatural] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15 cm), pp.191. Publisher's purple cloth, silver titles to spine, top edge purple, dust-jacket designed by C. R. Evans with pritned price of 30/-net (£1.50). Textblock lightly toned to edges, cloth and wrapper lightly rubbed, small area of abrasion to..... More
The Gormenghast Trilogy; Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950, 1959. [Gothic Fantasy] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm), pp.438; 454; 222. Illustrated frontispiece to final volume. Elegantly hand-bound in red half calf over matching cloth sides, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered to twin black title..... More
Border Ghost Stories.
London: Erskine MacDonald, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. pp.303. Bound in publisher's dark red cloth, blind ruling to boards, gilt titles to spine; top edge stained maroon; endpapers show scene of a reaver overlooking the Scottish borders, with some lines from The Lyke Wake Dirge. Binding is a little bumped and..... More
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Tales; Poems; Criticisms.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1874. [Complete works] FIRST THUS, in a variant cloth. Four volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 17cm), pp.[4]; c; 513; [1]; pp.vi; 569; [1]; pp.viii; 517; [3]; pp.[2]; viii; 574; [2]. With a frontispiece engraving to each volume, and occasional in-text vignettes. Publisher's green, rather..... More
The Gold Bug.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1894. [Strange Tales] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, first thus. Very small octavo in half-sheets (13 x 8cm), pp.[8]; 123; [5]. With fine occasional engraved illustrations by Mittis, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. In very fine contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven Edition.
New York, NY: The Lamb Publishing Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Strange Tales] FINELY BOUND SET. 10 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 35cm). With eight half-tone plates to each volume, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous vignette illustrations. An out-of-series copy from a limited edition of 1000 copies..... More
The Works of E.A. Poe (including Tales of Mystery and Imagination).
New York: The Chesterfield Society / Bigelow Smith and Company 1909. EDITION DE LUXE, printed for subscribers, limited to 1000 numbered sets (this being out-of-series). Crown octavo; 10 volumes complete. A beautiful edition, illustrated with fine photogravures and black and white plates, title-page printed in gilt and colours. Elegantly hand-bound..... More
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Fordham Edition. With an Introduction and Memoir by Richard Henry Stoddard.
New York, NY: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1900. [Strange Tales] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Six volumes, octavo (20 x 14 x 22cm). With facsimile documents (folding), illustrated headpiece decorations and frontispiece portrait. Elegantly bound in recent brown half morocco, gilt titles and decoration to spine, brown cloth over boards, and..... More
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. [including Tales of Mystery and Imagination].
London: Published by J. Shiells and Co., 1895. [Strange Tales]. FINELY BOUND. Eight volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm). With 24 fine photogravure plates. Contemporary dark red half calf with two maroon title labels, gilt raised bands and gilt to spines. Marbled boards and end papers; top edges gilt, others untrimmed..... More
The Bells.
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1881. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Square octavo, 24 thick leaves. An unusual presentation in publisher's linen backed grey paper covered boards with silver, gilt and brown pictorial upper; all edges gilt. Upper inner joint starting. Black and white illustrations and text printed on recto side only. Boards a...... More
The Scarlet City. Being the adventures of John Franklyn and his friend Anthony Fuller: In and out and round about the Wicked World in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.
London, Sands and Company. 1899. First Edition.8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth decorated and titled in red and white. Cloth slightly darkened and a trifle rubbed to extremities but showing remarkably well, an attractive solid book. More
V.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott. 1963. First edition, 8vo. 492 pp. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue oasis morocco, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, centre ornament, gilt border to covers, marbled endpapers, top edge tinted blue, publisher's original cloth bound in at rear.A fine copy in an attractive recent leather..... More
Atavar. The Dream Dancer. A Craig Kennedy Novel.
New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1924. First Edition; 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, rubbed, with red titles to spine and upper. Edges yellowed with very light spotting. A tight copy of this adventure of Craig Kennedy, the scientific detective. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [1972]. More
Dr. Zell and the Princess Charlotte.
New York, NY: L. Kabis and Co., 1892. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Publisher's decorated pale blue cloth, titled and decorated in dark blue, titled in gilt to the spine, floral-patterned endpapers. Internally clean with two ink stamps to front 'Lowell Theosophical Society' and Masonic book distributor's stamp to title..... More
The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man, by Van Chamisso. Together with : The Cold Heart, by W. Hauff. With an introduction by Dr A.S. Rappoport. Illustrated by Forster Robson.
London: Holden and Hardingham, c.1913. 4to. Publisher's pictorial green cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and gilt pictorial titles to upper board; top edge gilt, others untrimmed Tipped-in and full-page colour illustrations, entitled tissue guards. Binding a little rubbed along extremities, corners bumped; some light foxing; otherwise fine. An..... More
Daughter of Fu Manchu.
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. 1931. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 316. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles and decoration to front and spine, fore edge untrimmed, black endpapers. In suitably sinister pictorial dustjacket designed by George Annand. With inscription by Sax Rohmer to the half title page. Slight..... More
Emperor Fu Manchu.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1959. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in white to spine, striking pictorial dust-wrapper clipped and re-priced by the publisher at 6/6. A near fine copy of the book (slightly bumped), in an attractive wrapper with..... More
The Island of Fu Manchu.
London: Cassell, 1941. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.282. Publisher's black cloth blocked in red to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Ban priced at 8s. Neat gift inscription to flyleaf, edges uniformly toned, jacket clean and bright with a couple of small nicks. A near fine copy..... More
She Who Sleeps.
London. Cassell. 1928. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt, clean fresh and bright with slight bumping to spine ends. Spotting to page edges, tiny nick to cloth at head of spine. Internally clean, very occasional light spotting. In bright, clean dustwrapper with some light edgewear and with..... More
The Yellow Claw.
Lippincott's Magazine. 1915. First appearance in print, bound from the parts. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent half green morocco leather with gilt titles to spine, black title label. Green cloth boards and plain endpapers. Near fine. Bound from the parts extracted from the 1915 issues of Lippincott's Magazine predating the..... More
The Phantom Death.
London, Chatto and Windus. 1895. First Edition. 8vo. 275pp + 32pp ads dated Dec. 1894. Publisher's green cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to spine and front board. Edges untrimmed. Slight darkening to spine otherwise only minor edgewear. A very handsome copy. Patterned endpapers, internally clean. Neat pencil..... More
The House of Fear.
London; T. Fisher Unwin. 1927. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth titled and ruled in black to spine and front board. Minor edgewear, sharp and clean, spots of sunning to spine panel, a very handsome copy indeed. A scarce title in first edition. More