"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Strange Tales & Mysteries
Madame Crowl's Ghost. And other Tales of Mystery. Collected and Edited by M.R. James.
London: G. Bell. 1923. [Strange Tales] FIRST Edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.viii; 277, including epilogue by M.R. James. Black cloth lettered to spine and upper in gilt, top edge purple. A splendid copy of a collection of Le Fanu ghost stories. Discreet owner name and date stamped in ink..... More
Cruisers in the Clouds.
London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., Ltd., 1910. Large 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth spine titled in black; pictorial boards with additional illustration pasted down to upper. Frontispiece in colour and numerous black and white illustrations by H.J. Rhodes. Inscription to first blank. Binding rubbed along extremities, corners bumped; age toning..... More
Arsene Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1910. Mystery. Crown octavo. pp.350. Translated from the French by George Morehead. No edition stated. Publisher's green cloth decoratively stamped in white nand dark green. A beautiful, fine, unread copy of this Sherlockian pastiche. More
The Valley of Sapphires.
London, Ward Lock. n.d.[c.1910]. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue ribbed cloth, light wear to extremities and bumped to spine ends. Dusty top edge, internally clean save for the inclusion of a purple 'Newcastle Chronicle Library' stamp to the front pastedown and some very minor toning. All edges untrimmed. Solid, bright..... More
The Earth Motor.
Salem: Statesman Publishing Co. n.d. [1920]. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's grey cloth, titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. Clean and sharp, minor bumping to spine ends, a near fine copy. In an impressive example of the scarce dustwrapper, minor fraying and chipping to extremities, light soiling..... More
The Threshold of the Unseen; Some Romances Relating to the Other World.
London: Hugh Rees, Ltd, 1913. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 580. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Some marking and spotting throughout the textblock. Front inner hinge split, showing the gauze. Some abrasion to the flyleaf. Bumping to the head and tail caps, and to the corners..... More
The Hounds Of Tindalos.
London: Museum Press, 1950. [Strange Tales]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.352. Black calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. Some foxing, exterior unmarked. A very good copy in an attractive recent leather binding. The author's first collection of supernatural stories... More
The Coming Race... With; Pausanius The Spartan, and The Haunted and The Haunters. Rienzi, What Will He Do With It [under the pseudonym Pisistratus Caxton].
London; Routledge and Sons. 1892. Author's Copyright Edition. Large 8vo. Bound in contemporary half burgundy morocco over maroon boards. Light sunning and edgewear to extremities, some rubbing. Bright, strong and sharp. very good indeed. All edges marbled. Internally clean, the occasional bit of light toning. A handsome bound collection of..... More
The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt. [The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville], which treateth of the way to Hierusalem, and of marvayles of Inde, with other ilands and countryes. Reprinted from the edition of A.D. 1725. With an introduction, additional notes, and glossary, by J.O. Halliwell.
London: Edward Lumley, 1839. FIRST THUS. Also including the editor's preface to the 1727 edition. Octavo. pp. xvii, xii, 326 [2]. With wood-cut frontispiece, and frequent further in-text wood-cut illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt crest to upper board and further blind decoration. All edges..... More
Garnered.
London. Methuen. 1904. Short stories, some criminous. First Colonial Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt to spine, lightly worn to extremities with tape residue to rear panel. Essentially clean, strong and bright. A collection of Marsh stories including a couple of weird and fantastic ones; A Little..... More
The Sleepless.
London: Heinemann, 1993. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[4]; 474; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, dust-jacket designed by Button Design Co., with printed price of £15.99. Textblock lightly toned with some very slight spotting to edges. Wrapper lightly handled. Near fine. More
The Rainbow in the Valley. A Martian Fantasy.
Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1939. FIRST EDITION with rare jacket. Octavo, pp.viii; 258; [2]. In publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With original light blue dust-jacket, largely faded to cream, with black titles to spine and front cover. Jacket faded to cream; remains of green price label to..... More
An Adventure.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1935. Bound in green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper shows panelling in red and titles in black to front cover, titles in black to spine, and review of Second Sight In Daily Life to rear cover. Includes several fold out maps to rear. Binding..... More
Confessions of a Young Man.
London: William Heinemann, 1929. Octavo, pp.301. Elegantly bound in half brown morocco, extra gilt, with marbled boards, top edge gilt. Trivial wear with some toning to flyleaves. Very good indeed. Issued as part of The Traveller's Library. 'Confessions' is a literary memoir by the Irish author, decsribing his formative years..... More
The Tales Of The Genii; or, the Delightful Lessons of Horam, the Son of Asmar. Faithfully Translated from the Persian Manuscript, and Compared with the French and Spanish Editions Published at Paris and Madrid.
Dublin: Printed for P. Wilson [etc.], 1765. [Strange Tales]. EARLY EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xxxii; 254; [2]; 288. In contemporary full mottled calf with gilt titles to red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Large horizontal tear to p.13/14 of volume I. Some..... More
Chronicles of Martin Hewitt. Being the Second Series of Martin Hewitt Investigator.
London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, Limited., 1895. COLONIAL EDITION. Octavo pp. 322, [6 ads.] Original brick red cloth titled in black to upper and spine. Illustrated with black and white frontispiece and plates by D. Murray Smith. Cloth rubbed, particularly to spine. Spotting to edges and occasional faint foxing to..... More
The War of the Worlds
UK; United International Pictures 2005. Movie teaser print /mini poster for the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, starring Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins. Poster is landscape format, with title and globe image, promotional version showing release date july 1 [2005]. Overall dimensions approx. 11 x 16 inches, portrait. Fine condition, archivally..... More
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
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