"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
Strange Tales & Mysteries
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
Shutter Island.
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2003. [Psychological horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.x, 325 [1]. Publisher's red quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Chip Kidd, priced at $25.95. Very lightly sunned to spine. Light..... 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 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 Horror From The Hills.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1963. [Strange Tales] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6] 110 [4]. One of just 2000 copies. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Taylor, priced at $3.00. Jacket spine toned, with some light..... 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 Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951. [Strange tales] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, in the house style Gollancz dust-jacket with printed price of 9/d net. Some spotting to edges, offset toning to endpapers. Wrapper sunned to spine and front panel..... 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
A Feast For Crows. Book Four of A Song of Ice and Fire.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005. [Fantasy Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 753 [21]. With maps to preliminaries, an appendix, and a preview of 'A Dance with Dragons' at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Larry Rostant, priced..... 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
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
The Utopia of Sir Thomas More: in Latin from the edition of March 1518, and in English from the first edition of Ralph Robynson's Translation in 1551, with additional translations, introduction and notes.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1895. [Utopia] FIRST THUS, a new edition. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.c; 347 [10]. With errata slip. Recent brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco labels on spine. Marbled paper over boards; top edge gilt. Faint library stamp and markings to..... 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
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
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; pp.454; pp.222. Illustrated frontispiece to final volume. Elegantly hand-bound in red half calf with marbled paper over boards, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered to twin black..... 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
A Dweller on Two Planets, or, The Dividing of the Way.
Los Angeles, CA: Poseid Publishing Company, 1920. [Strange Tales and Esoterica] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 423 [1]. With eight black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine and upper. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown. Browning to edges and endpapers;..... 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 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