"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Strange Tales & Mysteries
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
A Valentine, and The Bells. Contained in Sartain's Magazine, volume V.
Philadelphia, July-December 1849. A Periodical. FIRST APPEARANCE of these poems. 8vo.; pp. 389 + 3. Contemporary binding of burgundy morocco, gilt, raised bands, elaborate gilt and blank tooled borders to boards. Small chip to head of spine, corners worn, inner hinges split, foxing. Good. With music scores, engraved illustrations both..... 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 Carpet People.
London: Doubleday, 2005. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.250 [6]. No. 79 of 1000 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. In publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With original green pictorial dust-jacket designed by David Wyatt, presented in a matching slip-case..... 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
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. Inscribed by the author's both pseudonymously and with their real names to Samuel Garcia..... 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
Fiends, Ghosts and Sprites. Inclusing an account of the origin and nature of belief in the supernatural.
London: Richard Bentley. 1854. FIRST PARLOUR BOOK CASE EDITION. Octavo, pp. 276. Bound in publisher's embossed green cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine, top edge and fore-edge deckled. Minor sunning to extremities, with some light bumping and faint shelfwear, endcaps pushed, cloth is slightly parted at top spine..... 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
Interview With The Vampire.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 372. Bound in publisher's black cloth with grey cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, publisher's imprint stamped to front board; top edge stained red, front edge uncut. Gold dust wrapper with titles in red, black, and white to front..... 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
Seven Sins.
London, Cassell. 1944. First edition. 8vo. Clean and bright in publisher's orange cloth, titled in black to the spine. In a scintillating dustwrapper depicting all the usual Rohmertropes: corpse, incense, and lashings of sinister orientalism. Some edgewear to the jacket, creasing and chipping to the spine ends, nevertheless most attractive..... 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
Honeymoon in Peril, A Novel.
London: John Hamilton, Ltd., 1934. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp. 294. Bound in blue publisher's cloth in illustrated dustwrapper, no price clipping, neat ownership inscription to pastedown. Cloth boards in very good condition, text block internally clean excepting some spotting to endpapers, some slight shelf wear. Overall a very good..... More
The Lost Viol.
London, Ward Lock. 1908. Strange tale.First edition. 8vo. 316pp + 16pp ads. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt and decorated in green to spine and front board. Light bumping to spine ends otherwise a clean and handsome copy. The helpful addition of a Book Lover's Library label to the front..... More
Duplicate Keys.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. PROOF COPY from Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley. Octavo, pp.305. Bound in soft red card covers with title, author's name, dimensions, and publishing details to front. Repeated logo of Jonathan Cape publishers, and 'uncorrected proof' repeated in a band across front and rear of book. Covers..... More
The Life and Prophecies of Mother Shipton. Extraordinary Revelations by this Wonderful Woman.
Birmingham: J Davidson, c.1880. Pamphlet. Octavo. Second Enlarged Edition. In green paper covers, with titles to front cover. Paper cover shows some wear, particularly at the hinge, with slight bleed through from contemporary purple stamp at rear. Text shows some foxing, primarily to edges. Introduction mistakenly credits Agatha Shipton as..... More