Strange Tales & Mysteries
Mad Morgan's Murder Sanctum [and] Danger! Dead Men! Detour! [in] Detective Story Magazine. Vol. IX, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., May 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
Death by Diagnosis [and] Headless Horseman [in] Street & Smith's Mystery Detective. Vol. II, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Very small chip to head of spine. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories..... More
Murder's Strip Tease [and] The Wrong People [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. VI, No. 12.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., July 1953. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. 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
The Wrong Corpse [and] Let's Have Some Murder [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. V, No. 2.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1949. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. 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
A Tombstone for Taro [and] Terror Holds the Gun [in] Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. Vol. VII, No. 3.
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
The Devil is Jones [and] The Startled Face of Death [in] Street & Smith's Detective Monthly. Vol. 1, Issue 11.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
Waste lands.
London: Ward Lock and Co. 1935. Mystery novel. FIRST EDITION, later state. Octavo. In the secondary binding of green cloth, lettered in black, in original jacket repriced to 5/- and with publisher's book number overprinted to spine. The striking dust-wrapper depicts 'reaching' hands, with a leather glove motif to the..... More
Pause to Wonder. Stories of the Marvelous, Mysterious, and Strange.
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
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
Borrhomeo the Astrologer. A Monkish Tale.
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1985. [Strange Tale] LIMITED EDITION. Large Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.35 [1]. This is number 52 of 150 copies thus. Simple cream card with blue textured jacket. Plain paper title label to upper. A little light wear to covers. Near fine. This short story was published..... More
People of the Twilight.
Llandudno: The Kaner Publishing Company. 1946. First edition. Octavo, pp. 188. Orange publisher's cloth with black titles to spine and front. Some light wear to the covers with bumping to the corners, some marking and the spine being slightly tanned. Ownership inscription in pen on flyleaf. A fine copy. More
The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
Adrift in The Pacific.
London: Readers Library, n.d. [1927]. Reader's Library edition, by special arrangement with Sampson Low. Publisher's gilt-embossed cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Some expected toning to cheap paper, fragile jacket with a few chips and tears, notably to foot of spine with partial loss of imprint. Nonetheless a remarkable survival of a...... More
The War in the Air and Particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways Fared while it Lasted.
George Bell and Sons, London, 1908, FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pps.[viii]; 389. With 16 monochrome illustrations by A. C. Michael. In a robust private binding of grey cloth with morocco label titled in gilt, top edge gilt. Some light spotting else clean, in lightly rubbed binding. Wells' famous 'scientific romance'..... 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
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
Round the World in Eighty Days.
London: Julian Wylie, n.d. Sixpenny novel paperback format. 8vo. Publisher's lavishly illustrated card wraps. Minor edgewear and some soiling to white spine and rear panel. Strong and bright with no loss, a very good copy. More
Bones [in] Tales From Many Sources.
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
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
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
Weird Tales September 1951
New York, NY: Weird Tales Rockefeller Plaza, Sept. 1951. Quarto. Original pictorial wraps. Trimmed flush with page block. Clean and fresh, spine unchipped, colours bright and crisp. Contains 'Gimlet Eye Gunn' as a representative of the World War II zombie pirate vs. the Japanese genre (a wide field), with an..... 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
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 Male Response.
London: Dennis Robson, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Harry Grimley, priced at 16s. A little light handling and some spotting to edges. Jacket a little rubbed to edges. Near fine. More