Strange Tales & Mysteries
Sleep and His Brother.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Mystery fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at 28s. Textblock top edge tinted blue. Light spotting to textblock edges, wear to edges of dust-jacket, more so to..... More
The Shrine of Death.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. [Macabre] LIMITED EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.160. With illustrated majuscules, vignettes and headpieces. Number 75 of just 150 copies in this edition, printed by Unwin Bros., Ludgate Hill. Expertly bound in a suitable sombre full black oasis morocco in the..... 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 Great Keinplatz Experiment, And Other Stories.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Company, 1894. [Supernatural] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.232. Publisher's red cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper and spine. Gilt ruling and floral device to upper. Title page lettered in black and red. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Leaves moderately..... More
His Last Bow. Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London: John Murray, 1917. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 305 [7]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Contents clean, some browning to endpapers, cloth shows a few marks, faint cup ring to upper, spine sunned, gilt dulled to same. Overall very good..... More
The Poison Belt. Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee, and Mr. E.D. Malone, the discoverers of "The Lost World".
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.vii; 199; [1], blank. With sixteen full-page black and white plates drawn by Harry Rowntree. Publisher's mid-blue pictorial cloth, titled in gilt to the spine, tooled in black to upper. Some light spotting within, no inscriptions..... More
The Lost Stradivarius.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. [Strangle Tale/Fantasy] FIRST US EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 239 [13]. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's red cloth, titles and pictorial motifs in black and gilt to upper and spine. Internally clean with the odd mark here and there. Both endpapers re-hinged..... 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
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 Magic Mirror. A Round of Tales for Old and Young.
London: Alexander Strahan, 1866. [Illustrated Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. [vi]; 290. 84 small in-text illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to front board, gilt edges of textblock, embossed illustration to back board. Spotting to pages, darkening of..... More
The People of the Mist.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION, MIXED ISSUE with p.vi misnumbered as 'ii', p.1 line 21; 'auctioneers' correctly spelled. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 343; [1]; 24 of advertisements. Sixteen full page illustrations by Arthur Layard, including a frontispiece. Publisher's slate cloth over bevelled boards, titled..... More
The People of the Mist.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with p.vi misnumbered as 'ii', p.1 line 21; 'auctoineers' for 'auctioneers'. Advertisements dated 9/94. Octavo (19x 14cm), pp.viii; 343; [1]; 24 of advertisements. Sixteen full page illustrations by Arthur Layard, including a frontispiece. Publisher's slate cloth over bevelled..... More
Benita. An African Romance.
London: Cassell & Company, 1906. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 344 [16]. Catalogue date 8.06. With 16 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by Browne. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and patterned endpapers. Black ink ownership to half-title. Heavy spotting to edges..... More
Hannibal Rising.
London: William Heinemann, 2006. [Psychological thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 323; [5]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, black endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Glenn O'Neill, printed price £17.99. A bright, clean copy. Minor bumping to spine, light creasing to dust-jacket upper edge. Fine. From..... More
Geyserland. Empiricisms In Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded by the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington, DC: printed for R. Hatfield, 1908. [Science Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.451 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in gilt and decoration in green to spine and upper. Top edge gilt. Lacks front free endpaper. Edges toned, with a little spotting to frontispiece and..... More
The Jonah.
London: New English Library, 1981. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.253; [1]. Publisher's white boards, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by James Herbert priced at £6.50. Some light spotting to preliminaries and edges, textblock otherwise clean and bright. Cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, some marking to..... More
Carnacki The Ghost-Finder.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.287; [1]; 16. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Red cloth to boards, gilt titles to upper and spine. Embellishment in blind to both boards. Ex-library copy; library record to rear paste-down, offsetting from stamp to rear flyleaf. Interior moderately..... More
The House On The Borderland. And Other Novels.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. [Strange tales] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 639; [1], colophon. Publisher's black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, pastel-hued pictorial dust-wrapper priced at $5.00. Text block slightly toned, jacket bright and fresh with some minor edgewear; near fine. Not merely..... More
Hoffman's Strange Stories.
Boston, MA: Burnham Brothers, 1855. [Strange Tales] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] 444. Publisher's blind-decorated dark green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Heavily toned to edges, to leaves up to p.14, and from p.397 to end. Two leaves, pp.305-308, are heavily chipped and toned to edges, with..... More
The Island of Fantasy. A Romance.
London: Griffit Farran, 1892. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION, three volumes complete. Octavo (19 x 13 x 9cm), pp.288; 302; 300. Pagination appears to be correct, with half-titles to vols. 2 and 3 (evidently not called for in first volume). Publisher's light blue cloth blocked in gilt to spine, and titled..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Henry Frowde, 1905. [Children's Illustrated] LEATHER-BOUND OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. [2]; lv; 527; [3]. With 26 engravings, including a frontispiece portrait of the author, by Cruikshank, Leech and others. Publisher's green cloth with maroon label and gilt lettering to spine, gilt decorations to boards, dentelles. Marbled..... More
The Conquistadors.
London: Collins, 1969. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.336, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Autographed to the half-title in black ink. A particularly sharp example, with strong red colour to the spine. A fine history of..... More
We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. [Strange Tale] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Charles Gorham, priced at 18s. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Toning and spotting to edges, with some light wear to cloth. Jacket..... More
Light Freights.
London: Methuen & Co., 1901. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 295 [49]. With 12 line-drawn plates by Stacey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine, and all in black to upper. Spotting throughout; quite heavily to edges. Toning to..... More