Strange Tales & Mysteries
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
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 Child, The Wise Man and The Devil.
London: James Bowden, 1896. [Spiritual Literature] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 70 [6]. Number 83 of 500 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to the limitation page. Printed on fine handmade paper, with a photogravure frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard, and a...... More
Everything's Eventual. 14 Dark Tales.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. [Short stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 416. Publisher's red cloth, black titles to spine, black endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price £17.99. Toning to textblock, else internally clean. Bumping to upper board corners, minor rolling to spine, light creasing to dust-jacket edges..... More
The Brushwood Boy. With Illustrations by F. H. Townsend.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. [Fantasy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm). With ninety-two numbered leaves printed on rectos only. Illustrated with sixteen plates in colour, frontispiece with tissue guard present. Mid blue cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt. Ink name/date, very light and occasional spotting, some moderate..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] x; 306 [2]. With 20 engraved plates by Millar, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf by BUMPUS with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and green cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; marbled..... More
Puck of Pook's Hill.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. [Fantasy Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] x; 306 [12]. With 20 black and white illustrations by H.R. Millar, including a frontispiece. Advertisements dated 15.8.06. Elegantly hand-bound in red half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and the original cloth with..... More
Actions and Reactions.
London: Macmillan, 1909. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 301 [13]. Advertisements date Autumn 1909. Publisher's red cloth with pictorial gilt medallion to upper, and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. No inscriptions, some toning to endleaves, minor wear to covers, spine and extremities slightly sunned..... More
Traffics And Discoveries.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. [Short Stories / Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] vi; 393 [23]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. Some toning and spotting to edges and endpapers; internally clean. A little..... 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
A L'Hopital Marie Madeleine.
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. [Surrealist Novella] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.107 [5]. Number 709 of just 750 copies of the first edition. Publisher's plain soft covers with the brown paper wrap-around jacket titled in red and black to spine and front cover. Also with the glassine..... 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
Thru [Through] the Dragon Glass.
Jamaica, NY: The ARRA Printers for the Frank A. Munsey Company, 1917. [Fantasy Short Story] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Sexto-Decimo pamphlet (17 x 13cm), pp.24. Publisher's orange card covers, stapled twice. Light damp stain to lower corner of text. Covers toned, marked and chipped to edges. A rare survival of an..... More
An Adventure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. [Paranormal Activity] FOURTH EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.118 [2]. With four folding maps at rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blind ex-libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker to fly-leaf. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, otherwise..... More
An Adventure.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. [Paranormal Activity] FIRST EDITION, seventh impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 162 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt fleur-de-lis device to upper. All edges untrimmed. Light to moderate spotting throughout. Spine toned. Very good. A time travel classic set..... More
An Adventure. With Appendix and Maps.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Paranormal Activity] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 205 [3]. With a number of in-text maps and plans, and four black and white map plates at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt fleur-de-lis device to upper. All edges..... More
Tonda: A Story of the Sioux.
Cincinnati, OH: The Robert Clarke Company, 1904. [Native American Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 309 [1]. With 18 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth lettered and decorated in black to spine and upper. Hinges starting. A small tear to title page margin..... More
Utopia, written by Sir Thomas More in Latin, and translated by Ralph Robynson, to which are added The Life of the Author by his son-in-law William Roper, and some of his Letters. The Chiswick Library of Noble Writers.
London: printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1903. [Utopia] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Quarto (35 x 22cm), pp.xii; 265 [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page by W.L. Bruckman, as well as two woodcuts taken from the 1518 Basel edition by Ambrose Holbein. Number..... 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 Female of the Species. Tales of Mystery and Suspense. An Otto Penzler Book.
London: Quercus, 2006. [Short Strange Tales] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 275 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'to Myra and Murray | Joyce Carol Oates'. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £12.99..... 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
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 Picture of Dorian Gray: A Moral Entertainment. Adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the plain typographic dust-jacket. Light handling to price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More
People vs. Withers and Malone. Six Inner Sanctum Mystery Novelettes.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1963. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254 [2]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with mottled orange paper over boards, and black titles to spine. Top edge orange; others untrimmed. With the orange pictorial dust-jacket designed by Lawrence Ratzkin, printed price $3.50. Heavily..... More