"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Strange Tales & Mysteries
Broken Homes.
London: Gollancz, 2013. [Mystery fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 375 [1]. Signed by author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Patrick Knowles, illustrated by Stephen Walter, printed price £14.99. Internally bright and..... 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
Dead Man's Bay.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Trent's Own Case.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. Toronto bookseller's stamp to flyleaf. Erasure of heavy pencil inscription also to flyleaf. Gently toned throughout. Only very minor rubbing to cloth;..... More
![Item #50087 Pharos The Egyptian [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 8. Guy BOOTHBY, Arthur Conan...](/pictures/thumb/50087.jpg?v=1534949575)
Pharos The Egyptian [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 8.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., June to November 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.vi; 716. With many photogravure illustrations. Contemporary deep burgundy half calf with gilt titles to spine and dark green foliate cloth. All edges flecked red; yellow coated endpapers. Binding rubbed and worn, slightly..... 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
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[The Riding of Ninemileburn, in] Blackwood's Magazine No. MCLVIII [1158].
London: William Blackwood and Sons, April 1912. FIRST APPEARANCE. Large octavo, pp.[32], 445-496. In publisher's light brown paper wrappers with titles and contents to front cover. Some expected wear; small losses to spine; very good. The first appearance of a strange tale included in the published collection 'The Moon Endureth'..... More
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[The Riding of Ninemileburn, in] Blackwood's Magazine No. MCLVIII [1158].
London: William Blackwood and Sons, April 1912. [Weird tales] FIRST APPEARANCE. Large octavo, pp.[32], 445-496. In publisher's light brown paper wrappers with titles and contents to front cover. Some external wear, address stamp to upper, old tape to head and tale of spine; very good. The first appearance of a...... More
The Lost Witch.
London: Andersen Press, 2018. [Young Adult Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 325 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to publisher's bookplate affixed to flyleaf. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine, and light green endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Kate McKendrick, priced..... More
The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding. And a Selection of Entrees (Short Story Collection).
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1960. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 255 [7]. Handsomely bound in recent half green calf over cloth-covered boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Some light foxing to first and final leaves else a fine copy in..... More
The Pale Horse.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 242 [2]. Publisher's red paper over boards with white titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Small ownership label to front pastedown. Light toning and spotting to edges, otherwise a crisp, clean..... More
Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS, a Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 297 [3]. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and grey cloth over boards. Fore edge untrimmed; grey endpaper. With the purple dust-jacket designed by Kris Woolsey, priced..... More
The Man From The Clouds.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First US Edition. Crown Octavo. pp. 292. In publisher's blue cloth titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. From the library of Otto Penzler, owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York. Very minor edgewear, a light bump to head..... More
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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
![Item #46808 The Wrong Corpse [and] Let's Have Some Murder [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol....](/pictures/thumb/46808.jpg?v=1500288490)
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
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
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor.
London: BBC Books / Penguin Random House, Ebury Publishing, 2018. [Children's Science Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[6] 230 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half title. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards with Forbidden Planet 'Signed' sticker to upper board, and barcode sticker to lower..... More
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
![Item #36509 Bones [in] Tales From Many Sources. Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE, authors](/pictures/thumb/36509.jpg?v=1493310850)
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
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
The Collector.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Psychological Horror] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.283 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and top edge orange. With the first issue dust-jacket designed by Tom Adams, priced at 18s. Very light rubbing and a couple of small chips and..... More
![Item #46805 A Tombstone for Taro [and] Terror Holds the Gun [in] Street & Smith's Detective Story...](/pictures/thumb/46805.jpg?v=1500288490)
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
Blackfeet Indian Stories.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 214. Colour-illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's green cloth, with white lettering to spine and upper, and a chromolithograph on the front cover. Internally crisp and clean, with some toning to edges. faded writing..... More