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Strange Tales & Mysteries
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
London: Pan, 1984. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo. pp. [5], 191. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles in silver to spine. Black dust jacket, designed by Gary Day-Ellison, with holographic panel to front cover, and titles in white to front cover and spine, unclipped. Includes publisher's compliment slip. Binding shows... More
The Male Response.
London, Dennis Robson, 1961. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, light edge spotting, else fine. In fine dustwrapper. More
The Ms. In a Red Box.
London; John Lane, The Bodley Head 1903. FIRTS EDITION, octavo, 352pp + 4 (advertisements), with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in original mid blue pictorial cloth with gilt titles to spine. Some minor edgewear, page edges a little toned and shaken within case, ink ownership to flyleaf. Very good. Historical... More
The Ms. In a Red Box.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head 1903. Mystery. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.352; [4], advertisements), with folding map as frontispiece, title page printed in red and black. Original mid-blue pictorial cloth. A variant publisher binding with blocking in white only (no gilt or red colour), spine imprint as 'Bodley Head' (not... More
Contribute to The Strand Magazine: The Brass Bottle, Playing With Fire, etc. An Illustrated Monthly.
London: George Newnes Limited January- September 1900. This run includes the complete serial of Anstey's fantasy tale 'The Brass Bottle', plus stand-alone stories by Conan Doyle, E.Nesbit, Bret Harte and E.W Hornung, plus articles on the conflict in South Africa by Rudyard Kipling and Conan Doyle. Together nine magazines, with... More
Abishag.
London, Thornton Butterworth. 1925. First UK Edition. Publisher's light brown cloth, titled in black to spine. Lightly bumped to spine ends. Spotting to page edges. Internally clean. In a crisp, clean dustwrapper with chips and loss to upper right front panel and the head of spine just affecting top edge... More
When Churchyards Yawn. Fifteen New Ghost Stories.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1931. [Ghost Stories]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.287 [13]. In publisher's dark grey cloth with silver titles to spine. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Slight reading lean; wear to fore-edges. Spine head-cap pulled with some loss. Good overall. More
A Journey In Other Worlds. A Romance of the Future.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First Edition. Octavo, pp.vi, 476. Illustrated with 10 plates. Publisher's dark blue cloth opulently decorated in silver gilt and and titled in gilt to spine and front board with a silver planetary design to the rear board. Minor tanning to margins, ownership inscription to... More
The Resurrection of Merion Lloyd.
London, Thornton Butterworth. 1929. First Edition. 8vo. 284pp + 1pp ads. Publisher's light green cloth, titled in black and blind to spine and front board. Beautifully fresh and clean, a fine copy. In a near fine dustwrapper, clean, bright and unsoiled with very slight edgewear, and a triangular chip to... More
The Episodes of Vathek.
London: Stephen Swift, 1912. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Large Octavo, pp.xxxi, 207; 127 [14]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author. In publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board. Brown end-papers. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Leaves largely un-cut. Spine... More
Across The Stream.
London: John Murray, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. pp.314. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with titles in black to front board and spine. Binding is rubbed and bumped to corners and spine ends, with a slight lean, and a little spotting to front edge of text block. Internally clean and free... More
My Psychic Adventures.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1923. First UK Edition. Octavo. Publisher's beige cloth, with titles in black to front board and spine. In original dust jacket, with titles in red to front cover, titles in red to spine, and publishers advertisements in red to rear cover; still with original price... More
The Empty House.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1915. THE UNIFORM EDITION. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. UNCOMMON. Octavo, pp.vii; 316. This uncommon copy of The Empty House is bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. The book shows leaves of irregular width - a possible production fault which has led to a rather... More
Incredible Adventures.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1914. First Colonial Edition. Octavo, pp.366, 8 Macmillan adverts. Bound in publisher's pale blue cloth, floral knotwork design stamped in navy with titles in gilt to front board and spine. Binding is a little umped to spine ends, with some sunning to spine. Internally clean and... More
Jimbo. A Fantasy.
London, Macmillan. 1909. First edition. 8vo. 258pp + 2pp ads. Publisher's pale red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Spine faded (as is so often the case with this book) and the spine gilt has appreciably dulled. Nevertheless a clean and respecatble copy, solid strong and bright... More
John Silence.
London, Eveleigh Nash. 1908. First Edition. 8vo. 390pp. + 34pp ads dated Spring 1908. Publisher's burgundy cloth faded to spine, titled in gilt to spine and front boards, light scuff to mid front board; strong, bright and crisp, a handsome book. Internally clean, minor marginal spotting. A very good, strong... More
The Wolves of God. And other Fey Stories.
London, Cassell. 1921. First Edition. 8vo. Bound in publisher's variant brown decorated cloth, blue being the more common colour for this volume. A collection of tales of the weird and supernatural in nature. Packed to the gills with mysterious storms, unusual portents and a quantity of ill-fated hunting expeditions. Mr.Blackwood... More
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump. Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times. Prepared for Publication by Reginald Bliss. With an Ambiguous Introduction by H. G. Wells.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1915. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. Octavo pp. 342. Publisher's dark green cloth, illustration to upper and titles to spine, all in gilt. Top edge gilt and plain endpapers. A little rubbing to head of spine, light spotting to edges. Blindstamped 'Presentation Copy' to title page... More
Sheilah McLeod. A Heroine of the Back Blocks.
London, Ward Lock and Co. N.d. (c.1898). Crown octavo, pp.311; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. Publisher's decorated dark blue cloth blocked in gilt and white to the spine and upper, edges untrimmed. A little shelfwear and rubbing, generally clean. A very good copy of this early edition issued in the same... More
Dr. Nikola's Experiment.
London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1899. Strange Tale. Crown octavo, pp.340 + [2], advertisements. Publisher's decorated dark blue cloth, stamped in gilt and green. Internally clean, ink ownership, minor rubbing to cloth, flyleaf re-attached at joint. Another installment in the career of the enigmatic Dr.Nikola; master mesmerist and breeder of demonic... More
Dr. Nikola.
London. Ward Lock. 1906. Sixpenny paperback edition. 8vo. Original publisher's illustrated card wraps, bright and clean, some minor edgewear and shallow chipping to extremities. Slight soiling to the rear panel. Illustrated with full page plates. Internally clean. A very good, strong copy of a fragile object. Nikola was one of... More
Long Live The King.
London, Ward Lock. 1900. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth over bevelled boards titled and decorated in gilt.Slight bumping to spine ends and minor scuffing to extremities. Clean and sharp. Spotting to page edges and light foxing to prelims, some minor spotting otherwise a fresh clean copy from the... More
The Dark Bough.
London: Staples Press, 1955. First Edition in English. Octavo. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with publisher's crest in gilt to front board, and titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper shows a night scene of a woman crossing a lawn towards a house surrounded by dark trees filled with... 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
An Act In a Backwater.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. [Literature]. BRAM STOKER'S COPY. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.276; [8], advertisements. Red cloth decoratively blocked in black and gilt. Moderate general wear, spine dulled, some effective tightening of the cloth. Very good. One of the author's typical social comedies, this copy's status is rather... More