"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Strange Tales & Mysteries
The Male Response.
London, Dennis Robson, 1961. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, light edge spotting, else fine. In fine dustwrapper. More
The Brass Bottle. Daily Mail Sixpenny Novels No. 84.
London: The Amalgamated Press, with Smith, Elder and Co., for the Daily Mail, no date [circa 1915]. [Strange Tales] SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.144. With a frontispiece, decorated title page, and two further illustrated plates by Brock. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers. Quite heavily browned throughout. Final leaf of..... 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
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
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
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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
Don't Break the Seal.
London: Gerald G. Swan, 1946. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, and toned to low-grade economy paper; otherwise an exceptionally clean..... More
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] Signed First Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece and two title pages, all by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's black cloth with blind titles to spine. All edges..... More
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] Signed First Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. SIGNED by both the author and the artist in black ink to title page. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece, by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the white..... More
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] First Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 782 [8]. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece, by Portia Rosenburg. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. With the white dust jacket with black lettering, designed by William Webb (one of two distinct bindings, the..... 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
The Struggle for Empire. A Story of the Year 2236.
London: Eliot Stock, 1900. [Science fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 213; [3]. Publisher's green cloth, titles in gilt to spine and upper board, dark blue coated endpapers. Very small closed tears to the fore edge of a few pages, sporadic light spotting and the occasional mark to..... More
After Dark.
London: The Gresham Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1900]. [Classic Literature]. FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 355 [1]. With six wood engraved plates by Browne, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, along with distinctive white and green decoration. Grey endpapers. Black ink..... 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
Two Fables.
London: Viking, 1986. FIRST EDITION, slim octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.64. Publisher's black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in striking red and black dust jacket designed by Bet Ayer. Somewhat bleak illustrations by Graham Dean, including one disturbing colour print as a frontispiece. Minor edgewear; near fine. Two adult..... More
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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
Behind the Crimson Blind. Another Adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale.
London: William Heinemann, 1952. [Crime Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 283 [1]. With a bookplate detailing provenance to flyleaf. Publisher's black cloth with titles now oxidised to a light green colour. Cream endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Stein, priced at 10/6..... 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