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Strange Tales & Mysteries
![So Long And Thanks For All The Fish [Hitch-Hikers Guide]. Douglas ADAMS.](/pictures/thumb/44719.jpg?v=1511187535)
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish [Hitch-Hikers Guide].
London: Pan, 1984. [Comedy-Fantasy] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm). 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...
The Male Response.
London, Dennis Robson, 1961. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, light edge spotting, else fine. In fine dustwrapper.
The Green Man.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252. Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 30s. A gently used copy with a sunned spine; near fine. A pub landlord starts seeing ghosts, in a particularly literate tale that must have inspired John Cleese's Basil Fawlty...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Long Live The King.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1900. [Adventure Fiction] First edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.384. With numerous half-tone plates by Read, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark blue cloth over bevelled boards titled and decorated in gilt to spine and upper board. Slight bumping to spine ends and minor scuffing to...
![Pharos The Egyptian [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume 8. Guy BOOTHBY, Arthur Conan DOYLE, Rudyard...](/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...
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...
A Voice From Mars.
London, Arthur H. Stockwell. [1923]. First Edition, in what we suspect to be the primary binding, subsequent bindings being titled in red or black this copy titled in gilt). Near fine in publisher's blue cloth titled and ruled in gilt. Slight rubbing to extremties otherwise bright and crisp. Dusty top...
Ormond, or The Secret Witness.
London: J. Cunningham, 1839. Octavo, pp.86. Extracted from The Novel Newspaper, no covers, with paper spine. Slight spotting to initial pages, otherwise clean. An excellent piece of Gothic fiction in which, as one contemporary reviewer put it, "The character of Ormond will appear to many a wicked, contradictory, unintelligible being...
Angels and Spaceships.
London, Gollancz. 1955. First Edition. 8vo. 224pp. A fine copy in publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to the spine. Bright and crisp. In a fabulously fugitive pink Gollancz dustwrapper, faded to spine but otherwise gorgeous, with the scarce wraparound band reproducing a fragment of Edmund Crispin's review.
![[The Riding of Ninemileburn, in] Blackwood's Magazine No. MCLVIII [1158]. John BUCHAN.](/pictures/thumb/49069BuchanBlackwood'sMagazine.jpg?v=1547505471)
[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 external wear; losses to head and tail. Good considering fragility. The first appearance of a strange tale included in the published collection 'The...
Castle Gay.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. Thriller. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.320. Publisher's green cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are used; some toning to edges, gummed label to flyleaf, jacket worn with several chips, losses and tears. Priced accordingly The second 'shocker' to feature Dickson McCunn, the unlikliest of...
The Moon Endureth.
New York, Sturgis and Walton. 1912. First US edition. 8vo. Near fine in publisher's ribbed green grey cloth titled and decorated in silver and black to spine and front board. Internally bright and clean, a lovely sharp copy.
The Moon Endureth. Tales and Fancies.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. First Edition, SIGNED dedication to: 'C.D. Carpenter / from / John Buchan' and dated 'May 1, 1912' in ink to first free end paper. 8vo; pp.324 + 4 (ads) + 64-page catalogue dated 12/11. A sound and tight copy in publisher's black cloth with...
The Moon Endureth. Tales and Fancies.
London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1912. [Strange tales] First edition. 8vo. 324pp + 68pp ads. Bound in publisher's charcoal cloth, titled and decorated in gilt and silver to spine and front board. Rubbed to extremtities with wear to the spine ends and some sunning and marking of the cloth. Strong and...
The Heart of a Dog.
London: Collins, Harvill, 1968. First UK edition. Octavo, pp.128. Publisher's purple cloth titled in gilt, in tan and purple jacket. Trival wear; a fine copy. A deadpan parable on the Russian Revolution in which a daring geneticist constructs a hybrid man-dog with scant regard for the consequences. Listed in BBC's...
The Second Crime Club Omnibus: Murder at the Vicarage, The Wedding Chest Mystery, Murder At The Pageant and Tragedy on the Line.
London: for The Crime Club Limited by William Collins 1932. FIRST EDITION thus. Collecting these four early Crime Club titles including the first ever Miss Marple novel. The individual books are all exceptionally scarce in dust-jacket. Thick 8vo, pp.1014. Publisher's hardback orange cloth binding, blocked in black, in the fragile...
![Witness for the Prosecution [in] Summer Pie Magazine. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame.](/pictures/thumb/51041.jpg?v=1530718970)
Witness for the Prosecution [in] Summer Pie Magazine.
London: Odhams Press, 1939. [Short Stories]. EARLY MAGAZINE APPEARANCE. A4 magazine (29 x 22cm), pp.100. Illustrated throughout in photogravure, with illustrations for the Christie story by Jack Faulks. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled to spine. Light browning to edges. Staples oxidising; some rubbing to edges and spine. Very good. First...