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— C. S. Lewis

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..... More
London, Dennis Robson, 1961. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's cloth, light edge spotting, else fine. In fine dustwrapper. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253. 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..... More
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
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
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
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1934]. [Strange Tales - Omnibus] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.1024. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, illustrated green dust-wrapper. An unquestionably fine copy with some light wear to spine tips and a few tiny nicks. A comprehensive collection of eighty-eight wierd..... More
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
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1935]. [Ghost Story Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.702; [2], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth blocked in black, illustrated green dust-wrapper. Discreet owner name and date stamped in ink to flyleaf else a crisp, fine copy with a few tiny nicks to..... More
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..... More
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
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
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..... More
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..... More
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. More
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
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
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..... More
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. More
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..... More
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..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. [Fantasy] Signed First Edition Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10]; 782; [8]. Publisher's white cloth, titles in shiny black to spine, white dust jacket with black lettering (also produced in black with white lettering ), designed by William Webb. Contains several rather haunting illustrations, including frontispiece and..... More
London: Bloomsbury, 2006. [Fairy tales] SPECIAL BOXED EDITION, First Edition. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[10]; 235; [11]. Grey quarter cloth over debossed pink paper covered boards, black endpapers, grey cloth slipcase blocked in black. A fine copy in original stickered shrinkwrap. This is the first printing of the boxed edition;..... More
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
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