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Strange Tales & Mysteries
The Works of H. R. Haggard. Including: King Solomon's Mines, She, Montezuma's Daughter, The Spirit of Bambaste, Cleopatra, Alan Quatermain, The People of the Mist etc.
New York, NY: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, no date [circa 1900]. 20 volumes; octavo. With frontispiece illustrations. Bound in recent dark green half morocco with matching cloth sides, gilt titles on black squares and gilit tooling on red squares to spine. Top edges gilt. Neat ownership inscriptions, to the title..... 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
The Works of Wilkie Collins. Including The Woman in White, The Moonstone, After Dark, The Evil Genius, The Dead Secret, etc.
New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, n.d. (circa 1900). Complete in 30 volumes. Octavo. With frontispiece illustrations and many other full-page plates. Handsomely bound in brown half calf, gilt titles and decoration to spines, matching buckram boards, all edge speckled. Internally clean. A most attractive set in an elegant recent leather..... More
The Castle of the Carpathians.
New York, NY: The Merriam Co., no date [1894]. [Strange Tales] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.iv; 211 [1]. With 38 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Benett. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and black and white illustrations stamped to spine and upper. Bookplate of Francis E...... More
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The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed..... 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
Danger! And Other Stories.
London: John Murray, 1918 [1931]. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, secondary binding. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.x; 246. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, pale blue-green dust-jacket priced at 6s. Neat ownership and date stamps to flyleaf. A lovely fine copy in fresh jacket, with reduced..... More
Cesar Cascabel.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co., 1891. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii, 313 [35]. With 80 wood engraved illustrations by George Roux, including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt titles and polychrome blocked illustrations to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; foliate endpapers..... More
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven Edition.
New York, NY: The Lamb Publishing Company, no date [circa 1902]. [Strange Tales] FINELY BOUND SET. 10 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 35cm). With eight half-tone plates to each volume, including a frontispiece, as well as numerous vignette illustrations. An out-of-series copy from a limited edition of 1000 copies..... More
The House by the Churchyard.
London: Richard Bentley, 1866. [Strange Tale] New Edition, being the FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION. Features two engraved illustrations and expanded text). Publisher's ribbed bottle-green cloth, blocked in blind, decorated in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. We believe this to be the PRIMARY BINDING, having previously catalogued a variant (cheaper)..... More
The Gormenghast Trilogy: Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946, 1950, 1959. [Gothic Fantasy] FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 19cm), pp.438; pp.454; pp.222. Illustrated frontispiece to final volume. Elegantly hand-bound in red half calf with marbled paper over boards, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, gilt-lettered to twin black..... More
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. [including Tales of Mystery and Imagination].
London: Published by J. Shiells and Co., 1895. [Strange Tales]. FINELY BOUND. Eight volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm). With 24 fine photogravure plates. Contemporary dark red half calf with two maroon title labels, gilt raised bands and gilt to spines. Marbled boards and end papers; top edges gilt, others untrimmed..... More
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The Quarterly Review [Frankenstein]. Volume XVIII, Numbers XXXV and XXVI.
London: John Murray, October 1817 and January 1818. [Literary Reviews] REVIEW OF FRANKENSTEIN. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 554; [2]. Contemporary marbled boards, recently rebacked and re-cornered in tan calf with gilt titles to red morocco label on spine. All edges speckled red. Armorial bookplate of Reverend C. Tucker to..... More
The Island of Fu Manchu.
London: Cassell, 1941. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.282. Publisher's black cloth blocked in red to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Ban priced at 8s. Neat gift inscription to flyleaf, edges uniformly toned, jacket clean and bright with a couple of small nicks. A near fine copy..... More
The Discovery of The Dead.
London: A.C. Fifield, 1910. [Strange Tale / Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.190; [2], advertisements; [16], catalogue. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt and white to spine and front board. Internally clean, trivial handling. A fine copy. A scarce piece of supernatural pseudo-scientific weirdness dealing with the emerging..... More
Daughter of Fu Manchu.
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. 1931. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 316. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles and decoration to front and spine, fore edge untrimmed, black endpapers. In suitably sinister pictorial dustjacket designed by George Annand. With inscription by Sax Rohmer to the half title page. Slight..... More
The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Novel.
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1914. [Detective fiction] TRUE FIRST EDITION, prior to UK first printing, which was not illustrated. Post octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.320. With seven full-page illustrations by Arthur I. Keller, including the frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt. Light wear only, some minor..... More
The Stolen Bacillus. And Other Incidents.
London: Methuen, 1895. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. [x]; 275; [1], imprint; [32], catalogue, dated November 1896. In publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper board, edges untrimmed. Internally very clean, adverts mainly uncut although final four pages have been roughly opened. Cloth generally bright..... More
The Invisible Man. A Grotesque Romance.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. [Speculative fiction] FIRST EDITION, first Issue. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 246; [2] advertisements. With page 1 incorrectly numbered as 2. Publisher's pictorial red cloth titled in gilt to spine and upper with vignette in black to upper. Contents toned as usual, a few..... More
contribute to 'The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories'
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
The Ghost and Mrs Muir.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1947. [Ghostly fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x13cm), pp.173; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Jack Matthew, priced at 7'6 net. Textblock nice and clean, toned to edges. Neat ownership inscription to flyleaf. Cloth pushed to..... More
The Hound of Death. And Other Stories.
London: Odhams Press Limited, 1933. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.247; [5], blank. Publisher's plum-coloured cloth with titles in gilt to spine, in the suitably macabre wrapper. Some edge spotting, fugitive pigment of cloth with inevitable sunning to extremities, gilt dulled, jacket with a couple of small..... More
contribute to '50 Years of Ghost Stories'.
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
She Who Sleeps.
London: Cassell and Company, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth titled in gilt, with the colour illustrated dust-jacket. Clean fresh and bright with slight bumping to spine ends. Spotting to page edges, tiny nick to cloth at head of spine. Internally clean, very occasional light spotting. In bright, clean..... More
The Child of the Cavern; or, Strange Doings Underground.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. [Strange Tale] THIRD UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.xii; 246. With 44 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Jules Férat and Charles Barbant. Publiisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Bookseller's label and..... More