London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1980. [Tales of the macabre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.216. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket featuring an illustration by Andrzej Krause with printed price of £6.95 net. A little offsetting to endpapers, some slight toning to edges. Cloth and wrapper lightly..... 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: 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 [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., 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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