Vancouver, BC: Discovery Press, 1975 & 1977. Two Volumes, original cloth, map endpapers. 8°, 429 + 439 pp., Plates, Indexes. First Edition, Second Printing of Volume One, First Edition, First Printing of Volume Two. Tipped-in colour frontispiece of Captain James Cook in Vol. One. A fine set in near fine..... More
No Place: No Publisher, No Date. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, bound in full soft dark blue morocco , front panel lettered in gilt, brown marbled endpapers. Unpaginated (circa 200 pp.), folding map printed in black, blue and red. Tanning to spine, small chip to leather at spine head..... More
[Boston]: The Edinburgh Review, 1831. First American Edition. Rebound in modern half calf over marbled paper boards, the spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and rules within the compartments, contrasting leather title label lettered in gold. pp [4 pp ads], [1], 2-3, [4-6] [all ads] [i]-ii, [1], 2-259, [16..... More
New York: John Lane Company, 1914. First American Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel, front panel bordered in blind. 320 pp. Small bookstore stamp on rear endpaper, small bit of cracking to upper portion of inner front hinge but holding together just fine..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. First Edition Thus (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original pictorial wrappers (pocketbook format). Issued as Ballantine Books Adult Fantasy 02305-6-095 (95¢), First Printing, July, 1971. 205 pp + ads. Wrap-around cover artwork by Gervasio Gallardo. One vertical spine crease otherwise a fine copy. ¶ Nightmarish..... More
Leiden / Koln. E.J. Brill. 1963. First Edition (& 1st printing). First edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 272 pp. Issued as Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten. Siebenter Band. From the Library of Dr. Charles Muses. Light tanning to wrappers, a couple of small creases..... More
New York: Street & Smith. No Date [circa 1900]. Reprint. Octavo, original colour pictorial wrappers. Issued as Medal Library No. 117. 266 pp. Browning to text block, small stains, and minor chips. A very good copy. More
Liverpool, UK: The Haunted Library, 1990. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled at spine. 44 pp. The preeminent journal for M.R. James studies and Jamesian supernatural fiction. This issue is noteworth for printing for the very first time the unfinished tale "The Fenstanton Witch" by the..... More
Liverpool, UK: The Haunted Library, 1992. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled at spine. 45 pp. The preeminent journal for M.R. James studies and Jamesian supernatural fiction. A fine copy. Contents ifc • Contents • (1989) • interior artwork by Jim Pitts 1 • "A Little..... More
Liverpool, UK: The Haunted Library, 1997. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled at spine. 60 pp. The preeminent journal for M.R. James studies and Jamesian supernatural fiction. A fine copy. Contents 1 • The Lake • short story by C. E. Ward 14 • Skirmish •..... More
Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited. 1902. First Canadian Edition. Octavo, original green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green and gold. 374 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page, fifty additional full-page plates, plus binding design, all by Bull. Sheets of the American [L.C. Page] First Edition with a...... More
[London]: Ghost Story Press. 2003. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original green cloth stamped in black, marbled endpapers. 267 pp. 250 copies unnumbered printed. Inscribed by the author to Barbara and Christopher Roden (the proprietors of the Ash-Tree Press): "To Barbara & Christopher - with thanks for giving some..... More
London: The Francis Thompson Society. 1967. First Edition, First Impression. Quarto, original blue boards, gilt titles on spine. 67 pp. issued in a limited edition of 500 copies, this being copy No. 110. This copy is inscribed in pen on the title page "Henry Williamson for R. Dalby Hallowe'en 1967";..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 307 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. Title page printed in red and black. Heraldic bookplate of George H. Folger on front paste-down, with his signature and..... More
New York: Duffield & Company, 1910. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First American Edition, preceding the British Edition. First issue without the Lewes and James quote on the title page and with the title page integral [Currey Issue A]. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front..... More
Seattle: Midnight House, 2001. First Edition Thus (& 1st printing). Octavo, original burgundy cloth lettered in gilt. 285 pp. 460 hand-numbered copies printed of which this is copy No. 41. Frontispiece portrait of the author and dust jacket artwork by Allen Kosowski. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..... More