Los Angeles: [The Author], 1938. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece of Pythagoras of Crotona by J. Augustus Knapp. 244pp. A fine copy in a nice dust jacket, slightly tanned on the spine, minor tears. Foreword by Manly P. Hall. Listed in... More
London: Samson Low, Marston & Company Limited. 1895. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original dark red straight-ribbed cloth over beveled boards titled in gilt and ruled in blind on spine & front panel, black coated endpapers. 319 pp, 8 full-page black & white plates, Index at rear. Heraldic bookplate... More
New York: William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, 11 Murray Street, 1886. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Small octavo, original decorated red boards titled and designed in black. 112 pp. Light rubbing to cloth, a very good clean copy. ¶ Historical novel with fantasy elements; the main character is Olbasanus, a sorceror... More
No Place: Three Hands Press. 2015. First Edition, Special Deluxe Issue. Full Leather. First Edition, First Printing. 190 pp. Octavo, original full bistre goatskin embellished with a large gilt device on both the front & rear panels, spine panel titled, ruled and decorated in gilt, handmade marbled endpapers, top edge... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers. [1940]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original green cloth, spine titled and blocked in gilt and black. 396 pp. Top edge dusty, boards a bit darkened at edges, a very good copy in a nice example of the scarce colour pictorial... More
London: James Barrie. 1951. First British Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. [288] pp. Spine panel very (very!) slightly leaned, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, a few small closed tears to the edges and small chips at spine head... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 549 & 551 Broadway. 1873. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel. Brown coated endpapers. 383 pp. Contemporary ink inscription on preliminary black, dated Jan 26, 1874; moderate... More
Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press. 1998. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in dark blue linson boards, spine lettering gilt, dark blue endpapers, head-and tail-bands. 257 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Collects seventeen stories, being the entire... More
Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press. 2001. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in grey linson boards, spine lettering gilt, front panel lettering and pictorial panel in dark red, dark red endpapers, head-and tail-bands, dark red satin bookmark. Pictorial title page in imitation of the Keynotes Series. 265 pp. Issued in... More
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Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. The first appearance in print of this essay on M.R. James, apparantly uncollected. It does not appear in her one collection of tales, The Fellow Travellers and Other Stories (Ash-Tree Press, Ashcroft, British Columbia, 1998). Tiny stains and... More
London: Holden & Hardingham. [1920]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Chapman & Hall in 1907. Small octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine panel. 252 pp. Cheap paper browned, as usual. Boards darkened and rubbed, slightly stained, small split along hinge near spine head, edges chaffed... More
London: Holden & Hardingham. [1920]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Eveleigh Nash in 1913. Small octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine panel. [248] pp + [4] pp of ads for other books by Hodgson at rear. Cheap paper lightly browned, as usual. Ink name on... More
London: Holden & Hardingham. [1920]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Stanley Paul & Co. in 1909. Small octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine panel. [248] pp + [4] pp of ads for other books by Hodgson at rear. Almost no browning to the cheap pulp... More
London: Holden & Hardingham. [1921]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Chapman & Hall in 1908. Small octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine panel. [252] pp. Cheap paper lightly browned, as usual; ink name on front pastedown, spine panel faded; boards lightly chaffed along front spine... More
London: Wandering Star, 1998. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Tall crown octavo, original blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt on spine & front panel, pictorial endpapers, top edges gilt, full colour pictorial wrap-around dust jacket. Issued in a limited edition of 1050 hand-numbered copies signed by the illustrator, this... More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 219 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece and three additional full-page plates. Corners a touch briuised; a very good, bright... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, . 1947. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original black cloth. 3,082 copies printed. Tiny nicks and a spot of wear at spine tips, a near fine copy in dust jacket. ¶ Collects 21 tales, mostly collected from the pages of WEIRD TALES Magazine. The author's first book. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1894. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 12mo, original tan buckram stamped in dark brown, publisher's logo on front panel. 224 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Cloth moderately dust-soiled, a clean, very good copy. ¶ Collects... More
London: Leslie Frewin, 1975. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition of this collection. Octavo, original black boards titled in gilt on spine panel. 256 pp. Nine full-page black & white illustrations by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor on text paper throughout and included in the pagination.Upper corners just slightly rolled, a fine... More
London: Peter Owen. 1987. Later Edition. Hardcover. Later Edition. This text was first published by Peter Owen in 1955. Octavo, original black boards titled in silver on spine panel. 222 pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, minor tanning to spine panel. ¶ Supernatural stories. Collects six... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gold on spine panel. 2030 copies printed. 174 pp. A few tiny marks to cloth, slightly bumped at heel of spine panel, a near fine copy in the attractive Richard Taylor dust jacket lightly... More
London: Simon & Schuster. [1992]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original boards. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, price-clipped. A sharp, crisp copy. ¶ The first in the Anno Dracula series, an alternate history novel using 19th-century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters... More
Bradford: Caliban. 1998. First Edition Thus. Octavo, original pictorial white cloth stamped with a design of a winged skeleton in black, red, purple and gold, gold titles to spine and front cover, top edges stained purple, marbled endpapers. 97 pp. 250 numbered copies printed, this being copy number 200, signed... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Leather. Rackham's second (and best) edition, revised and largely redrawn from the original 1898 edition. Quarto, bound in full green morocco, the spine with raised bands with titles and decorations in gilt, gilt decorative boards on front & rear... More
Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Second Edition. Paperback. Second edition. Card covers. Originally issued by Ash-Tree in 1994. A fine copy. More