Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1897. Quarto [9¾ x 8¼ inches, 248 x 210 mm], original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & full colour chromolithography. Splitting along spine panel (about halfway) with some light associated wear, glazed covers with..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, [1938]. First British Edition. Original maroon linen, gilt lettering to spine panel. 8°, 350 pp. Small bookseller's ticket and nice older ink name on front paste-down, a near fine bright copy. ¶ An account of a prisoner's 15 year sentence in French Guiana at..... More
London: Philip Allan. [1932]. First Edition. Octavo, original tan cloth titled in black on spine panel. Covers a bit grubby, small split along outer rear spine hinge, wear at head of spine, slight vertical crease to spine panel. A good, sound copy, in a modern colour facsimile dust jacket. ¶..... More
![Item #303275 THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY PARSON [along with] THE RECREATIONS OF A COUNTRY...](https://thompsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/303275.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539363762)
London: Parker Son and Bourn, West Strand. 1861 & 1862. Early Editions. Hardcover. Two volumes. Volume One is the Second Edition, Volume Two is the Third Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth decorated in blind on all covers, gilt titles on spine panels, brown coated endpapers. 373 + 6 pp publisher's..... More
Liverpool: The Ghost Story Society, 1989. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled at spine. 21 pp. Issued as Ghost Story Society Special Booklet No.1. ¶ Edited by Jack Adrian and produced by Rosemary Pardoe on behalf of the Ghost Story Society. Collects three pieces first published..... More
Bearsville, NY: Retort Press. 1950. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed boards with taped cloth spine (as issued); in Dust Jacket. 138 pp. Illustrated throughout by Lowell Naeve. Minor stains; a very good copy in a good dust jacket that shows some staining and has pronounced chips, primarily..... More
Paris: H. Daragon, Libraire-Editeur, 96-98, rue Blanche, 1909. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original wrappers printed in red and black. 40 pp. Text in French. Mild browning to edges of wrappers and to text block, a lovely copy, nearly fine. A rare book. ¶ François Jollivet-Castelot (1874 -..... More
No Place: No Publisher, No Date. WWII Handbill designed to be dropped from Allied airplanes over Italy as propaganda to gain support of the Italian People for the Allied cause, blaming Mussolini, the Fascists and their alliance with Nazi Germany for the conflict. Originally a speech given by Churchill for..... More
London: George Newnes Limited. No Date [1920's]. Quarto, original blue cloth stamped in black and gold. [22] pp, tipped-in colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 65 additional black & white plates tipped onto heavy paper stock with tissue guards. With a biographical introduction by Sir J.G. Linton, R.I. A near fine..... More
Springfield, MA: Linweave Limited Editions. 1932. First Edition (& 1st printing). First Edition. Quarto, original printed wrappers. 4 pp. Illustrated with a Photograph by Anton Bruehl, designed by Elmer Adler. Printed on Linweave Text Wove Ivory Antique Finish paper. Stab-holes on spine (possibly disbound from a larger volume?), a very..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni. [1926]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Black cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Pictorial end papers by Keith Henderson. 445 pp.,frontispiece & 5 additional full-page illustrations printed on text paper but not included in the pagination, as well as some smaller vignette..... More
London & New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original yellow buckram lettered and decorated with a design by Charles Robinson to spine and upper cover. 275 pp, + 14 pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated 1898). Inscribed on the front..... More
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers. [1906]. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black & brown, spine panel lettered in black. 310 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard and five additional full-page black & white plates by Grunwald. Small bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper (Paul Elder & Company..... More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press. [1933]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original light green cloth lettered in gold on spine and front panel. 328 pp., Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, 15 additional black & white plates, Index. Issued in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Higinbotham, this..... More
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Amstelodami (Amsterdam) & Trajecti Batav (Utrecht): Janssonio-Waesbergios & Jacobum a Poolsum, MDCCXXXIII (1733), First Printing of This Edition. Quarto, contemporary full blind-stamped vellum, black leather title label on spine lettered in gilt. [48], 668, [134] pages. Engraved Frontispiece, title leaf printed in red & black with intaglio vignette, one additional..... More
York Beach, Maine: The Teitan Press, 2009. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original red cloth, gold lettering. 239 pp., colour frontispiece, one plate, Index at rear. Issued in an edition limited to 950 numbered copies, this copy being No. 321. Small faint stain on to top page edges, dust..... More
No Place [BC]: No Publisher [The Author], No Date [1936]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original light blue pictorial wrappers, stapled at spine. [11] pp, unnumbered. Light darkening to the covers and a few tiny marks, a Very Good clean copy. Rare, self-published, not in Waters, Lowther, or Edwards..... More
Strassburg: Johann Grünniger, 1484. A large folio bifolium from the 1484 edition of Grantianus' DECRETUM printed in Augsburg Germany by Johann Schüssler. The bifolium measures 395 x 555 mm (15 ¾ x 21 ¾ inches) printed in black & red in four columns. Light staining to upper margins, still quite..... More
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty, 1839. First British One-Volume Edition. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth , gilt lettering to spine panel, coated pale yellow endleaves. [i-v], vi-viii, [1], 2 - 440, frontispiece portrait, Issued in BENTLEY'S STANDARD LIBRARY OF POPULAR MODERN LITERATURE (No..... More
Chester, UK: Haunted Library, 2006. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original printed wrappers, stapled at spine (pamphlet style). 16pp + covers. Cover artwork by Dallas Goffin and Nick Gadsby. Issued as Haunted Library Publication #30. A few small flaws to covers otherwise a near fine clean copy. ¶ Excellent..... More
London: Printed for Sherwood, Jones & Co., Paternoster Row, 1823. Second Edition, Improved and Very Considerably Enlarged, With Plates. Small octavo, contemporary calf with small blind decorated border and another line border in gilt, rebacked neatly with modern calf, contrasting red leather title label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. 396..... More
![Item #314444 THE VAMPIRE [along with] A WOMAN'S ANSWER TO THE VAMPIRE. Rudyard KIPLING, Felicia...](https://thompsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/314444.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771379344)
[United Kingdom]: No Publisher, No Date (Circa 1910). 2 postcards 8.9 x 13.8 cm.; both printed on rough card stock, unused. Prints Kipling's poem THE VAMPIRE, a misogynistic piece of writing depicting a married couple, the husband doing all the work for the family and the woman being "the vampire"..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Edition (& 1st printing). Large thick quarto, publisher's brown cloth binding with titles in gilt on the spine and embossed gilt design of crossed scimitars on the front panel. Original beige dust jacket with black titles on front panel and spine. The First Edition published..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. [1895]. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green decorative cloth lettered and designed in gilt, silver, red and black. 434 pp. + [1] pp. ads at rear. Frontispiece & 23 plates by Harold Piffard. Spine a bit browned, some rubbing to the tips, mild..... More
Chiroptera Press, 2025. First Chiroptera Press Edition. Octavo, original oatmeal buckram lettered in gilt, coloured pictorial paper label affixed to front panel, marbled endpapers, silk bookmark, all edges gilt, slipcased. 88 pp., interior illustrations by Romano. Issued in an edition of 350 numbered copies; this is, however, copy No. 92..... More