United Kingdom: The Society of Esoteric Endeavour, 2019. First Edition. Hardcovers in Slipcase. Octavo, original green cloth. Issued in an edition of only 224 numbered copies, This being copy No. 22. Four books, a folder of literature, and magical accoutrements (a glass skrying ball, glass egg, & glass cylinder all..... More
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1921]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original brown cloth titled and decorated in black on spine and front panel. 328 pp. Cloth heavily worn and frayed at extremities and somewhat dust-soiled; a sound, solid reading copy in good condition only. In a fine facsimile..... More
Venice: Presso Giuseppe Orlandelli, Per la Ditta del Fu Francesco di Nicolla Pezanna. 1795. A Beautiful 18th C. Edition in the Original Binding. Two volumes. 12mo, original plain paper wrappers over limp boards with lacing showing. 297 + 322 pp. Small, neat stamps on title leaves, old paper labels at..... More
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London: The Folio Society, 1964-1970. First Folio Editions. Hardcover. Seven Volumes. Octavo, each volume bound in quarter black leather with coloured cloth boards, the spines with a geometrical design by John Westwood in gilt on the spines each volume with the cloth and the spine blocking in different colours (red..... More
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., [1939]. First British Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original orange cloth titled in black on spine panel. 216 pp. Old tape marks to upper & lower boards, some small stains, cloth a bit rubbed, Note in ink on front free endpaper "J. MacFarlane Library June 18th 1939"..... More
Tyrnau: Typis Academicis Societatis Jesu. 1754-1755. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. 12mo. Five Volumes in Two; contemporary half calf over decorated paste boards, the spines ruled and titled in gilt on labels, all page edges dyed red. 268 + 264 pp (Books One and Two in the first Volume);..... More
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[London]: Skoob Books, 1990. First Edition. Original Wraps. First Edition. Thin quarto, original colour pictorial wrappers. 57 pp, Illustrated throughout, ads. The author's first appearance in print, an approximately 1300 word article (pp 54-55, two full pages of triple column type), plus a small illustration by Chumbley - a variant..... More
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row. 1825. First Edition, First Impression. . Tall octavo, rebound in plain greenish-grey boards sympathetic to the original, red leather label on spine titled in gilt. Unpaginated [169 leaves, 338 pp], 2 plates, Index at rear followed by [2] pp ads (one page..... More
No Place: Keep Silence Editions, 2018-20. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 10 volumes, quarto, original pictorial boards. Vol. I: No. 1: Spring 1909. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd; No. 2: Autumn 1909. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd; No. 3: Spring 1910. Privately published, London; No. 4: Autumn..... More
London: Secker and Warburg. [1982]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original green boards titled in gilt on spine. 128 pp. Inscribed by one of the editors on the title page: "For John Ruyle from Richard Lancelyn Green with my best wishes and thanks". Text paper browning, slight..... More
London & Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., 1939. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Contemporary rebinding in blue patterned cloth with titles in black on spine and a black circular ink stamp on the lower half of the front cover, in printed dust jacket. 334 pages. Publisher's device..... More
London: Griffith & Farran, No date [1883]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition. Large octavo, publisher's original maroon ribbed cloth, gilt titles and publisher's device on spine panel, bron coated endpapers. 526 pp., Index. Inner front hinge with a slight crack, cloth a bit worn at head & heel..... More
London: Duckworth, 130. First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 351 pp. Bookplate on front endpaper, along with the small ticket "From the Library of Ronald & Joan McNicoll". Very nice copy in a slightly chipped and frayed dust jacket, with the fragile purple lettering..... More
New York: Arno Press, 1976. Hardcover. Reprint of the London edition published by T. Werner Laurie in 1906. Octavo, original purple cloth titled in silver. Issued as a volume in the Arno Press Supernatural and Occult Fiction collection, edited by R. Reginald and Douglas Menville. A fine copy without dust..... More
London: Printed by William Clowes, 14, Charing Cross. 1832. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, paper spine label. 460 pp. Slip tipped in at rear annoncing "The Dispatches..." a companion to this work, prepared and shortly to be published. Front board and spine panel loose (separated), but..... More
New York: Authors & Publishers Corporation. [1927]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth lettered in gilt. 284 pp. A very good, bright copy. From the collection of John Ruyle. ¶ Mixed collection of short stories, some supernatural, some SF. One story, "The Hidden Continent", tells..... More
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1947. First Edition Thus. Quarter morocco. Octavo. Finely bound in quarter blue morocco over cloth boards, the spine with raised bands and with blind ruling and gilt lettering. Decorative floral endpapers. Top edge gilt. 228 pp, decorated title page, 16 illustrations, 9 tailpieces..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Two volumes. Octavo, original dark blue cloth bordered in blind and with a small decorative device in gilt on front panels, gilt decorations & titles to spines. Brown coated endpapers. 299 + 320 pp, [4] pp ads + [48] pp..... More
Leicester: Wyvern Bindery, Wellington Street, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Reprint of a work first issued in 1849. Octavo, original gray-green cloth blocked pictorially in gold on the front panel, titled in gold on spine. 63 pp., frontispiece and 5 additional black & white plates. Trifle bit of darkening to..... 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: Michael Houghton [The Atlantis Bookshop], 1949-1950. First Editions. Original Wrappers. Octavo, original printed wrappers. A Complete Set, All Published [Although Vol 2 No's 1-2 were issued in 1992]. Pagination is continous throught all issues, pp 1-[408]. Small pencil notes and marginalia to a couple of articles in the First..... More
London. Gollancz. 2018. First UK Edition, Deluxe Issue. Full Leather. Large thick octavo, bound in full blue leather titled and decorated in gilt, full colour endpapers, silk ribbon bookmark, slipcased. 992 pp, 56 illustrations (including seven colour plates), maps. ONE OF ONLY THREE COPIES MARKED "PC" [Publisher's Copy]. A fine..... More
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New York: B. W. Dodge & Company. 1908. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green pictorial cloth designed and lettered in black and white. Of two noted bindings, this is presumably the first state; an issue in grey cloth with black lettering and green designs also exists..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1972. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, original green cloth titled and ruled in gilt on spine. xvii + 825 pp. Small bookseller's ticket on front paste-down, slight shelf wear, a very good clean copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ "The main purpose of..... More
New York: Delacorte Press. [1984]. Advance copy [uncorrected proof] of the first edition. Octavo, original yellow printed wrappers. 300 pp. A few small stains to front wrapper, otherwise a very good copy. ¶ Hard-boiled novel set amid the surfing world in Southern California. A great book. A blurb on the..... More