Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 6 George Street / London : Houlston & Wright. No Date [between 1857 and 1869]. First Printing. 12 mo, original publisher's green cloth decorated in blind & gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, decorated and lettered in blind on rear panel, spine panel decorated and..... More
Paris: Aux Bureaux de la Revue Archeologique / Hatchette et Co., 1865. First Separate Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 86 pp, frontispiece plate, line drawings in the text. Offprint article from the Revue Archeologique, with the later label of Maisonneuve et Cie, Libraires. on front wrapper. Disbound from a larger..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House. 2010. First Hardcover Edition. Two Volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles on spines, small vignettes in gilt on upper covers, all edges trimmed. 102+102+102+102+102+102+102+130 pp, the page numbering from the original paperbound issues is maintained, the original covers are reproduced in colour. Issued in a...... More
London: The Reader's Library Publishing Company Ltd., No Date [1929]. Photoplay Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of the British Photoplay Edition, with stills from the 1929 Silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by British International Films. Octavo, original burgundy cloth titled and decorated in gilt on spine and front..... 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
No Place [London]: Fulgur for Xoanon. 1995. First Edition, Special Reserve Issue. First edition, Special Reserve issue, limited to just 5 unnumbered copies, THIS BEING COPY NUMBER 1 OF 5, bound in full black morocco spine titled in gilt, small gilt dot or "point" on front panel, all edges gilt..... More
London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1924. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original grey boards with buckram spine, leather label on spine titled in gilt. Printed on fine handmade paper. 274 pp, colour frontispiece and 11 addition full-page black & white illustrations throughout the text. Issued in a limited edition of..... More
Singapore: Golden Hoard Press, 2011. First Edition Thus. First printing of this edition. Large Folio, publisher's original black boards titled and decorated in gilt. 678 pp, Index, Illustrations. Slight browning to text block, foxing to page edges, a very good clean copy in a nice unworn dust jacket which shows..... More
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First Edition, First Printing, Deluxe Issue. First edition, Deluxe Issue, limited to 500 hand numbered copies signed by both Lord Dunsany and Sidney Sime, of which this is number 396. Large Quarto. Quarter vellum spine with brown cloth boards with single gilt..... 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
London: Henry J. Drane. No Date [1897]. First Edition, First Impression. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial tan cloth, spine and front panels decorated in black. 251 pp, 8 inserted black & white plates (complete). Minor internal foxing to sheets; neat (and interesting) bookplate on inner front cover presenting the volume..... More
No Place: Three Hands Press, 2017. First Edition Thus. Leather. First Edition, Deluxe Leather Edition limited to just 40 copies, this being copy No. 30. Octavo. bound in full black goat heavily decorated in gilt. 24 pages, printed letterpress, Designed by Daniel A. Schulke and Joseph Uccello, the book is..... More
Pinner, UK: Private Libraries Association, 1985. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Quarter Leather. Royal octavo, Quarter black morocco, grey cloth boards. Patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. No. 47 of 110 numbered copies, specially bound, signed by Joan Hassall. pp lxiii, 161, [7] plates,numerous reproductions of Hassall's wood-engravings throughout with an additional..... More
Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1886. "New Edition" Hardcover. Octavo, original publisher's full brown cloth heavily blocked in black & gilt on front panel, block in blind on rear cover. With 20 tipped in double-page maps [all maps are on guards and can be laid flat without loss]..... More
London: Grant Richards, 48 Leicester Square, W.C., n.d. [1903]. First British Edition. Octavo, publisher's original slate grey cloth lettered in gilt on spine, front panel lettered and with an attractive border in pale green. 348 pp, Frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional full-page black & white plates (by Charles..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961. First Edition, First Impression. First Edition of the Author's First Book. Octavo, original black boards lettered in purple on spine, publisher's device in purple on front panel. 166 pp. Browning to text block; otherwise a fine copy in a nice, very good or better..... More
London: G. Purkess, Compton Street, Soho; And All Booksellers, No Date [1850]. First Edition with these Illustrations. Title from illustrated title page. An additional printed title reads "The Monk, by M.G. Lewis, Esq. ... Beautifully illustrated. Octavo, bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled paper boards, the spine with raised bands..... More
New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004-2006. First Editions. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth, silver titles on spines. Five Volumes, all First Printings. 440 + 248 +357 + 300 + 382 pp, Indexes at rear of each volume, Chronology and Indexes to all 5 volumes at rear of Vol 5. Lower corners..... More
[No Place]: Privately Printed. [No Date]. Octavo, printed wrappers, stapled at spine. 12 pp (plus printed covers). Printed letterpress. Issued in an edition of "several dozen copies" (see note below). Of several noted variants, this copy measures 24 x 16 cm, and is printed on white laid paper, fore-edges untrimmed..... More
London: Museum Press Limited. No Date [1948]. First British Edition. Original black cloth titled in silver and with a skull design in yellow on spine panel. Light tanning to text block as usual with this book, but a fine copy, clean and fresh, in the original colour pictorial dust wrapper..... More
Olympia, WA: Pegana Press, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, hand-bound by the publisher in full pearl gray cloth covers, printed paper title label on spine and small pictorial label on front cover, black endpapers. Hand set & hand printed by letterpress printed on opalescent white Zerkall..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1966. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine. 3,460 copies printed. 321 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Contents include: The Dark Brotherhood by H. P. L and August Derleth, Suggestions for a Reading Guide, by..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, [1931]. First Edition Thus. First printing of this new edition. Octavo, original blue cloth boards with yellow cloth spine titled in black. 306 pp. Yellow spine cloth tanned & lightly soiled, minor bumps, a very good clean copy, in a beautiful dust jacket..... More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1917. First Edition. Octavo, original light blue boards lettered in black on spine, lettered and ruled in black on front panel, publisher's device in black on rear panel. 190 pp + [1] pp ad at rear for Wright's Coal Tar Soap. Printed on cheap wartime paper..... More
No Place [Westport, Ct]: The Apellicon Press. 1930. First Edition. Crown octavo; original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 47 pp, title page printed in black with a pictorial design in brown. Issued in an edition of only 200 copies signed by the author. Designed..... More