Westminster: Archibald Constable, 1897. First Edition. Original Cloth. First edition, the third or coeval issue. Octavo, original yellow cloth titled and bordered in red. 390 pp. + [1] + 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated 1898 bound in at rear. Printed on thinner paper stock, with the Shoulder of Shasta advertisement... More about DRACULA
Buckinghamshire, UK: Hague & Gill, 1948. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. Small octavo, bound in half green morocco over green cloth boards, gilt titles on spine, hand-marbled endpapers. 76 pp. Five wood-engravings by Joan Hassall, two of which are full-page. Hand-made paper. With the bookplate "Ex Libris venerabilis conventus Fratvm B.V.M.... More about LANCELOT AND ELAINE,; Being the Eighth to Twentieth Chapters of the Eighteenth Book of Sir Thomas...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. First Edition. Octavo, original gray cloth titled in black on spine & front panel. 212 pp + [8] pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Front free endpaper neatly replaced (although we can see a bit of glue tracing on the margin of the verso). Lower... More about ASYLUM PIECE And Other Stories
London: Printed and Published by G. Martin, 6, Great St. Thomas Apostle, No Date [1825?]. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. Small octavo, publisher's original half-leather over marbled paper boards, the spine with small gilt rules. 36 pp + [2] pp publisher's ads at rear; with five hand-coloured plates, including a large... More about Chapbook: THE HISTORY OF BLUE BEARD AND FATIMA.; Embellished with Handsome Copper-Plate Engravings
London: Macmillan & Co., 1893. First Edition with These Illustrations. Hardcover. Tall 8vo., original green cloth with famous ornate gilt-stamped design on both covers, all edges gilt. 63 pp. Title page with tissue guard, plus 12 exemplary wood-engraved full-page illustrations by Housman as well as illustrations in the text on..... More about GOBLIN MARKET.; Illustrated by Laurence Housman
No Place: Xoanon Publishing. 2008. Second Edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to spine. 700 numbered copies were printed. This copy is one of a very few that were un-numbered and out-of series, marked "X" on the colophon leaf. A fine copy without dust wrapper, as issued. ¶ Issued... More about QUTUB. Also Called The Point. Written and Illustrated by Andrew D. Chumbley. Alogos Dhu'l-Qarnen....
London: Printed by William Pearson, for Benjamin Sprint at the Bell in Little-Britain, 1730. Nineteenth Edition, Corrected. Leather. Small octavo, old blind-tooled calf, rebacked, morocco labels. 170 pp, engraved frontispiece portrait, engravings of the Bass-Viol and the Treble-Violin, much printed music, with [2 pp] [one leaf] of adverts "BOOKS Printed... More about AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SKILL OF MUSICK:; In Three Books: I. The Grounds and Principles of Musick,...
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran [Arkham House]. 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, 996 copies printed. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. A few small marks to the cloth; a very good, clean, attractive copy in dust jacket. The jacket is slightly worn and... More about THREE PROBLEMS FOR SOLAR PONS
Bern: Verlag der Dalp'ichen Buchhandlung [R. Schmid]. 1881. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. First edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 410 pp. Text in German and printed in German Fraktur (Gothic Blackletter) throughout. Wear to wrappers, but complete; some splits to spine panel, old ownership name on title page. Overall... More about AUS DEM SCHWEIZERISCHEM VOLKSLEBEN DES XV JAHRHUNDERTS. Der Inquisitionsprozess wider die...
Undated. Typed on one side of one leaf of plain 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper. Titled CARVINGS FOR SALE, the typed portion lists Ten of Smith's Carvings, with descriptions, priced between $15.00 and $25.00. Of note are the sculptures DAGON: "Head, half fish half human, Globular eyes, catfish whiskers, ears... More about CARVINGS FOR SALE. ONE-PAGE TYPED MANUSCRIPT, WITH A LONG MANUSCRIPT NOTE, SIGNED
Monterey, CA: Wynn Bullock Studios, 1958. Original. PORTRAIT OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH, 1958. Gelatin silver print. 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches. Unsigned but Studio Stamp on Verso "Wynn Bullock 155 Mar Vista Dr. Monterey, Calif." A crisp image of Smith in his latter days, sitting outside in his corduroy jacket with... More about PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH, Gelatin Silver Print, by Wynn Bullock, circa 1958
Undated, but circa 1925-1929. Typed on three sheets of plain 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper. Unsigned, but perhaps this is because the piece is a translation of FEMMES DAMNEÉS: DELPHINE ET HIPPOLYTE from Charles Baudelaire's FLEURS DU MAL [1857]. Three Pages, approximately 900 words, 5 corrections by hand. Paper browned... More about FEMMES DAMNEÉS. THREE-PAGE TYPED MANUSCRIPT, WITH CORRECTIONS BY HAND
Privately Printed, Unpublished. Large format comb binding, plastic covers holding card covers (label on front cover) 107pp + (2pp). This is the typed up magical diary of one of the core initiates of the Cultus Sabbati. The original diary was clearly periodically submitted to Andrew Chumbley for review as there... More about MAGICAL RECORD, 12th Nov. 1993 e.v. - 12th August 1994 e.v. Being the Stellar Transvocation of...
London: Jonathan Cape. 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue paper-covered boards embossed on front cover in white, spine titled in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. 312 pp. Previous ownership stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise a very good, bright copy, nearly fine, in the original printed silver... More about BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN
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Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 1998-2000. Early Printings. Hardcover. A beautiful boxed set of early printings of the first three Harry Potter Books. Book One: First edition, sixth impression. Canadian issue, with the Raincoast imprint & "Printed and Bound in Canada by Friesens" on copyright page. 223 pp. Contains two errors... More about HARRY POTTER BOXED SET [comprising] HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE [along with] HARRY...
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1906. Second Impression of the Everyman's Library Edition, dated April, 1906 (the First Edition in the Everyman's Library Series was issued in February, 1906). Octavo, original red cloth, the spine titled and decorated in gilt, decorated endpapers, elaborately decorated 2-page title spread, small vignette at... More about MANSFIELD PARK
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1906. Second Impression of the Everyman's Library Edition, dated March, 1906 (the First Edition in the Everyman's Library Series was issued in February, 1906). Octavo, original red cloth, the spine titled and decorated in gilt, decorated endpapers, elaborately decorated 2-page title spread, small vignette at... More about SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
California: Three Hands Press. 2013. First Edition, First Printing, Special Reserve Edition. Leather Bound. Octavo. Bound in full alum-tawed calf stamped in 24-caret gold on front cover, marbled endpapers. The Private Reserve edition, limited to just 11 hand-numbered copies for private distribution, this being copy No. 11. 172 pp, with... More about THE AFFLICTED MIRROR. A Study of Ordeals and the Making of Compacts. With Illustrations by...
UK: Hell Fire Club, 2018. Special Vellum Edition. Full Vellum. Quarto. A Special Edition, one of only 22 copies, each one designed to one of the Trumps of the Major Arcana; this is Copy for Atu II, THE PRIESTESS. 287 pp. Bound in full English calf vellum, top edge gilt... More about THE BOOK OF THOTH. A Short Essay on the Tarot of the Egyptians, Being The Equinox Volume III No....
United Kingdom: Atramentous Press, 2018. First Edition. Leather. Octavo. The Deluxe Edition, specially bound in full blue leather elaborately decorated in gold and blackon the upper and lower covers, spine panel titled & decorated in gold, special Strathmore Grandee endpapers, gilt page edges, heavy cream paper with book mark ribbon... More about WELSH WITCHES: Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic from 16th- and 17th-century Wales. Deluxe Edition
United Kingdom: Atramentous Press, 2018. First Edition. Leather. Octavo. The Deluxe Edition, specially bound in full green leather elaborately decorated in gold on the upper and lower covers and spine, hand-marbled endpapers, gilt page edges, heavy cream paper with book mark ribbon. Housed in a folding solander case with a.... More about STANDING AT THE CROSSROADS. Dialectics of the Witching-Other. Illustrations by Carolyn...
United Kingdom: Atramentous Press, 2017. First Edition. Leather. Octavo. The Deluxe Edition, specially bound in full burgundy leather elaborately decorated in gold on the upper and lower covers and spine, hand-marbled endpapers and page edges, heavy cream paper with book mark ribbon. Housed in a folding solander case with a.... More about THE WITCHING OTHER. Explorations & Meditations on the Existential Witch. Deluxe Edition
Venice: Francois Santini, 1776. An engraved map, 29 x 20.5 inches (image size: 25 x 18 inches). A clean and attractive copy. Contemporary colouring in outline, and handsome colouring of the cartouche and decorative marginal figures. An early issue of this significant map, first issued in Paris in 1750 [possibly... More about CARTE DES NOUVELLES DECOUVERTES AU NORD DE LA MER DU SUD, Tant a l'Est de la Siberie et du...
No Place: Xoanon Publishing, 2018. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Quarter Leather. Octavo, bound in quarter red goatskin and marbled paper boards, the leather titled in gilt on spine and decorated with a Serpent Device on the front panel. Slipcased. This edition is limited to just 44 hand-numbered copies, this being... More about VIA TORTUOSA: An Exposition on Crooked Path Sorcery. Deluxe Issue
London: Holden & Hardingham, 1921. Second Edition. Quarter Leather. "Cheap" Edition, i.e., the Second Edition; the book was first published by Chapman & Hall in 1908. Octavo, bound in mid 20th-Century quarter purple leather over marbled paper boards, the spine ruled in gilt with leather label & gilt titles. [252]... More about THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND. From the Manuscript, discovered in 1877 by Messrs Tonnison and...