Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. 325 pp, Notes, Bibliography, Index. With Illustrations, Tables, Figures and a Map. A volume in the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Series. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. Note: This title is In Print..... More
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. 277 pp, Notes, Bibliography, Index. A volume in the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Series. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. Note: This title is In Print for $139.99 US. ¶ Investigating the impact..... More
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. 255 pp, Notes, Bibliography, Index. A volume in the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Series. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. Note: This title is In Print for $149.99 US. ¶ The first comprehensive..... More
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. 261 pp, Index, black & white illustrations. A volume in the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Series. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. Note: This title is for $109.99 US. ¶ This volume investigates..... More
London: Longman's, Green and Co., 1896. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, two volumes. Original blue-gray boards with linen shelf backs, printed paper labels on spine panels, all edges untrimmed, double flyleaves at front and rear of each volume. 378 + 279 pp. Printed by C. Whittingham & Co. at..... More
London: Faber & Faber Limited. 1930. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to spine, small device in gilt on front panel. [332] pp., decorated throughout with lovely fine wood engravings by Rivers. Minor rubbing to covers, a nearly fine copy. ¶ Collects..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [1926]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original brown gilt-decorated boards, brown buckram spine titled in gilt. [358] pp. Minor browning to endpapers, one upper corner slightly bruised & rolled; a very good, bright copy. ¶ Short story collection. Collects nine stories including..... More
London: Arco Publications. 1963. First Edition in English. Octavo, original dark brown (looks black) cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel. 190 pp. Slightly knocked at head of spine, but still a fine copy in a near fine fine dust jacket, small internal stain to verso at spine head, minor..... More
Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre, 23-33, Passage Choiseul. 1885-1926. 12mo, 20 volumes, bound in contemporary qurarter-calf over marbled paper boards, spines with 5 raised bands and elaborately decorated gilt within the compartments, lettering in gilt, gilt rules on front & rear panels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Fine engraved portrait with..... More
London: Printed For Longman, Huest, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row. 1805. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small 12mo; bound in contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, leather title label on spine lettered in gilt. 203 pp., binders blank & half title precede title leaf. Small heraldic device blindstamped to upper..... More
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London: Various Publishers, 1886. First Editions of Both Items. Octavo, bound in plain red cloth, front panel lettered in gilt, spine panel ruled in gilt and lettered simply "The Christmas Number" in gilt. 100 + 127 pp. Bound with the colour front wrapper for the London Society Christmas Number present;..... More
London: The Detective Magazine, 1923. First Printing. Large octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Single issue of this fiction magazine. Paginated pp 201-300. Dampstain affecting the top corner and the top of the page edges and front cover. Some rubbing to front panel, wear and fraying near top of spintop 1-inch of..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company. [1927]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original range cloth stamped in black. 314 pp. Minor dust soiling, a clean very good copy. The British edition was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1926. From the collection of John Ruyle. ¶ Lost..... More
Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2022. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, original black cloth stamped in metallic red and green, pictorial endpapers, red silk bookmarker bound in, top page edges stained red. 333 pp, Illustrated throughout. Issued in an edition of 500 numbered copies, this being copy No. 310, signed..... More
Boulder, Colorado: The Aspen Press, 1976. First American Edition. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, stapled at spine. 43 pp., frontispiece portrait. 500 copies printed. A fine copy in wrappers. ¶ Originally published by James Hogg, London, 1888. Queen's Quorum No. 13, a melodramatic Victorian tale of theft and attempted murder. The..... More
Toronto: McLeod & Allen, Publishers, [1912]. First Canadian Edition. Octavo, original decorated dark green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind. [295] pp, frontispiece with tissue guard and four additional plates with artwork by Bracker (Should be 6 plates total, our copy has 5 plates). This Canadian..... More
Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press, 2007. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original brick-red cloth, spine lettered in gold. 375 pp. Dust jacket artwork byJason Van Hollander. 400 copies printed. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine is our highest grade; as new. ¶ Anthology of 30 strange &..... More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. 1935. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth stamped in red. 226 pp., frontispiece map, illustrations. Previous owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper, a very good copy, clean and sound. ¶ Purported to be written from a previously undiscovered manuscript of..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. [1931]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. 319 pp. Blue cloth lettered in black on spine & front panel. Ink name on front free endpaper; spine panel tanned (lettering still bright). A clean very good copy. ¶ Lost Race novel. Mayans & Atlantis. The "House of..... More
London: Jarrolds Publishers Limited, 34 Paternoster Row, E.C.4, No Date [circa 1931]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in black; pictorial design in black on spine panel. 234 pp., colour frontispiece (Biplane and Airship!). Front free endpaper lacking; some scattered foxing. A very good..... More
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1839. Second Edition. Octavo, Three Volumes. Original reddish-brown horizontally-ribbed cloth, front & rear covers with an arabesque design stamped in blind, spine panel lettered OLIVER / TWIST / [short rule] / BOZ / VOL I. [II. III] / LONDON / BENTLEY along with four..... 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
London: Longman's, Green, & Co., 1899. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth blocked in black & titled in gilt on spine & front panel, black coated endpapers, top edges gilt. 308 pp. Frontispiece by William Reader plus eleven additional full-page black & white plates, all in..... More
London, New York, and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. No Date [1897]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial blue bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, pictorial paper inlay on front panel. 293 pp + 16 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Frontispiece plus seven additional..... More
New York: Continental Publishing Co., 1900. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial gray cloth stamped in black, orange and gold with a particularly striking design (of 'The Royal Enchantress' herself) on front panel, the spine with a design of a thurible and flames in black, red and gold..... More