New York: The Vanguard Press. [1944]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original tan cloth titled in black on spine panel. 238 pp. Small bookseller label to rear paste-down, otherwise a sharp clean copy, fine in the original pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped and a faint bit of wear..... 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
Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press. 1998. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in dark blue linson boards, spine lettering gilt, dark blue endpapers, head-and tail-bands. 257 pp. Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Collects seventeen stories, being the entire..... More
Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press. 2001. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Bound in grey linson boards, spine lettering gilt, front panel lettering and pictorial panel in dark red, dark red endpapers, head-and tail-bands, dark red satin bookmark. Pictorial title page in imitation of the Keynotes Series. 265 pp. Issued in..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1891. First American edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled and decorated in red, brown and gold on spine and front panel, green coated endpapers. 443 pp + [12] pp publisher's ads at rear. Tiny abrasion to front free endpaper, spine a trifle darkened and..... More
Seattle: Midnight House. 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. First edition of this collection, limited to 460 numbered copies, 450 of which are for sale. Octavo, original cloth, dust wrapper. Fine in dust wrapper. More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Original Wraps. The first appearance in print of this essay on M.R. James, apparantly uncollected. It does not appear in her one collection of tales, The Fellow Travellers and Other Stories (Ash-Tree Press, Ashcroft, British Columbia, 1998). Tiny stains and..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. 1978. First Printing. Original Wraps. The first appearance in print of this short story, later included in The Fellow Travellers and Other Stories, Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft, British Columbia), 1998. A short ghost story based on the notes of M.R. James, one of the stories which..... More
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London: George Newnes, Limited. 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The first appearance in print of this poem by Hodgson, contained in a bound volume of THE GRAND MAGAZINE. Octavo, original red cloth, gilt titles and vignettes on spine & front panel. 594 pp. Cloth a bit chaffed and worn..... More
Buffalo: Breed, Butler & Co., 1860. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original textured brown blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Tan end papers. 354 pp. + [6] pp. ads. Light chipping to spine ends; a very good copy. From the Stuart Teitler collection of Lost Race Fiction..... More
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher. 1976. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Quarto, original blue cloth, silver titles to spine. 223 pp. 2,600 copies printed.Seven full-page colour plates by Pailthorpe. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, fine and with no wear or tear but..... More
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher. 1975. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Quarto, original gray boards with burgundy cloth spine titled in gold. 3,500 copies printed. Two-page title spread & numerous line drawings in the text, including head- and tail-pieces and full page plates, plus 4 full-page..... More
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher. 1975. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Quarto, original gray boards with burgundy cloth spine titled in gold. 3,100 copies printed. Tipped-in colour frontispiece and eight additional colour plates by Robertson in the text. Issued as a volume in The Deluxe Grant..... More
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher. 1975. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Quarto, original gray boards with burgundy cloth spine titled in gold. 3,100 copies printed. Black & white frontispiece and several other full-page black & white plates in the text, plus four full-page tipped-in colour plates..... More
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1903. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel. 219 pp + [4] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece and three additional full-page plates. Corners a touch briuised; a very good, bright..... More
Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Company. [1883]. Early Edition. Hardcover. Early American edition, the first printing is dated 1893 on the title page. 432 pp. red cloth designed and lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, top edges gilt. Bookplate on inner front cover, and a small..... More
New York: Lovell, Gestefeld & Company. [1892]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American (and the first one-volume) edition. 453 pp. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover designed and lettered in black and light brown. The British edition was published by Griffith, Farran in three volumes in 1892. Ink..... 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
New York: Cortlandt Publishing Co., 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. First Cortlandt Edition. [314]pp. Red cloth lettered in gilt, design of rifle in black on front cover. Color frontispiece. Spine mildly tanned, a bright copy. Smith J-177, citing the LC copy, which had no publisher noted, and ran to 307p.; and..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press. 1942. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original speckled gray cloth titled in red on spine & front panel, top edges stained red. 283 pp. Front free endpaper neatly removed; some minor browning to spine panel, some minor spots to top page edges..... More
London: Geoffrey Bles, [1933]. First Edition in English. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in black on spine and front cover. 317 pp. Foxing to endpapers; inner hinges at both front & rear reinforced with archival paper tape; wear to cloth at spine tips, spine panel faded; a good to very..... More
New York: Avalon Books / Thomas Bouregy and Company, Inc., [1962]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. 222 pp. Grey cloth, spine lettered in red. Fine in nice dust wrapper, the edges slightly marred from the original 'Plasti-Kleer' dust wrapper 'protector' in which these Avalon books were issued. ¶..... More
New York: DAW Books / The New American Library of Canada Limited, [1972]. Paperback. 1st edition, Canadian issue. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (a paperback original). Issued as DAW Books #12 (95¢]. This is the Canadian issue, with the addition of The New American Library of Canada as publisher on the..... More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. No Date [1898]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial tan cloth, titled and decorated in green, brown, white and gold. 224 pp + 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard, two additional plates in the text. Browning..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1919. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth lettered in black on spine & front cover, small devices & rules in blind on spine and front cover. Color frontispiece by George W. Gage. Inner rear hinge neatly repaired, yellow cloth a...... More