1953. ORIGINAL BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF A PORTRAIT PAINTING OF LORD DUNSANY by Serge Ivanoff, San Francisco 1953. On one verso is inscribed in pen in the hand of ____ "The Lord Dunsany------- painted in the Paget-Fredericks house by Serge Ivanoff — noted Russian artist. Lord Dunsany - Famous..... More
London: Elkin Mathews. 1920. Third Edition. Third edition. Octavo. Quarter linen, paper boards, titles stamped in black on front cover and spine. 187 pages. Six illustrations by Sidney H. Sime. Boards rubbed at edges and corners, soiled and dampstained, rectangular stains on rear board, spine toned, browning to endpapers, partially..... More
Boston: John W. Luce and Company. 1913. First American Edition. First American Edition. Quarto. Quarter green cloth over tan paper boards, gilt titles to spine and front board with inlaid illustration by Sime. 179 pages. Ten illustrations by Sidney H. Sime. Boards lightly soiled & toned, very slight bending to..... More
London: William Heinemann. 1906. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo. Full green paper boards, gilt title to spine and front board with inlaid illustration by Sime. A rare binding variant, likely a second issue binding. 179 pages. Ten illustrations by Sidney H. Sime. Boards lightly scuffed, small corner bumps..... More
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New York: Story Magazine, Inc., 1936. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original printed wrappers. 112 pp, the Dunsany story appears on pages 50-62. Small hole to rear cover, spine a trifle dull, a clean, very good copy. ¶ The second magazine appearance of this story, it first appeared in TIME..... More
London: George Allen & Sons. 1910. 1910. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth titled in gold on spine & front panel, top edge gilt, fore-and bottom edges trimmed. Of the two states of the text, this is the first state (State A), with integral title leaf and..... More
London: Samson Low, Marston & Company Limited. 1895. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original dark red straight-ribbed cloth over beveled boards titled in gilt and ruled in blind on spine & front panel, black coated endpapers. 319 pp, 8 full-page black & white plates, Index at rear. Heraldic bookplate..... More
New York: William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, 11 Murray Street, 1886. First Edition in English. Hardcover. Small octavo, original decorated red boards titled and designed in black. 112 pp. Light rubbing to cloth, a very good clean copy. ¶ Historical novel with fantasy elements; the main character is Olbasanus, a sorceror..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, Publishers. [1914]. Early Printing. Hardcover. Second printing, February, 1914. Thick octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers. Colour frontispiece plus 3 additional black & white plates inserted throughout the text, all by P.J. Monaghan. 672 pp. Spine panel..... More
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1955. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine panel - the first binding. 253pp. 1,547 copies were issued in this binding. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper which shows some very slight rubbing. More
Chicago: Frank A. Munsey Company. 1941. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original colour pictorial wrappers. Paper off-white. Ink name "Floyd Peill" on first leaf. Light edge-tears, old cellotape on spine. Fantastic cover (and some interior) artwork by Virgil Finlay for A. Merritt's THE METAL MONSTER. More
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1951. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original colour pictorial wrappers. Off White Paper. Faint cover creases, small edgetears, a very good to near fine copy. Front cover artwork by Ed Valigursky for the title story THE MAN WHO STOPPED AT NOTHING by Paul W. Fairman, a...... More
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1951. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Paper off-white. Covers chipped and torn, some old tape stains. Small price in pencil on front panel. A good copy only. Fantastic cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for Robert Bloch's story THE DEAD DON'T DIE. More
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Paper off-white. Light edge tears and tiny chips, small bit of pencil writing on title page, very good. Front cover artwork by J. Allen St. John for JONGOR OF THE LOST LAND by Robert Moore Williams. More
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1942. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original colour pictorial wrappers. Paper slightly toned at edges. Light spine fade, tiny edge tears; a sound, very good copy. Front cover artwork by J. Allen St. John for THE EAGLE MAN by Don Wilcox, rear cover artwork by Frank..... More
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1945. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original colour pictorial wrappers. Paper slightly toned at edges. Light spine fade, tiny edge tears and chips, small chip from upper left corner of front cover; a sound, very good copy. Front cover artwork by J. Allen St. John for..... More
Chicago: New Publications, 1948. First Printing. Original Wraps. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Paper off-white. Small edge-tears & creases, one tiny hole, and a closed tear on the front panel.Great front-cover artwork by Lawrence for THE CONQUEST OF THE MOON POOL by A. Merritt; interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay. More
New York, London & Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. 236 pp. Green pictorial cloth designed in black. Pictorial end papers. Frontispiece & 5 illustrations. A clean very good copy in a slightly chipped pictorial dust jacket, with wrap-around design by Carlos Sanchez..... More
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 1925. Fourth Printing of this Edition. Hardcover. Fourth Printing of this New Edition, originally issued in 1896. Octavo, original pictorial blue clothstamped in black and gold. 279 pp + [19] pp illustrated catalogue of Children's Books bound in at rear. Ink name on..... More
New York: Dodge Publishing Company. [1904]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original maroon cloth spine panel titled in gilt, front panel titled in black & gilt and bordered in black. 323 pp, frontispiece and five additional full-page plates in the text. Stains on rear panel, front panel..... More
Boston: L.C. Page and Company. 1907. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original red pictorial cloth stamped in black, green and gold on front panel, gilt titles on spine, pictorial endpapers. 463+ 4 pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Decorated title page printed in red and black, tipped-in colour..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited. No Date [1928]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth lettered in black on spine & front panel. 319 pp. Blurb from front dust wrapper flap glued to front endpaper; a fairly rough ex-lending library copy with stamps from the Hudson..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine & front panel. [308] pp + [1] pp ads at rear. The correct first printing, with the code (1) at the end of the final leaf of text. Small ink..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Company. 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, from British sheets. Octavo, original green cloth titled and decorated (with a golden centipede) in gilt. 309 pp. The first edition was London, Methuen, 1910. Small stain to bottom edge of the first few leaves, a...... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1904. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original pictorial red cloth decorated in black, brown, red and gold on spine and front panel. 381 pp. Frontispiece and seven additional black & white plates. The correct first printing, with the 1904 date on the..... More