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 about FANTASTIC ADVENTURES Magazine, Vol 7, No 4, October, 1945 issue
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 about FANTASTIC NOVELS Magazine Vol 2, No 3, September, 1948 issue
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 about THE SCARLET FRINGE. Illustrated by Carlos Sanchez M
London: T. Nelson and Sons. 1894. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth stamped in black & gold, floral endpapers. 185 pp + [6] pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Double-page frontispiece and illustrated title page printed on glossy paper, tissue guard. Small hole to the... More about THE WONDERFUL CITY
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 about SINTRAM AND HIS COMPANIONS. And UNDINE. By De La Motte Fouque, With Introduction by Charlotte M....
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 about MR. HAWKINS' HUMOROUS ADVENTURES
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 about THE SORCERESS OF ROME. Pictures by the Kinneys. Decorations by P. Verburg
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 about THE VOICE OF DASHIN. A Romance of Wild Mountains
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 about MIRROR OF DREAMS
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 about THE MAN IN THE MIRROR. A Biographical Reflection
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1922. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled and blocked pictorially in darker green. 312 pp + [8] pp ads at rear. Old heraldic bookplate on front endpaper [Ex Libris V.Y. Smart, B.A., Montreal, Que]. Cloth a trifle soiled, a very... More about THE GLAND STEALERS
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 about THE GOLDEN CENTIPEDE
London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press. No Date [circa 1930]. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued in 1913. Octavo, original pictorial boards. 327 pp. Colour frontispiece. Issued as a volume in "The New Ensign Series". Binding rubbed, with slight wear at edges and a small chip at spine head. ¶ Boy's... More about THE PIRATE AEROPLANE
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 about IN SEARCH OF THE OKAPI. A Story of Adventure in Central Africa. Illustrated by William Rainey, R.I
London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1921. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled and ruled in gold on spine, ruled in blind on upper & lower covers. 239 pp. Index. Mild wear to cloth at tips, some slight fading to spine panel; a very good... More about THE TALE OF TERROR. A Study of the Gothic Romance
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers. [1940]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original green cloth, spine titled and blocked in gilt and black. 396 pp. Top edge dusty, boards a bit darkened at edges, a very good copy in a nice example of the scarce colour pictorial... More about LIFE AS CAROLA
New York: Arno Press. 1976. Reprint of the London edition published by T. Werner Laurie in 1906. Octavo, original purple cloth titled in silver. Issued as a volume in the Arno Press Supernatural and Occult Fiction collection, edited by R. Reginald and Douglas Menville. A fine copy without dust wrapper... More about THE MUMMY AND MISS NITOCRIS. A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company. [1911]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original grey-blue cloth titled in gilt on spine & front panel. 228 pp, Frontispiece. Review copy, with the publisher's revew slip affixed to the front free endpaper. Spotting at lower edges of front & rear... More about THE VENTURE. A Story of the Shadow World
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. [295] pp. Light foxing to upper edges, a very good to near fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket that shows just a few small stains. ¶ Fantasy novel set in Scotland, a.... More about THE WELL AT THE WORLD'S END
New York: Frank F. Lovell & Company, 150 Worth Street. 1891. Early American Edition. Original Wraps. Early American Edition. Octavo, original decorated wrappers. 290 pp. Period ad for Walter Baker & Co's Breakfast Cocoa on rear wrapper. Issued as Vol. 490 in Lovell's Household Library, December 1, 1891. Stamp on... More about BEATRICE
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920. Early Edition. Hardcover. New Impression. Octavo, original blue clothblocked decoratively in red on front panel, titled in gilt on spine. 347 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 14 additional black & white plates throughout the text, all by Amy Sawyer. Neat bookplate on front... More about HEART OF THE WORLD
New York: Frank F. Lovell Company. (1908). First American Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered and with a design of a woman's head in gilt. 342 pp. Spine cocked, some shelf wear & rubbing, inner rear hinge cracking. A very... More about THE LADY OF THE HEAVENS
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1917. Early Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, fourth impression. 346 pp. Red cloth. Title in blind on front cover, spine designed in gilt. Old dampstain to lower corner of front cover, but a bright, clean copy in a slightly chipped pictorial dust jacket, with... More about MARIE. An Episode in the Life of the late Allan Quatermain
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Frst American Edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt on spine, titled and decorated in black on front cover. 308 pp. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard and two additional full page black & white plates by A.C. Michael... More about MORNING STAR. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original bluish-green cloth over beveled boards., gilt tiles on spine & front panel. 343 pp + 24 page publisher's catalogue, dated 9/94, bound in at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 15 additional full-page illustrations by... More about THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST