London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited. n.d. [1897]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First separate edition. Octavo, original gray cloth elaborately decorated in an arts & crafts style in green and brown on front & rear covers. 52 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Moderate..... 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
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 255 pp. + 2pp. ads. Half-cloth, marbled boards, spine and corners reddish-brown cloth, spine lettered in black. Tan end papers. Endpapers neatly renewed with matching paper, light shelf wear, a very good copy. Dedicated to H. Rider..... More
London: Leslie Frewin, 1975. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First Edition of this collection. Octavo, original black boards titled in gilt on spine panel. 256 pp. Nine full-page black & white illustrations by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor on text paper throughout and included in the pagination.Upper corners just slightly rolled, a fine..... More
London: Peter Owen. 1987. Later Edition. Hardcover. Later Edition. This text was first published by Peter Owen in 1955. Octavo, original black boards titled in silver on spine panel. 222 pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, minor tanning to spine panel. ¶ Supernatural stories. Collects six..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company. 1906. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, colour pictorial paper label on front panel. 89 pp + [8] pp ads at rear. Cover illustration, frontispiece, 3 inserted full-page plates, decorated preliminary leaves and head-..... More
No Place [Olympia, WA]: Pegana Press, 2015. First Printing of This Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this New Edition, the first edition to bear illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk. Octavo. Hand-printed with hand-set Goudy and Civilite types on a Vandercook SP 15 press on Hanhnemuhle and Canson papers; handbound in..... More
London: Cecil Palmer, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original brown cloth, printed paper title label on spine panel. 240 pp. Light foxing to page edges, upper edges dusty, a very good, bright copy in the original colour pictorial dust jacket, a little chipped and wor at the edges, small 1/4-inch..... More
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, Eldridge Court. 1901. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled and decorated in white on front panel, titled in white on spine, publisher's device in white on rear panel. BAL 13501, Binding "A", Intermediate printing (between first and second, which, logically..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1899. Re-Issue. Hardcover. Revised edition. Octavo, original green cloth stamped in darker green and gold on spine and front panel. 249 pp, delicate engraved frontispiece plate with tissue guard. Tiny bumps, hint of tanning to spine panel. Neat contemporary bookplate on front paste-down. A fine..... More
New York: Liveright, Inc, Publishers, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth, designed and lettered in gold. [296]pp. Remains of Sactramento Library label on front fly, some edge wear; a bright, very good copy. In a professionally made colour facsimile dust jacket. ¶ Lost race..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled and decorated in gold on spine and front panel. Frontispiece by Joseph Clement Coll. The second of two printings dated 1919 on the title page, with "PUTNAM" at base of spine in capital letters..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1912. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth titled in gilt. 246 pp. Bookplate on front endpaper, page edges dusty, spine panel a bit cocked; a very good copy. ¶ Collection of short stories, including 'An Enchanted Place', 'The Magic Pool', 'The..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. [1932]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth stamped in yellow. 303 pp. Ink name on front endpaper, corners slightly bumped; very good copy. ¶ Fantastic adventures in a prehistoric land, identified as Atlantis. Airship castaways arrive here as a result of..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Company. 1904. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Small octavo, original blue pictorial cloth designed in black & white, lettered in white (the primary binding; a secondary binding of plain light blue cloth exists). 258 pp. Frontispiece in color, and 5 black and white illustrations..... More
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Boston: Eastern Publishing Company, . [1902]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original red cloth stamped in silver and black. 285 pp. Covers dust soiled, spine a bit dull, minor scuffs; a very good copy. ¶ A group of millionaires construct a 25-acre artificial island on pillars off the coast..... More
Boston: Eastern Publishing Company. [1902]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth stamped in silver and black. 285 pp. Light rubbing to cloth at tips, bookplate of fantasy book collector William Harry Hopkins on inner front cover, a near fine copy. ¶ A group of millionaires..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., No Date [1933]. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, later issue. Octavo, original orange cloth titled in black. [288] pp, 64 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear, dated Autumn, 1934. The first issue bears an Autumn, 1933 catalogue. Spine panel faded to tan, and some mild..... More
Tacoma, Washington: The Swan Press. 1979. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wraps. Octavo, original wrappers (a chapbook). 575 numbered copies printed, this copy with a personal signed inscription by the author on the first leaf. 16 pp. A fine copy. ¶ "A Lost Tale of the Werewolf Clan" More
Tacoma, Washington: The Swan Press, 1979. First Edition, First Impression. Original wraps. Octavo, original wrappers (a chapbook). 575 numbered copies printed. 19 pp. This copy with a personal inscription by the author on the first leaf: "To ______, may he never meet The Master. H. Warner Munn". A fine copy..... More
Tacoma, Washington: The Folly Press. 1975. First Edition, First Impression. Original Wraps. Octavo, original wrappers (a chapbook). 250 numbered copies printed. This copy with a personal signed inscription by the author on the first leaf. 20 pp. A fine copy. More
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London: The Strand, 1907. First Appearance in Print. Original Wraps. Octavo, original light blue printed wrappers. Mild spine creases, light chipping to edges of rear cover; a very good copy. Dozens of pages of period ads, plus a separate leaflet for PRINTER'S PIE Magazine is loosely laid in, as issued..... More
London: F.V. White & Co., 1896. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original pictorial green cloth stamped in black on front cover, titled in gilt on spine. 296 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard & title page vignette by Nisbet. Early ink inscription on verso of half-title leaf "Ian..... More