London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., [1943]. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original yellow cloth stamped in red on spine panel. 291 pp, decorated title page printed in blue and black. A very good, bright copy in like dust jacket, price corner intact. An attractive copy. ¶ Reincarnation novel, or what..... More
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., [1945]. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original light gray cloth stamped in red on spine panel. 264 pp, decorated title page printed in red and black. Bookplate on front free endpaper, dated 1945; otherwise a very good / near fine copy in dust jacket that..... More
New York: Arno Press, 1976. Hardcover. 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..... More
London: James Barrie. 1951. First British Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. [288] pp. Spine panel very (very!) slightly leaned, a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, a few small closed tears to the edges and small chips at spine head..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 549 & 551 Broadway. 1873. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel. Brown coated endpapers. 383 pp. Contemporary ink inscription on preliminary black, dated Jan 26, 1874; moderate..... More
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
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
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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
London: Holden & Hardingham. [1920]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Chapman & Hall in 1907. Small octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine panel. 252 pp. Cheap paper browned, as usual. Boards darkened and rubbed, slightly stained, small split along hinge near spine head, edges chaffed..... More
London: Holden & Hardingham. [1920]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Stanley Paul & Co. in 1909. Small octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine panel. [248] pp + [4] pp of ads for other books by Hodgson at rear. Almost no browning to the cheap pulp..... More
London: Holden & Hardingham. [1921]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Chapman & Hall in 1908. Small octavo, original red boards titled in black on spine panel. [252] pp. Cheap paper lightly browned, as usual; ink name on front pastedown, spine panel faded; boards lightly chaffed along front spine..... 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
Sauk City: Arkham House, . 1947. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original black cloth. 3,082 copies printed. Tiny nicks and a spot of wear at spine tips, a near fine copy in dust jacket. ¶ Collects 21 tales, mostly collected from the pages of WEIRD TALES Magazine. The author's first..... More
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1948. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, original green cloth, spine panel blocked in brown and gold, gilt titles, top edges stained red. 765 pp. A few minor and tiny aterstrikes to cloth & top page edges, a very good, tight clean copy in the original..... 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
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
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original black cloth titled in gold on spine panel. 2030 copies printed. 174 pp. A few tiny marks to cloth, slightly bumped at heel of spine panel, a near fine copy in the attractive Richard Taylor dust jacket lightly..... More
London: Simon & Schuster. [1992]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original boards. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, price-clipped. A sharp, crisp copy. ¶ The first in the Anno Dracula series, an alternate history novel using 19th-century English historical settings and personalities, along with characters..... More
Bradford: Caliban. 1998. First Edition Thus. Octavo, original pictorial white cloth stamped with a design of a winged skeleton in black, red, purple and gold, gold titles to spine and front cover, top edges stained purple, marbled endpapers. 97 pp. 250 numbered copies printed, this being copy number 200, signed..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Leather. Rackham's second (and best) edition, revised and largely redrawn from the original 1898 edition. Quarto, bound in full green morocco, the spine with raised bands with titles and decorations in gilt, gilt decorative boards on front & rear..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1920. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original light green cloth titled in darker green on spine & front panel. 311 pp. A bright, clean copy, nearly fine, with only the slightest amount of rubbing to the cloth at the spine..... More
Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses. 1853. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo, Bound in mid-20th Century half paper patterned boards with green cloth spine, gilt titles. 351 pp. Foxing and staining to text block, a few old marks to title page and also the title leaf is slightly..... More
North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2012. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, original red pictorial boards blocked in gilt on upper cover and titled in gilt on spine; red endpapers. 250 pp. 300 copies printed. A few minor scuffs to the jacket else a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket..... More