ANCIENT LIGHT.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1987. 1st edition. Octavo, original boards. A fine copy in dust wrapper with a hint of browning to the extremities. The sequel to GOLDEN WITCHBREED. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1987. 1st edition. Octavo, original boards. A fine copy in dust wrapper with a hint of browning to the extremities. The sequel to GOLDEN WITCHBREED. More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1983. 1983. First Edition, First Impression. First edition. Octavo, original boards. A fine copy in dust wrapper, price corner clipped. More
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
Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1974. First Printing of this New Edition. Original wrappers. New Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers (trade paperback format). 296 + 288 pp (Two Vols in One). Mild darkening to spine panel, a few small bumps; a very good, clean copy. ¶ Reprinted from the 1880..... 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
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
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, original red boards titled in gilt on spine. 191 pp. A few small pencil price marks on front endpaper, else fine in a very good, slightly rubbed dust jacket. ¶ Dystopian; a totalitarian world set in a future where..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited. [1954]. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine panel. 256 pp. Foxing to page edges, a very good, bright copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. ¶ Allegorical fantasy. Young Art and Old Hector fall into a pool and drown. They..... More
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
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920. New Impression. Octavo, original light green cloth, front panel stamped in green and red on spine and front panel. 324 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard, title page vignette plus 23 inserted plates with illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen inserted throughout the text. Very slight mottling..... More
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, Publishers. [1906]. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial brown cloth stamped in black & brown, spine panel lettered in black. 310 pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard and five additional full-page black & white plates by Grunwald. Small bookseller's ticket on rear endpaper (Paul Elder & Company..... More
Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1974. First Printing of this New Edition. Trade Paperback. New Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers (trade paperback format). 346 pp. Some mild cover creases, a near fine copy. ¶ A prophetic, dystopian work which foreshadows th rise of Nazi Germany. "The City of Endless Night"..... 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
London: Tom Stacey, 1972. First Complete British Edition. Octavo, original grey boards titled in silver on spine panel. 241 pp + [2] pp publisher's ads at rear. Minor bumps to edges of boards, top edge dusty, a very good copy in the original pictorial dust jacket, somewhat toned on the..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1870]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth over beveled boards, titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel, gray coated endpapers. 156 pp + 1 leaf of ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard..... More
[Don Mills, Ontario]: Maxwell Macmillan Canada. [1994]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. 214 pp. This copy is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. The author's first book. This book was issued in two states: paperbound, in pictorial wrappers (as here) and a special hardcover..... More
[Don Mills, Ontario]: Maxwell Macmillan Canada. [1994]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original red boards titled in yellow on spine panel. 214 pp. SHORT SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title leaf: "To Sarah / Best Wishes / Matt Hughes". A fine copy in a fine dust jacket..... More
Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, [2022]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth lettered in silver on spine panel, black endpapers. 399 pp., portraits throughout. Issued in an edition limited to 300 numbered copies, this being copy No. 134. (the limitation leaf states 400 copies, 100 of these did..... 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
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1994. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth lettered in gold on spine panel, dark grey endpapers. 318 pp, Dust jacket and Interior illustrations by J.K. Potter. 3496 copies printed. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ¶ Collects 10 stories. The author's..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 41 & 43 Maddox Street, Bond Street W., 1912. First Edition, Sixth Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original tan rough buckram cloth titled in black and ruled in red on spine and front panel. 270 pp. + 16 pp publisher's catalogue at rear, dated Spring, 1912. Frontispiece with tissue..... 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
West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 2004. Third Printing. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers (trade paperback format). 708 pp., Notes, Index. Very tiny bump to one corner, a fine copy, without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ Originally published In 1996, S. T. Joshi's H. P. LOVECRAFT: A LIFE was published to great..... 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: A Signet Book / New American Library, 1985. First Paperback Edition (& 1st printing). Original Pictorial Wrappers. Octavo, original embossed pictorial wrappers (trade paperback format). Issued as Signet 451-XE211 (Canada $9.95 - U.S. $8.95). First printing, with "First Signet Edition April 1985 / 1 2 3 4 5..... More