A Special Catalogue Celebrating Our 40th Year in Business 1983 - 2003
London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1888. First British Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth designed with an image of a sea monster holding the cylinder in its jaws in black, green and copper on the front panel, front panel lettered in copper, spine panel lettered in gold and with..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1998. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth lettered in gold on spine panel. 2,500 copies printed. 296 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with wrap-around full colour artwork by Tony Patrick. ¶ The first Posthumous collection of Bloch's..... More
Sauk City: Arkham House, Publishers. 1960. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth titled in gold on spine panel. 2,060 copies printed. 233 pp. A fine copy in a very good or better dust wrapper, light stains to rear panel, minor rubbing. ¶ Collection of 15 horror tales..... More
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company. (1895) (i.e., circa 1906). Later printing. Hardcover. Later printing of the American edition, issued circa 1906. Octavo, original purple cloth, titles in white, design of a robed figure in gray & white on front panel. Near fine copy. ¶ Anthology of weird stories. Contains..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, No Date [1911]. First Edition. Quarto, original brown cloth with elaborate gold decorations and lettering on spine and front panel, decorated endpapers. 250 pp. Illustrated with 28 magnificent tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, each page throughout with the text within frames and delicate head..... More
London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. Second Edition; i.e., First Trade Edition. "Second edition", being the First Trade edition, issued in March, 1922, one month after the Signed & Limited Large Paper Issue in February, 1922. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine. 322..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1917. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo. Publisher's original maroon cloth with the title and "Festina Lente" coat of arms in gold on the front cover, spine panel lettered in gold. 184 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Dunsany with tissue guard and fifteen additional black &..... More
London: George Allen & Sons. 1910. First Edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. Octavo, original blue-gray cloth titled in gold on spine & front panel, top edge gilt, fore-and bottom edges trimmed. 252 pp, with nine stunning full page black & white plates by Sime throughout the text. Of the two..... More
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., Warwick House, Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, E.C., n.d., [circa 1878]. Early Reprint of the First English Edition. Small octavo, original decorated brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, "M" in "Man" on front cover printed in..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. 1868. A New Edition. Small octavo, original brownish-red cloth stamped in gold on spine and front panel, front & rear panels bordered in blindcoated yellow endpapers. pp. [i] - vi, 1-213 [214 printer's imprint]. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional full-page..... More
London: Chapman & Hall. 1907. First Edition. Octavo, bright red cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front panel. All edges trimmed. 312 pp. Some light foxing to page edges, a spot of wear to the cloth at extreme lower right-hand corner of the front. In all a magnificent copy..... 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: Holden & Hardingham. [1921]. Second Edition. Hardcover. Reprint, first issued by Chapman & Hall in 1908. Small octavo, original pale tannish green boards lettered in black on spine panel. [252] pp. Cheap paper lightly browned, as usual; a very good clean copy in the rare pictorial dust jacket which..... More
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine panel. Edited and with a Critical Biography by Sam Moskowitz. Illustrated by Stephen Fabian. 304 pp., frontispiece, chapter vignettes, and seven full-page black & white plates by Fabian (included..... More
London: Richard Bentley. 1855. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. Octavo, original green pebble-grained cloth decorated in blind on front & rear covers, titles and decorations in gilt on spines. [339] + 288 + 364 pp. Engraved ornamental titlepages (that of Vol. three printed in red & black), 18 plates by..... More
No Place [Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK]: No Publisher [J. Lane & L. Westwood, George Dixon School], No Date [1979]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled at spine. 52 pp, inc. covers. Staples slightly rusted; a very good copy. Hand-made and self-published; a rare book. ¶ A weird..... More
London: Downey & Co., No Date [1895]. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, original pictorial terra-cotta cloth repeating the title page design in gilt and black on front panel, spine panel lettered in gilt, rear panel with publisher's device in blind. 358 pp + [2] pp ads at rear. Half-tone frontispiece..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1906. First Edition. Edition de Luxe. Large quarto, bound in the original full white vellum with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Endpaper with map of Kensington Gardens, illustrated title page, and 50 colour plates mounted onto brown art paper and protected by..... More
Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1936. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original cloth-backed patterned boards. 111 pp, Colour frontispiece and black & white plates, Index. Issued in an edition limited to 500 hand-numbered numbered copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. This is co-author Sarah Briggs Latimore's copy, copy #1, with..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1926]. First Rackham Edition. Large octavo, original decorated grey cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front panel. 185 pp., Frontispiece and 19 additional full-page tipped-in colour plates, decorated title page and numerous black & white drawings in the text, plus binding design, all by Rackham..... More
London: Martin Secker, Number Five John Street, Adelphi, [1911]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original brown cloth with printed paper title label on spine panel. 168 pp. Light scattered foxing, contemporary ink name on front free endpaper, cloth lightly bumped & with slight wear at edges, spine label..... More