THE PYRAMID.
London: Faber and Faber. [1967]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. 217 pp. Small bump to one corner else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
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THE SPIRE.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., [1964]. First American Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt titles to spine. 223 pp. Bookplate on inner front cover (University of Nevada Library gift label), a fine copy in dust jacket, price corner intact. From the University of Nevada..... More
THE CURTAIN OF STORM.
New York: The Macmillan Company. 1933. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original black cloth stamped in white. Mild browning to endpapers, a clean, nearly fine copy in the original pictorial dust wrapper which has mild tanning to the spine panel. The price corner is clipped and there..... More
SCOTTISH WITCHES AND WITCH-HUNTERS.
Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover, original pictorial boards. 258 pp, Bibliography of Scottish Witchcraft, Index. A volume in the Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Series. A fine copy without dust jacket, as issued. ¶ This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an..... More
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF TIBETAN LAMAISM.
[New Delhi]: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd. [1978]. First Indian edition. Quarto, original black cloth, spine titled in gold. 131 pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated throughout, mostly in black & white, a few colour plates. A photo reprint of the the 2nd edition, revised, of 1958 (first edition was Columbia University..... More
PREHISTORIC LONDON. Its Mounds and Circles. With Appendices by the Rev. John Griffith.
London: The Covenant Publishing Co., Ltd. 1932. Third edition. Octavo, original green clothtitled in black. 212 pp., Index, 22 illustrations on 21 plates. Very good copy, clean and attractive. Originally published in 1914, the appendices appear here for the first time and include 'The Interpretat ion of Prehistoric Monuments Illustrated..... More
LIFE AS CAROLA.
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
SCARLET FEATHER.
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
WITCHES AND WITCH-HUNTERS. A reprint of A TREATISE ON WITCHCRAFT by Alexander Roberts (1616); THE DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by Mathew Hopkins (1647); & SCOTTISH WITCH TRIALS by J.W. Brodie(-Innes), 1891.; With a Foreword by A.E. Green, Insitute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, Leeds University.
East Ardsley, Yorkshire: S.R. Publishers Ltd., 1971. First Edition. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. (xix) + 80 + 10 + 66 (Three Books plus Foreword, separately paginated). Formerly the copy owned by Edward L. Margetts, M.D., with his ownership name & acquisition information in ink on first leaf plus his pencil..... More
STRANGE ADVENTURES IN TIME. Chosen and Edited by Roger Lancelyn Green. With Colour Frontispiece and Line Drawings by George Adamson.
London & New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo, original orange boards stamped in black & gold. 147 pp. Issued as Number 97 in the publisher's 'Children's Illustrated Classics' series. This is the US issue, with the..... More
BRIGHTON ROCK.
New York: The Viking Press. [1981], Reissue, first published in 1938. Octavo, original tan cloth, gilt titles to spine. [310] pp. Issued as a volume in The Collected Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE.
[Toronto]: Lester & Orpen Denys. [1982]. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. First edition. Original white boards, gilt titles to spine. 232 pp. This Canadian edition precedes both the UK and US editions. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
THIS GUN FOR HIRE.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: A Superior Reprint Published by the Military Service Publishing Co., [1945]. First Paperback Edition. Original pictorial wrappers. Issued as Superior M652 (25¢]. A very good clean copy. Reprint. First issued in 1936 in the UK as THIS GUN FOR SALE, the American edition (also 1936, and possibly preceding..... More
ROBERT GREENE. A NOTABLE DISCOVERY OF COOSNAGE. 1591 / THE SECOND PART OF CONNY-CATCHING. 1592.
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. [1966]. Reprint. Small octavo, original burgundy cloth, white title lettering. A reprint of the 1923 edition issued as Vol I in the Bodley Head Quartos series, which itself was a reprint of the 1591 edition of NOTABLE DISCOVERY... and the 1592 edition of THE..... More
ACROSS THE ZODIAC: The Story of a Wrecked Record. Deciphered, Translated, and Edited by Percy Greg. Two Volumes in One, With a New Introduction by Sam Moskowitz.
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
THE SMILING DEATH.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1927]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, original light brown cloth titled in red and black. 307 pp. A fresh copy, lacking the rare dust jacket. Near Fine. ¶ A Detective Inspector Sims and Professor Wells mystery novel. More
THE VENTURE. A Story of the Shadow World.
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
OF THE WITCHES' PACT WITH THE DEVIL. Deluxe Leather Edition
No Place: Three Hands Press, 2017. First Edition Thus. Leather. First Edition, Deluxe Leather Edition limited to just 40 copies, this being copy No. 30. Octavo. bound in full black goat heavily decorated in gilt. 24 pages, printed letterpress, Designed by Daniel A. Schulke and Joseph Uccello, the book is..... More
THE JOY MAKERS.
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
THE GREEN ISLE OF THE GREEN DEEP.
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
THE GENERAL ORDERS OF FIELD MARSHAL THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, K.G., &c. &c. &c. In Portugal, Spain and France, from 1809 to 1814; and The Low Countries and France, 1815.
London: Printed by William Clowes, 14, Charing Cross. 1832. First Edition, First Printing. First edition. Octavo, original cloth, paper spine label. 460 pp. Slip tipped in at rear annoncing "The Dispatches..." a companion to this work, prepared and shortly to be published. Front board and spine panel loose (separated), but..... More
ALLAN'S WIFE And Other Tales. With Thirty-Four Illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen and Charles Kerr.
London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1900. New Impression. Octavo, original dark reddish-brown cloth with marbled paper boards, spine panel titled in gold. 331 pp., frontispiece with tissue guard, plates and text illustrations throughout. A few water-strikes to the front board (blending in w ith the marbled paper covers]; a clean..... More
BEATRICE.
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
THE LADY OF THE HEAVENS.
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
MORNING STAR. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael.
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