London, Ward & Downey, [1888].

First collected edition. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth lettered in gilt to spine.

"A general collection containing Riddell's fine supernatural short story, 'The last of Squire Enmismore'." (Shadows in the Attic, p.423).

a mystery
London, Skeffington & Son, 1897.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.

The first edition of Marsh's horror novel in which a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian entity exerts a hypnotic influence over his victims, leading to a series of strange and terrifying events in 1890s London. The novel unfolds through four narrators, each recounting their harrowing encounter with "the Beetle." The novel is often cited as a quintessential example of fin de siècle Gothic fiction, embodying the era's anxieties and. narrative innovations. Upon release, it was a sensation, and by 1913 it had gone through fifteen printings.

A Romance of Life and Death
London, Hutchinson, 1895.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.

Historical fiction by Irish journalist, novelist, dramatist and poet, Frankfort Moore. "The book abounds with Gothic passages steeped in ritual eroticism...Egyptomania and Egyptology; occult and cult form, and ancient cults as a sociological and religious history of gothic taste." (The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, p.245)

or a survey of the revolutions of empires
London, for J. Johnson, 1792.

First edition in English. 8vo. Later calf backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt.

A landmark Enlightenment meditation on the cyclical rise and collapse of civilisations, arguing that empires fall through superstition, political corruption and the misuse of religious authority, rather than divine design. Through a pioneering comparative analysis of ancient religions, Volney treats Christianity as one mythic system among many, anticipating the Christ Myth thesis and establishing the work as a foundational text of modern secular history and comparative religion.

A Fragment
London, John Murray, 1817.

Fourth edition. 8vo. Contemporary half calf.

An early and curious work of speculative fiction in which Thomas Erskine, former Lord Chancellor, imagines a hidden counterpart to the known world. Following a violent storm and shipwreck in the far southern seas, the narrator is cast upon the island of Armata, part of a parallel planet whose geography and civilisation mirror, yet subtly distort, those of Britain. Through this imagined society, Erskine constructs a utopian thought-experiment, using displacement and planetary doubling to explore questions of political order, social justice, war, and economic excess in the aftermath of the Napoleonic era. Part travel romance, part philosophical allegory, Armata stands as an early example of British proto-science-fiction, anticipating later nineteenth-century speculative and utopian narratives.

A Romance
London, Trischler & Company, 1891.

'Third Thousand'. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered & decorated in yellow.

A weird novel of supernatural possession in which the soul of the dead Countess Agnes Adrian, a femme fatale who has studied occultism in the East, displaces the soul of a young American actress; a kind of vampirism.

London, T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1923.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

An attractively illustrated book on the Ancient East.

London, Methuen, 1926.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

An attractively illustrated book on southern India.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.

Attractive jacket artwork on this Inspector Septimus Finch title.

from the Memoirs of Hudson of Harley Street
Glasgow, Fraser, Asher, 1923.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.

The first edition in book form of these medical crime stories, which originally appeared in The Sunday Mail.

London, Wright & Brown, 1964.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.

A letter that could trigger a new world war is the latest headache for Major "Brains" Cunningham.

London, Wright & Brown, 1966.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.

A Cuban crisis leads to Haitian horror for Major "Brains" Cunningham.