Book VG; jacket with some light rubbing and marking, edge wear and some splits with loss.
Jacket artwork by Margaret Wolpe.
£250
London, Faber, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. dust-jacket, 9s6d.
An uncommon anthology of ghost tales published by Faber, including authors such as Wilkie Collins and Rudyard Kipling.
In stock
Book VG; jacket with some light rubbing and marking, edge wear and some splits with loss.
Jacket artwork by Margaret Wolpe.
Horror & Gothic
London, Geoffrey Bles, [1926],
First edition. Signed & inscribed by the author. 8vo. Original cloth.
Signed and inscribed by the author on front endpaper with this distinctive, flourishing signature.
The basis for the movie of the same name starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger and Ralph Richardson (making his movie debut)
Extremely scarce signed and inscribed by the author.
Horror & Gothic
Tales of Thrill and Horror Selected and Arranged By Christine Campbell Thomson. First edition. London, Selwyn & Blount, [1933] This is No 9 in the Famous Not At Night Series of books.
Horror & Gothic
London, Robert Hale, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12/6.
A semi-gothic thriller set largely in Victorian London, by a prolific writer and biographer. The book, like many of Hooke's, was subsequently made into a film, The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958).