Some offsetting from plates; Dublin bookseller’s small label and later printed catalogue description to front pastedown; covers somewhat worn and soiled, title-label worn and darkened.
6 hand-coloured aquatint plates.
Bleiler 689.
£1,250
collected with a particular view to counteract the vulgar belief in ghosts and apparitions
London, Ackermann, 1823.
First edition. 8vo. Original boards, printed spine label.
A rare and intriguing work on ghost stories, ‘…based on the theme of false supernaturalism.’ (Bleiler)
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Some offsetting from plates; Dublin bookseller’s small label and later printed catalogue description to front pastedown; covers somewhat worn and soiled, title-label worn and darkened.
6 hand-coloured aquatint plates.
Bleiler 689.
London, Collins, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
Cult novel about a man who discovers his mother has been hiding his monstrous brother in the attic, the author's only dalliance within the fringes of Sci-Fi. Very scarce in the original Rex Whistler jacket.
Bram Stoker Birthday
London, Heinemann, 1905.
First edition. 8vo. Original deep red cloth titled in gilt. With a note from Stoker tipped in to the front flyleaf on Bedford Street notepaper dated 1st September 1905.
An extremely handsome association copy of a rare piece of Stoker. The note from Stoker reads:
"My Dear Hatton, I hope you will care for my new novel The Man, of which a copy herewith...[illegible in peak Stoker fashion], Heinemann from September 8th, Yours ever, Bram Stoker."
The Hatton in question is almost certainly Joseph Hatton, friend and collaborator of Stoker, and a celebrated (at the time) author in his own right, who had worked with Stoker on a couple of rather sizeable projects including The Reminiscences of Henry Irving in America, and the "Crowdsourced from the Usual Suspects" late Victorian portmanteau thriller which was "The Fate of Fenella."
Horror & Gothic
First edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd 1925
London, C.Arthur Pearson, 1916.
First abridged edition. Small 8vo. Original dark grey cloth blocked in black.
An attractive abridgment of the weird & supernatural tales of psychic detective Flaxman Low, written by mother & son team 'E. & H. Heron'. The stories first appeared in Pearson's Magazine (1899). Hesketh was a prolific turn-of-the-century author, creator of then then very popular sadistic bandit character Don Q., as noted by Bleiler now "deservedly forgotten".