Cloth slightly sunned at spine ends; jacket worn with loss at spine ends and fore corners.
Illustrations by Joy Hayes.
£75
London, Philip Allan, 1935.
8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
In stock
Cloth slightly sunned at spine ends; jacket worn with loss at spine ends and fore corners.
Illustrations by Joy Hayes.
with drawings by Low, Matt, Horrabin and others and a foreword by Oliver Baldwin.
London, Philip Allan, [1930].
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Humorous reflections on the leading British politicians of the day, illustrated by the well-known caricaturists of the era.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Philip Allan, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth.
An uncommon first edition, written by 'Geoffrey Aylett' creator Vivian Meik, an Indian-born author. A 'Yellow Peril' classic.
Illustrated Books
London, J.M. Dent, 1902-3.'The Temple Classics' edition, 5th edition. 4 vols. Small 8vo. Original dark blue cloth, spines gilt, upper cover blind-stamped.An attractive multi-volume edition of Malory's Arthurian classic; Dent of course were the publishers of Beardsley's famous 1890s edition.
Weird & Supernatural
A Collection of Uneasy Tales
London, Philip Allan, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original beige cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
The second volume in the 'Creeps' series, Shudders collects eleven "uneasy" horror stories by Birkin (under his own name and pseudonymous), H. R. Wakefield, Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell and others.
Horror & Gothic
London, Philip Allan, 1920.
First edition. 8vo. Modern blue cloth with red leather spine label tooled in gilt.
A handsome copy of this second collection of supernatural tales by Henrietta Dorothy Everett, presumed the first appearance in book form. Includes one of the author's most famous stories, 'The Crimson Blind'.