Ink name to front endpaper; spine dulled and a little bumped and frayed.
Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
£175
London, Macmillan, 1897.
Illustrated edition. 8vo. Original gilt decorative cloth.
An attractive illustrated edition of Austen’s most underrated work, with an introduction by Austin Dobson.
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Ink name to front endpaper; spine dulled and a little bumped and frayed.
Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Detective Fiction
Glinto (Darcy, pseud. Harold Ernest Kelly) No Mortgage on a Coffin
London, Wells Gardner, Darton, [c.1940]. First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers and pictorial jacket. The first pulp novel Kelly published under the name Darcy Glinto, whose queasy blend of sleaze, schlock and American-style hard-boiled narrative quickly garnered both popularity and notoriety.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Macmillan, 1915
First edition, later impression, inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and with additional gift inscription from him mounted to same; 8vo. 8pp. advertisements; typed Blackwood poem loosely inserted. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Dust-jacket.
First published in 1909, this is at least the fourth reprint. The inscriptions seem to imply a correction on the author's behalf, the first inscribed to 'Miss Norton', the second 'Miss Naughton'.
Weird & Supernatural
An Anthology of Mystical Verse
London, Macmillan, 1932.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
An interesting and ambitious work, compiling mystical poems from English and non-English traditions. Scarce in the dust-jacket.