Minor toning to margins, ink name to front endpaper; cloth slightly rubbed at edges; jacket with vertical fold down lower hinge, overall a remarkably good example.
Jacket artwork by Philip Simmonds.
£1,250 Original price was: £1,250.£1,000Current price is: £1,000.
A Collection of Uneasy Tales
London, Philip Allan, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
An anthology from the famous ‘Creeps’ series, featuring stories by Edith Olivier and others.
Out of stock
Minor toning to margins, ink name to front endpaper; cloth slightly rubbed at edges; jacket with vertical fold down lower hinge, overall a remarkably good example.
Jacket artwork by Philip Simmonds.
Weird & Supernatural
First edition.
London. Dent, 1910
The author’s first short story collection containing some fine examples of ghost and horror stories including the much anthologised tale, ‘August Heat’ (Shadows in the Attic p.247).
Weird & Supernatural
London, Hutchinson, [1932].
First edition. 8vo. 40pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated Autumn 1932. Original claret cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
The danger of a demoniacally loving woman, as suggested by the somewhat startling jacket artwork.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Eveleigh Nash, 1916.
First edition. 8vo. Advertisements. Original cloth.
Two poems and eight short stories, mostly of darkly supernatural nautical themes inspired by the author's own time at sea. "Long neglected, unappreciated, one of most important formative influences in modern tale of supernatural horror." (Bleiler). Very rare.
Weird & Supernatural
London [&c.], Cassell, 1941
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A good copy of this title from the popular Fu Manchu series of books by Sax Rohmer.
Weird & Supernatural
First edition. Collection of eighteen stories.
London, Longmans, 1930
"Short stories with an Egyptian setting, some of which are fantasy and weird, and some at least of which first appeared in magazines under the pen name of 'Abu Nadaar' ..." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 161. The title story was reprinted in POWERS OF DARKNESS (1934), one of Philip Allan's anthologies in the "Creeps" series. Rare in d/w