Pemberton (Clive) The Weird o’ it.
£1,750
First edition (one of c. 300 copies only).
London. Henry J.Drane, 1906
Contains ten weird and supernatural short stories which includes, The Spider, The Pool, The Will of Luke Carlowe, The Wedding Guest, The Soul of Nina Ventrix, The Bulb, Purple Eyes, A Hundred Year’s Dead, A Dead Man’s Bargain and The Compact. The Weird O’ It is considered to be of legendary rarity in the supernatural genre. Henry J. Drane produced books in very small print run editions and it is likely that there would have only been around 300 copies of this book originally. It has been suggested that there are three variants of the book known. Copies exist in red, pale green and cream cloth although priority is not known. In 2000, Midnight House of Seattle republished a hardcover edition of “The Weird o’ It,” limited to 460 copies.
Out of stock
Cream cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in gilt which is faded to spine, floral artwork to front cover in black, cloth to spine panel a little darkened and very lightly rubbed along edges, general soiling and marks to covers, lower corners a little bumped, endpapers slightly tanned & foxed, light scattered foxing to text but generally clean throughout, generally a Very good copy of a very rare book. There is a circulating library label affixed to front paste-down, “Balfour Club Lending Library” which was a tiny circulating library of the day.
Related products
Weird & Supernatural
Third edition.
London, Hutchinson, Not dated but likely to have been published in the
1920's.
Illustrations by Jean de Bosschere. Uncanny Tales was first published in the UK in 1923. An important collection of supernatural
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
Weird & Supernatural
First edition.
London. Hutchinson, [1926]
The continuing adventures of Allan Quatermain, set in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events. One of two works published posthumously.