Slight sunning to spine of book and jacket, o/w VG+.
Illustrations and jacket artwork by John Laurence.
£350
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1983.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced £7.95.
The famous ghost story that inspired film, television, stage and audio adaptations. Scary stuff.
In stock
Slight sunning to spine of book and jacket, o/w VG+.
Illustrations and jacket artwork by John Laurence.
Horror & Gothic
London, Denis Archer, [1932].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Sinisterly appealing jacket artwork graces this scarce first edition in jacket; classic horror stuff, with a clergyman possessed by the devil. Genuinely rare.
Horror & Gothic
London, Cassell, 1936.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with red spine label. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A rare Sax Rohmer edition, in which an ancient Egyptian secret intriguingly like atomic power is unleashed. Distinctly hard to find in the original dust-jacket.
Horror & Gothic
London, Robert Hale, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12/6.
A semi-gothic thriller set largely in Victorian London, by a prolific writer and biographer. The book, like many of Hooke's, was subsequently made into a film, The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958).