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.
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Slight sunning to spine of book and jacket, o/w VG+.
Illustrations and jacket artwork by John Laurence.
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).
Horror & Gothic
A Mystery
London, Skeffinton & Son, 1898.
Fourth edition. 8vo. Title printed in red & black, frontispiece and 3 plates, patterned endpapers. Original dark pictorial cloth lettered in gilt & black.
An early edition, in very good condition, of the author's most well-known title, a classic of Gothic horror.
"In 'The Beetle' Marsh introduces the supernatural entity known variously as 'The Oriental', 'The Woman of Songs' or 'The Beetle'. This malignant, deformed creature is inhabited by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess...[and] can turn at will into an insect, or alternatively into a man or a woman or an enigmatic amalgam of both." - Richard Dalby, Book and Magazine Collector No. 163 (1997).