Small ink stamp to front endpaper, book VG; jacket torn with loss across the top edge, some chips and tears, o/w VG-.
Illustrations and jacket artwork by Ralph Keene.
£295
London, Robert Holden, 1926.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A second collection of weird tales by the author of The Street of Queer Houses. Uncommon, especially in the original dust-jacket.
In stock
Small ink stamp to front endpaper, book VG; jacket torn with loss across the top edge, some chips and tears, o/w VG-.
Illustrations and jacket artwork by Ralph Keene.
Horror & Gothic
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
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
First edition.
London. Grant Richards, 1923
A lost race novel in which a lost heiress takes over an African tribe. Very scarce in wrapper.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Heinemann, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket.
A good first edition of Dunsany's classic humorous novel about an alcohol-loving clergyman who thinks he is the reincarnation of a dog...the jacket artwork says it all.