Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, n.d..
'Popular Edition'. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
A lovely early reissue of this classic, "the story of a mother's vengeance".
Horror & Gothic
London, Odhams, [1919].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth.
A notoriously rare collection, including the tale 'The housekeeper', subsequently republished as 'The Confession of Beau Sekforde'.
![Joseph Shearing [Marjorie Bowen], Orange Blossom, first edition, with A.L.s., 1938](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/85663-300x300.jpg)
Horror & Gothic
London, Heinemann, 1938.
First edition. 1½ page autograph letter from the author tipped in at front. 8vo. Original orange-brown cloth lettered in gilt.
A superb association copy: Roughead's writings inspired the Shearing novel The Fetch (dedicated to him). The book is notable for containing the ghost story 'They Found my Grave' not available elsewhere in the reprint collections issued in the author's lifetime. Edward Wagenknecht was exuberant about this ghost story in his essay on Marjorie Bowen (Seven Masters of the Supernatural), praising its 'atmosphere of evil'.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1926].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black and blocked in blind.
A scarce collection, not in listed in Shadows in the Attic nor Locke's Spectrum of Fantasy 1 to 3.
![Alternative view of [Blatchford (Robert)] Dismal England](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/85656_2-300x400.jpg)
Non-Fiction
London, Walter Scott, 1899.
First edition. 8vo. Original red gilt-pictorial cloth.
A bright attractive copy of this mournful reflection on British society at the turn of the century, by a then well-known socialist, novelist and campaigner.
Weird & Supernatural
and what they undertook
London, Sands & Co., 1898.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt.
A collection of stories told over seven days by various narrators, including a longer, nautical tale, 'The Voyage of the Lethe', told by a barber. Other tales include intriguing titles like 'Wanted, a Corpse,' 'The Witch's Dance,' and 'The Spoiled Spell,' many with some modest supernatural content. A rare book by the author of the 1912 weird mystery novel, The Mummy.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Lincoln Williams, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in black.
A scarce science fiction title, published under a distinctly uncommon imprint. The title is referenced in the checklists of Bleiler and Reginald.
Historical Fiction
London, Heinemann, 1966.
First edition. 8vo. Original terracotta boards. Dust-jacket, priced 30s.
The first volume of Scott's famous 'Raj Quartet'.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Sampson Low, Son, & Martson, 1869.
First UK edition. 8vo. Publisher's advertisements at end. Original brown cloth lettered and ruled in gilt.
The first UK edition of this collection of ghostly tales, published the year after the author's most well known work, The Gates Ajar, one of the best-selling works on spiritualism of all time.
Weird & Supernatural
Ray (Jean, pseud. Raymundus Joannes de Kremer) Ghouls in my Grave
New York, Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1965.
'Berkley Medallion Edition', first edition in English. 8vo. Rebound in contemporary cloth with original wrapper bound in.
One of the more collectable titles published by Berkley, who cut their teeth on paperback editions of Sci-Fi and Weird modern classics. This represents the first appearance in English of these tales by 'Jean Ray'.
Weird & Supernatural
Translated by G.F. Monkhood
London, Literary Press, n.d..
8vo. Original red cloth, spine gilt.
An attractive jacketed edition of Gautier's Le Roman de La Momie, originally published in 1858, a historical novel set in Ancient Egypt, which features the Biblical Exodus.
Historical Fiction
Durban, South Africa, Knox Publishing Company, n.d. [1942].
8vo. Original green cloth.
An interesting volume regarding the queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, great royal wife to Pharaoh Akhenaten.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1917.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale red cloth stamped in black. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
An early collection of war tales by the original 'Sapper', extremely uncommon in the original jacket.