![Mark Hansom, The Shadow on the House, First US edition, [1935].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87365-300x300.jpg)
Weird & Supernatural
Hansom (Mark, pseud. Ronald Muirden) The Shadow on the House
New York, William Godwin, Inc., [1935].
First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
"Weird thriller in which the narrator is apparently possessed by the spirit of an insane ancestor." (Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy p104). Rare, especially in the jacket.
American Literature
London, Picador, 1998.
First hardback edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Ellis's notorious novel American Psycho, first published in 1991 in paperback, was only issued in hardback in Britain in 1998 by Picador after years of censorship controversy. The book, a satirical and shocking portrait of consumerism, narcissism, and violence through the Wall Street psychopath Patrick Bateman, is a landmark of postmodern American fiction.
Historical Fiction
London, Jonathan Cape, 1923.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
An early novel by John Brandane, the pen-name of Scottish physician John MacIntyre, who specialised in fiction and drama rooted in Highland settings and Scottish identity.
![Jeffrey Farnol, The Shadow and other stories, 'Library Edition', [c.1931].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87360-300x300.jpg)
Weird & Supernatural
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., n.d. [c.1931].
'Library Edition'. 8vo. Original dark red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A collection of Farnol's shorter fiction, originally published in 1929; including the tale 'Black coffee' with it is Ancient Egyptian themes. A popular author for weird & supernatural anthologies. Scarce in the jacket. Stories featured:
The Shadow.--Captain Hector.--Retribution.--The heir.--Black coffee.--Upon a day.--A boy and the man.--An episode.--Jasper Railton.--The cupboard.--Fortune's fool.--A change of mind.--Journey's end.--The great quietude.--Sir Pertolepe the Red.--The divine Phyllidia.--A woman's reason.
![Christine Campbell Thomson, At Dead of Night, First edition, [1931].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87359-300x300.jpg)
Weird & Supernatural
London, Selwyn & Blount, [1931].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. In early impression dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
One of the most sought-after volumes in Christine Campbell Thomson's famous "Not at Night" anthology series, At Dead of Night collects stories of horror and the supernatural by a variety of pulp and weird-fiction writers, reinforcing the series' importance, not least in bringing American pulp horror to British audiences.
London, John Murray, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
One of the earliest analytical works on British fascism, preceding the war-time suppression of the BUF, often cited in bibliographies of fascist and anti-fascist literature.
Children's Books
Introduced by Guy Paget
London, Duckworth, 1938.
First edition, first impression. 4to. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
Humorous verse and prose by Australian-born poet and horseman W.H. Ogilvie with equestrian caricatures by noted sporting artist G. Denholm Armour.
![Mark Hansom, Sorcerer's Chessmen, First edition,[1939].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87352-300x300.jpg)
Weird & Supernatural
London, Wright & Brown, [1939].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
One of the rare horror-fantasy novels by "Mark Hansom," the pseudonym of Ronald Muirden. Known for their occult and Gothic themes, Hansom's books are highly prized among collectors of supernatural fiction, with this title listed in Bleiler and Reginald bibliographies. The story blends the sinister and fantastic in pulp-era style, reflecting interwar British horror publishing trends. True firsts in dust-jacket are scarce and command interest amongst collectors of the weird and supernatural.
![Irene Harand, "Sein Kampf", Early reprint. [c.1935].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87351-300x300.jpg)
Biography
antwort an Hitler
Vienna, , n.d. [c.1935].
Early reprint. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
Viennese activist Irene Harand's Sein Kampf: Antwort an Hitler (literally "His Struggle: An Answer to Hitler"), first issued in 1935, was one of the earliest direct rebuttals to Hitler's Mein Kampf, systematically countering his antisemitic propaganda with fact, moral argument, and Catholic humanist reasoning.
Modern Literature
and other stories
London, Secker & Warburg, 1958.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 13s6d.
Short story collection by John Prebble, best known later for his historical works such as Culloden and The Highland Clearances.
![James Norman, The Nightwalkers, First edition, [1948].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87348-300x300.jpg)
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, [1948].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Crime thriller set in then contemporary China.
Modern Literature
London, Constable, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Brandane continues his exploration of Highland life, rural character and social change, themes for which he was well-known as both a playwright and a novelist.
![Alternative view of [Birkin (Charles, editor)] Shudders.](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87346_2-300x300.jpg)
Weird & Supernatural
A Collection of Uneasy Tales
London, Philip Allan, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original beige cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
The second volume in the 'Creeps' series, Shudders collects eleven "uneasy" horror stories by Birkin (under his own name and pseudonymous), H. R. Wakefield, Tod Robbins, Elliott O'Donnell and others.
American Literature
London, Peter Davies, 1953.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
One of a series of provocative mid-century novels exploring sexuality, psychology and bohemian life by Keogh, themes that prefigured and influenced later counter-cultural and queer writing.
Detective Fiction
London, Chatto & Windus, 1953.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
Social unrest leads to sabotage at an Admiralty dockyard. Scarce signed.
![P.G. Wodehouse, A Century of Humour, First edition, [1935].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87341-300x300.jpg)
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial mustard-yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
This anthology, edited by the master humorist P.G. Wodehouse, gathers a wide selection of comic writing to showcase the breadth of English humour as it evolved into the 20th century, reflecting Wodehouse's own role not just as a comic novelist but also as a curator of the tradition he epitomised.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Faber & Faber, 1971.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced £1.75.
A very good first UK edition of this classic sci-fi title, first published in Galaxy Magazine, October 1967.
![S. Whiles, The Newark Cookery Book of Well-Tried Recipes, [c.1890?].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87338-300x300.jpg)
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Newark, S. Whiles, n.d. [c.1890?].
8vo. Advertisements. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards.
A late-Victorian provincial cookery book issued in Newark by S. Whiles, featuring practical recipes alongside contemporary advertisements, this title exemplifies the regional and community-driven cookbooks of the period which blended household instruction with commercial nous.
Modern Literature
London, Talmy, Franklin, 1971.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.50.
First UK edition of The Dice Man, recounting the life of a psychiatrist who surrenders decisions to dice rolls, launching a bizarre cult-classic trajectory.
Modern Literature
London, Bentley, 1895.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine gilt.
"Scylla or Charybdis? (1895) has a mother hiding her infamous past from her son and obsessing about his love even to the extent of being jealous of other women, a plot to some extent anticipating Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913). The novel questions social conventions in revealing how destructive they can be to quiet people who might have once stepped aside from the proper path." [Wikipedia]
African literature
Du Plessis (Phil), Stephen Gray, Wilma Stockenström, Wessel Pretorius, editors. IZWI.
VOICE/STEM
Johannesburg, IZWI, 1st December 1973.
Vol.3 No.13. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers.
IZWI (Voice/Stem) was an avant-garde South African literary-arts magazine published from Johannesburg (specifically Crown Mines), notable for its community of writers and artists operating outside mainstream (i.e., apartheid) norms. It's culturally significant for its role in fostering South Africa's literary counter-culture, its aesthetic and socio-political commentary marking a shift from earlier European-derived poetic forms to distinctive Southern African voice.
Modern Literature
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
Geoff Brown's 1966 debut novel I Want What I Want boldly portrays Wendy Ross's transition from Roy Clark, exploring early-era transgender experience in 1960s England. The novel was adapted into a 1972 British drama film of the same name, directed by John Dexter and starring Anne Heywood as Wendy/Roy.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Methuen, 1928.
Third UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Chessmen of Mars, originally published in the US in 1922, continues the adventures of John Carter on the dying planet of Barsoom.
London, Harrap, 1934.
First edition, trade issue. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
An attractively illustrated edition of this classic of children's literature, illustrated by one of the greats from the Golden Age of Illustration.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1951.First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket.The first UK novelisation of American playwright and crime fiction novelist Carleton's well-known play.