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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects "Cafe Purgatorium" by Dana M. Anderson, "Dr. Krusadian's Method" by Ray Garton, and "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint. Anonymously edited by David G. Hartwell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#9535).

Small octavo, red cloth stamped in gold. Later printing. Reprint of an early anthology of weird tales first published by Harper in 1890. Includes "The Horla" (first book appearance in English) and "On the River" by de Maupassant, "The Tall Woman" by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, "Maese Perez, the Organist" by Gustavo Adolfo Becqer, "Fioraccio" by Giovanni Magherini-Graziani and two other non-fantastic stories by European writers. A clean, bright, nearly fine copy. (#176900).

Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-224, frontispiece, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, yellow and gold, rear panel stamped in black, decorated endpapers. Later printing. A collection of Victorian fiction reprinted from CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL by Leitch Ritchie, Mrs. Crowe, and others (the authors of three of the tales are identified but most of the stories appear here without attribution). Stories of romance and adventure, mostly with foreign settings. Wolff 7832. Spine lean, inner hinges cracked, several text leaves soiled, handwritten ownership statement of the "Ravenstonedale Reading Room Library" on the the front paste-down, a reading copy. (#171194).

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-646. Collects eight stories by Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Eric Frank Russell (two selections), Robert Silverberg, M. C. Pease, Frederik Pohl, and George H. Smith. A fine copy. (#94477).

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F712. Collects nine stories by Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Jerome Bixby, Algis Budrys, and others. Neat owner's name at upper right corner of first leaf, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, a near fine, bright copy. (#88559).

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont Books 92-606. Collects seven stories by Philip K. Dick, Frank Russell, Poul Anderson, and others. Reginald 09795. Touch of dust soiling to rear cover, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#88070).

Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Collects eight stories by the Strugatskys, G. Gor, Anatoly Dneprov, and others. The U.S. edition adds an introduction by Judith Merril not present in the earlier 1966 British edition published by Macgibbon & Kee. Reginald 11215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#86530).

Small octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-170 [171-174: blank] note: last two leaves are blanks], illustrations, title page printed in orange and black, original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Seven stories by Robert Barr, Louise Chandler Moulton, and others. Wright (III) 5362. A fine copy. (#135961).

Small octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-192, illustrations, title page printed in orange and black, original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Six stories by Earl Joslyn, George H. Jessop, James T. McKay, Annie Howells Fréchette, Lizzie Hyer Neff, and James F. McKay. Wright (III) 5360. A fine copy. (#135960).

Small octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-164 [165-168: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], inserted frontispiece. title leaf and extra title leaf printed in orange and black, original red cloth stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Seven stories by Marion Hill (two contributions), George Madden Martin, G. K. Turner, Ellisworth Kelley, Louise Herrick Wall and Annie Webster. Smith Y-51. A very good copy. (#133470).

Hardcover. First Edition. Pictorial Cover on black, boards have been nicked front and back; corners and spine frayed, pages have darkened, else good; 98 p. frontis. Johnston governor of Alabama twice and U.S. Senator.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-287 [288: blank], publisher's pictorial purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white. First U.S. edition of this collection. Mystery and supernatural fiction culled from the three-volume DREAMLAND AND GHOSTLAND (George Redway 1887). In addition to Doyle's "The Secret of Goresthorpe Grange." there are contributions by James Grant and Florence Marryat, among others. "A good representation of period fiction, light and dark, grim and gentle." - Robert Knowlton. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1773. Reginald 13769. Green and Gibson, A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle (1983) C81b. Some loss to the perishable white chalk stamping, some fade to cloth, inner front hinge a bit weak, a good copy. (#176794).

Hardback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. viii, 534pp. illustrated throughout. Publishers cream cloth is now dust soiled Leather title label.

Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1896 New Amsterdam Book Company edition. A partial reprint of A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES, a British Christmas annual of fiction and poetry published in 1867 by Tinsley Brothers, with additions and omissions. Collects eleven supernatural tales by American and British writers presented here anonymously. Includes "Dickon the Devil" by Le Fanu (first appearance in a book) and "What Was It?" by Fitz-James O'Brien. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#176883).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-286 [287-288: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], printed in pink and black throughout, original boards with color pictorial paper onlay on front panel, decorated endpapers. First edition. Ten stories by Bulwer-Lytton, Miss Mitford, Agnes Strickland, Mrs. Gore, and others. A pretty little book with an unusual binding: a strip of cloth extends about a half-inch under the front and rear boards, and goes over the spine board: printed paper labels on spine and front provide the title and decoration, while decorative endpapers hold it all together. The front pictorial onlay has a nice drawing, in the manner of Edmund Frederick, of an idealized young woman. 1913 Christmas gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Several old Christmas stickers pasted to endpapers. A nearly fine copy. Scarce. OCLC reports 3 copies; no copies reported by COPAC. (#116440).

Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-164 [165: ad] [166: blank] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black pasted over stiff boards. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Covers dusty, a very good copy. (#113763).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. Publishers green cloth with spine titles in gilt, plain brown endpapers. Cover cloth and front endpapers stained, some scattered foxing, a FAIRLY GOOD copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publishers green cloth with splotchy fade to spine panel, touch of foxing to foredge of pages, VERY GOOD. Massive anthology 1178 pages with 70 stories by 41 authors. A color reproduction dust wrapper is supplied.

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-2] 3-325 [326: blank], twenty inserted plates with illustrations by J. Greville Wilmot, original two-part white and purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. 325-page anonymously edited anthology with thirty stories by Octave Thanet, Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman], Charles King, George Ade, Irving Batcheller, Opie Read, Elia W. Peattie, Albert Bigelow Paine and others. Several of the stories are supernatural, including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read (about a mummy), "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller (dreams and insanity), and "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett (a strange flower and insanity). According to Publisher's Weekly, two 5000-copy press runs were required to meet the public demand for the book. BAL 6363 (Freeman). Wright (III) 4931. Corner tips lightly worn, some spotting and soiling to cloth, a very good copy. (#164610).

Small octavo, six volumes, frontispiece in each volume, numerous vignettes in text, title pages printed in black, blue and orange, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, decorated endpapers. Mixed, mostly first editions. A full set of the six individual anthologies issued in 1893, all reprinting short stories from SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE: STORIES OF NEW YORK, STORIES OF ITALY, STORIES OF THE ARMY, STORIES OF THE SEA, STORIES OF THE SOUTH, STORIES OF THE RAILWAY. All are first editions except STORIES OF ITALY, which is an 1894 reprint. The NEW YORK volume includes Edith Wharton's short story, "Mrs. Manstey's View," her first prose work to appear in a book. All volumes (except STORIES OF ITALY) contain supernatural material. Garrison B2. Three volumes (NEW YORK, SOUTH, and RAILWAY) lack the front free endpaper, one (SEA) with considerable foxing and some stains to covers, generally a good to very good set. (#135710).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Second binding of brown cloth with spine panel lettered in gold. A total of 984 copies were printed of which this is one of 100 copies in the second binding. Introduction by Anthony Boucher and eight stories by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Anderson and Dickson collaboration, Anthony Boucher (two stories), Mack Reynolds and August Derleth (two stories), and H. Beam Piper with John J. McGuire. A fine copy in very good first printing dust jacket with tanning to edges and spine panel. (#176627).

Octavo, boards. First edition. First binding of gray boards with spine panel lettered in gold. A total of 984 copies were printed of which this is one of 500 copies in the first binding. Introduction by Anthony Boucher and eight stories by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Anderson and Dickson collaboration, Anthony Boucher (two stories), Mack Reynolds and August Derleth (two stories), and H. Beam Piper with John J. McGuire. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with tanning to spine panel and edges. (#172920).

Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-193 [194-196: blank], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges trimmed. First U.S. edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Preface signed in type: "C.J.T." Five novelettes, weird and mystery: "A Strange Bride" variant on "The Death Bride" in Mrs. Utterson's TALES OF THE DEAD (1813), "The Crazy Half-Heller" is Fouque's "The Bottle Imp," "The Goldsmith of the Rue Nicaise" is Hoffmann's "Mademoiselle de Scudari." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1583. Bleiler (1978), p. 37. Reginald 13944. A nearly fine, bright copy. (#171218). Signed.

Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-178 [179-180: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges trimmed. First U.S. edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Author of all these tales is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870), known as "the Spanish Poe," the most famous nineteenth century Spanish writer of supernatural fiction, also very influential on Latin American fiction. This is one of only two English-language collections extant, the other being the uncommon ROMANTIC LEGENDS OF SPAIN (Crowell 1909). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1585. Bleiler (1978), p. 37. Reginald 13946. Free endpapers tanned, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#171294).

Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-207 [208: blank], original apple green bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A mixed collection of fiction and verse by now quite obscure writers. There were at least three volumes of this series, the last published circa 1916. Cloth a bit spotted and soiled, scattered foxing, several leaves with old creases at lower fore-edge margins, a very good copy. (#170096).

Large octavo, pp. [3-4] 5-160; 5-96 [note: complete despite gap in pagination], inserted chromolithograph frontispiece, other illustrations, some full-page, in the text, original pictorial bevel-edged red cloth stamped in green, blue, black and silver, chromolithograph mounted on front cover, endpaper ads. First edition. A collection of patriotic adventure fiction for boys, mostly military exploits on land and at sea, set in various parts of the British Empire. Authors include Gordon Stables, Harold Bindloss, Frank Savile, and others. COPAC reports 3 copies. Mild damp stains to rear cover, a bright, very good copy. (#135945).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-244, original pictorial gray wrappers printed in red. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Paper wrappers dusty, a very good copy. Scarce. (#113762).