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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Later Printing. Glossy black boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Very light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Hector Garrido. This anthology contains: Introduction by Ray Bradbury; The Fairies Revenge by Sinead de Valera; Hell Fire by James Joyce; Witch Wood by Lord Dunsany; The House Among The Laurels by William Hope Hodgson; The Man Wolf by Giraldus Cambrensis; The Friendly Demon by Daniel Defoe; The Parricide's Tale by Charles Robert Maturin; The Soul Cages by T. Crofton Croker; Wicked Captain Walshawe by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Legends of Witches, Fairies and Leprechauns by Lady Wilde; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; The Banshee's Warning by Charlotte Riddell; The Legend of Fin M'Coul by William Carleton; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; The Crucifixion of the Outcast by W. B. Yeats; The Man From Kilsheelan by A. E. Coppard; The Dead Smile by Francis Marion Crawford; The Coonian Ghost by Shane Leslie; The Haunted Spinney by Elliot O'Donnell; The Moon Bog by H. P. Lovecraft; and A Wild Night In Galway by Ray Bradbury. Size: 8vo. Hector Garrido; (illustratore). Book.…

Soft cover. Condizione: FAIR, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher. 317 pages. "This anthology contains: The Fairies Revenge by Sinead de Valera; Hell Fire by James Joyce; Witch Wood by Lord Dunsany; The House Among the Laurels by William Hope Hodgson; The Man Wolf by Giraldus Cambrensis; The Friendly Demon by Daniel Defoe; The Parricide's Tale by Charles Robert Maturin; The Soul Cages by T. Crofton Croker; Wicked Captain Walshawe by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; Legends of Witches, Fairies and Leprechauns by Lady Wilde; The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde; The Banshee's Warning by Charlotte Riddell; The Legend of Fin M'Coul by William Carleton; Julia Cahill's Curse by George Moore; The Crucifixion of The Outcast by W. B. Yeats; The Man From Kilsheelan by A. E. Coppard; The Dead Smile by Francis Marion Crawford; The Coonian Ghost by Shane Leslie; The Haunted Spinney by Elliot O'Donnell; The Moon Bog by H. P. Lovecraft; and A Wild Night in Galway by Ray Bradbury." >>This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; pen to interior backcover & last pages; store stamp to interior front cover & front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Painted Front Cover. (illustratore). Book. …

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. illustrated edition. 240 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Disbound. ; First published in Dublin in 1719. ; xv, 38 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. illustrated edition. 240 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. 139 pp. Red cloth bevelled boards with blind deorative design and gilt lettering. Binding splitting to p. 176-177. Discolouration to the edges of boards, more so to the rear; sunned spine and wear to spine ends. Some red staining to endpapers, with '1860' written in blue pencil to upper left corner, previous owners' names from 1872/84 and early bookstamp of W. H. Smith. '1860'. Light underlining in blue ink to text and handwritten notes to rear blank. Small 8vo. Fairholt, F. W. (illustratore).…

Cloth. Condizione: Good. An illustrated copy of this historical account of the author's observations during a journey from London to Fulham. Illustrated throughout. Intended to preserve the memory of places that may soon be lost due to urban development, this account captures the author's musings and observations as he travels along the route from London to Fulham. With commentary on significant landmarks, historical figures, and cultural anecdotes associated with the area. Written by Thomas Crofton Croker, an Irish antiquary, best known for his Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. Revised and edited by his son, Thomas Francis Dillon Croker, a British antiquary and poet. Illustrated by Frederick William Fairholt, an English antiquary and wood-engraver. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine with splits to the rear joint. Hinges tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. A contemporary ink inscription to the front pastedown. Good. F. W. Fairholt (illustratore). book.…

[JUVENILE] [ANNUAL PUBLICATION] [HOLIDAY]. London: John Ebers and Co. Old Bond Street; and Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1829. 16mo (6 ½" x 4"); viii, [1]-240pp; three quarter bound brown calf and marbled boards, gilt-ruled and stamped ornaments in the 5 spine compartments, black leather label with title onlaid to spine; gift presentation inscribed on title page dated "27 July 1829"; small engraved illustrations; scuffing to boards, chipping to spine, front joint starting, lacking ffep and front flyleaf, some light soiling on pages, spine cracked but stitching holding tight; very good minus. A collection of poems and short stories. The second of two volumes of the Annual that were published, 1828 and 1829. Probably the first English children's Annual per Carpenter and Prichard's The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (p. 136). Delicate wood engravings decorate the pages. Authors included in this volume are Mr. Aston, Major N. Ludlow Beamish, Major Brown, Allan Cunningham, Miss Dagley, Mrs. James Douglas, Miss Edgeworth, Henry Ellis, Mrs. Emmerson, Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Hofland, Mary Howitt, Joseph Humphreys, Mrs. R.S. Jameson, Madame de Labourt, Mr. R.A. Lynch, Mrs. Markham, Miss Mitford, and Mrs. Neely. Includes the first printing of Miss Maria Edgeworth's (1768-1849) story, Garry Owen; or, The Snow-Woman.…