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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 241 pp. Fine in a Near Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: Thirty years ago Arkham House published Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories, containing all the best of the short supernatural stories of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873). The majority of the spectral tales of the great Irish Victorian master of terror were virtually unknown then in the United States, except a few like the widely anthologized "Green Tea" and "Camilla." It is possible that even now, since he published anonymously, not all of his work has been discovered in the files of yellowed magazines of more than a century ago. This second collection, therefore, reprints the remainder of those tales positively identified as his which were not included in the previous volume. With an introduction by the late August Derleth, The Purcell Papers, though not representative of Le Fanu's best, is nevertheless an interesting and entertaining supplement capable of producing the genuine terrors of its predecessor. Occasionally there is an engaging variant to be found, as suggested by "The Drunkard's Dream" and "The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh," "attesting," as August Derleth remarks, "to L:e Fanu's penchant for treating the same theme again and perhaps again in different settings." The phantasmagoria displayed in "The Spectre Lovers" invites comparison of the author's keen visual sense with modern cinematic technique. Both "The Ghost and the Bone-Setter" and "The Quare Gander" offer ample evidence of Le Fanu's surpassing skill in blending the comic with the supernatural. "The Child That Went With the Fairies" adds to the charm of folklore tradition an element of poignancy. And "The Churchyard Yew" with its explanatory note may prove reactionary as well as surprising for the unwary reader. But there are stories with horror enough to satisfy the most exacting of aficionados. The lurking menace of "A Night in the Bell Inn," the gloom and violence of "The Village Bully" and "The Legend of Dunablane," and the adversaries of "The Dead Sexton" and "They Mysterious Lodger" leave a define impression in the memory of the connoisseur. August Derleth said of Le Fanu that in the literature of the British Isles he is as much the father of a tradition as Edgar Allan Poe is in the United States and that some of the greatest names in the literature of the weird in Britain are in his tradition. Of his method, he observed: "Le Fanu begins most of his tales with an almost disarming leisureliness, but in so doing, he effects a very good picture of his setting. Deliberation in the narrative of the spectral is rather a virtue than otherwise. His phantoms are unmistakable ghosts; there is nothing tenuous about them; they are well-motivated if not always well-behaved apparitions, who have appeared for a definitive purpose, and, however deliberate they may be in the accomplishing of it, they are seldom thwarted." As a teller of twilight tales, J. Sheridan Le Fanu demonstrates his admirable simplicity, his scorn for mere devices, his feeling for the unearthly, reaching those heights which justify his position as the formative master of the old-fashioned ghost story following the Gothic vogue in English literature. Literature, Fiction, Horror, Supernatural. aslic.…

Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, top edge gilt, tissue-protected frontis., xxxii, 265 pp. Fine. From Publishers' Preface: For the first time an unpublished manuscript furnishes the subject matter. The manuscript is the memoir of Daniel Harmon Brush who, at the age of 8, migrated from New York state to southern Illinois in 1820. The memoir was apparently written during his old age for the younger members of the family and their descendants, and not for publication. There is no information as to how the manuscript drifted out of the possession of of Brush's descendants. All that is known is the statement of the dealer in rare books from whom it was purchased that it had been in their stock for the past dozen or more years. The manuscript is far too long for our format, and many deletions have been necessary. The method followed in deleting was to preserve all portions that told of the activities of Brush personally, and what influence he had upon the economic and cultural developments of southern Illinois. Starting from zero at the age of twelve, he became a prosperous business man, interested in public affairs. Today he would be known as one of our "leading citizens" -- leading in business ability, holding the confidence of the public, and leading in public undertakings to which he contributed generously in time and money. His story is not exciting, but it gives a good picture of how the enterprise and character of a pioneer were reflected in the growth and character of the community as they both grew up together. The majority of the deletions were family letters and intimate incidents that would be of little interest to the general reader. There is a portion, however, that would have been amusing had it not been so prolific. That covered the political controversies between Brush, a Whig almost alone in the district, and the democrats with their southern sympathies. The leaders of the opposition were Alexander M. Jenkins, Brush's brother-in-law, and John A. Logan, Sr., at that time active in returning runaway slaves to their "rightful" owners. Mr. Logan's son John at the outbreak of the Civil War, joined the federal army and was in time appointed a Major General, the only one so honored who was not a West Pointer. After the war he returned to politics and eventually was one of the senators from Illinois. In his memoir Brush included all the handbills of defamation circulated by his enemies and his own replying handbills and speeches. In most of the elections Brush won, but his care in saving all documents relating to his campaigns suggests that he felt keenly his enemies' accusations and included them all in his memoir to establish his innocence. As a sample of rough and ready campaigning, it is a masterpiece and establishes a precedent for the smearing technique in fashion during some of our recent national campaigns. Illinois, American Biography, Americana, U.S.-iana, U. S. History, American History. yalic. …

Octavo, burgundy cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, top edge gilt, xlix, 626 pp. Fine. From Publishers' Preface: For this year's volume of the Lakeside Classics the publishers are presenting their readers with the personal narrative of General George A. Custer. It is a story of the part played by the United States Cavalry, under the command of this brilliant and colorful leader, in the clashes between the settlers and the Plains Indians resulting in the final subjugation of the latter. The publishers believe no history of the West would be complete without it and that its readers will enjoy it more fully if they orient themselves by reading Dr. Quaife's Historical Introduction. The map facing the first chapter, drawn by Mrs. Robert K. Wyant from data supplied by him, will help serve this purpose. American Biography, Western Americana, American West, American History, United States History, U. S. History, Americana, U.S.-iana. yalic.…

Condizione: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original nutmeg and brick red cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover, leaf patterned end papers. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 344 printed pages of text illustrated with many engravings, does not have a map laid in (as some copies do). Light rubbing across the spine ends, contents in Fine condition, lovely copy. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [History].…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK RED LEATHER, MCM111 or January 1903, 1st Limited Edition of 30. VG-. AS-IS, Scuff & rub to Spine edges, WITH OVER 50 FULL PAGE Illustrations, SAME 3 FRONTISPIECES WITH TISSUE GUARD THE RAVEN FROM ORIGINAL DRAWING ALBERT EDWARD STERNER, Preface to POEMS, MARBLELIZED red white Endpapers, Inner Hinges Starting Slightly, INTRODUCTION TO POEMS LITE RUB & WEAR, RED LEATHER SPINE CVR & TIPS OF COVER WITH BEIGE MARBLELIZING & GOLD GILT TRIM ON FRONT TINY EDGE RUB, RAISED BANDS ON RED LEATHER SPINE CVR WITH GOLD GILT , VOL X OR 10 ONLY, POEMS , PART OF SET OF 10 VOLS. FRONTISPIECE BY ALBERT EDWARD STERNER, Here is a very interesting and hard to find copy of "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" Volume X ONLY, ,End of Book Bibliography, GENERAL INDEX ETC, 314 PGS, & HERE ENDS THE FIRST Complete & TRUE EDITION OF WORKS OF Edgar Allan Poe. GOLD GILT TO OUTER PGS TOP EDGE, gold floral decorations to spine CVR. MANUSCRIPT EDITION Printed on Hand-Maded Japan Vellum, PRINTED AT R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 314 PGS, Raised bands on spine cvr WITH GOLD GILT.…