Anonymously edited (47 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ship…

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,…

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 t…

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.…

First edition. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. 1023-page anthology with fifty stories by Ruby M. Ayres, Cameron Blake, Victor Bridges. John Buchan, Reginald Campbell, Leslie Charteris, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, and others. [Reference: Contento and Greenberg, Index to Crime…

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…

Zustand: A fine copy, unread. (29235). First U.S. edition. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ballantine Books 215. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding (science fiction set in the ancient world), "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham (feminist science fiction set in a dystopian fut…

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 unusua…

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…

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 i…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First American Edition. 21 horror stories, originally broadcast on a BBC radio program called "Nightmares". Authors include Algernon Blackwood, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Ernest Betts, Marjorie Bowen, H. De vere Stacpoole, Noel Strea…

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 (tw…

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…

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 si…

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 editio…

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 foxi…