Anonymously Edited Anthology (38 results)

paperback. Condition: 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).

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 and Mystery Anthologies, pp. 547-48]. A fair reading copy, two tiny wormholes to front cover, wear to cloth at corners, spine sun faded, cloth split at lower rear spine, damp stain to lower spine and rear edges, patchy fading to cloth edges. (23034).

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).

Condition: 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 future), and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake (a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan). Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY (1958). According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-78. Reginald 13447].

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).

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, 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).

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).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5[6] 7 [8] 9-332 [note: title leaf is an inserted leaf conjugate with frontispiece, both of which are included in the publisher's pagination], 23 inserted plates including frontispiece, original pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gray, black and gold. First edition. Nineteen short stories, most with historical settings. "The Crimson Chamber" and "A Night in the Old Oak Chamber" are rationalized ghost stories. "The Forlorn Shop" is a novelette of crime. Free endpapers tanned, preliminaries and fore-edge of text block foxed, else a fine copy of a handsome book. (#113147).

Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v] 6 [25] 26-334 [note: text complete despite gap in pagination, flyleaves at front and rear, engraved frontispiece by George B. Ellis after a painting by R. W. Buss, head and tailpieces in text, original decorated cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in blind, First edition? The contents page lists story titles and chapter titles indiscriminately, thus giving the false impression that this volume contains some forty stories. The actual contents are "Two Millionaires" (novella by Sarah Fry with German setting), "'I Owe You Nothing, Sir'" (short story among English high society), "Notes of a Journey Across the Isthmus of Panama" (sketch), "The Two Passports" (short story with an intercalated adventure tale set during the Napoleonic wars), "Australia and Van Diemen's Land" (long sketch), "The Fairy Cup" (a short fairy tale by Alfred Crowquill) "The White Swallow" (novelette set among American Indians), "Fowling in Faroe and Shetland" (sketch of Scottish rural life), "A Fuqueer's Curse" (humorous story about an Indian fakir), "The Deserts of Africa" (long geographical sketch), "Life in an Indiaman" (naval novelette), "The Dealer in Wisdom" (Arabian Nights story with a dollop of fantasy), "The Key of the Street" (sketch about being a hobo for a night in London). The material, all with exotic or foreign settings, is oddly at variance with the book's title, which (as the preface explains) alludes to the entrepreneurialism of the New Englander. Wright, American Fiction 1851-1875, cites Wentworth & Co. as the primary imprint, noting that this book was also issued by Dayton & Wentworth (as in the present copy); he notes subsequent re-titled editions by Wentworth & Co. (1856) and by Wentworth and Company (1857). The book is copyright 1855 by Dayton and Wentworth. The absence of Dayton from the three other imprints, two of which were obviously later, suggests that Dayton and Wentworth was the original imprint. This book appears to be of British, not American, origin. Wright (II) 2828. Re-cased in the original cloth with new headbands and new endpapers, light scattered foxing, else a very good copy. (#114902).

Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-307 [308: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original terra cotta cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream coated endpapers. First edition. Collects fourteen stories by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Louise Chandler Moulton, and others. "The Skeleton at the Banquet" is a rather clever tale of madness. "The Two Ghosts of New London Turnpike" is a ghost story. "A Night in the Sewers," after showing how the kid gloves worn by ladies are made from rat skins, takes the protagonist and his new terrier into the Paris sewers to go ratting with a professional. Ignoring his warning that it brings bad luck to chase after a certain white rat, the protagonist gets lost, passes out after smoking tobacco laced with opium and manages to escape only after tying a message to the collar of his dog, which he passes through a grating where the sewer lets out into the river. Wright (II) 2386. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips, some scattered foxing, a very good copy. A nice copy of an uncommon book. (#160244).

Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-404 [405-408: ads] + 36-page undated publisher's catalogue at rear, four inserted plates, original pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, all edges untrimmed, yellow coated endpapers. Second printing. "First published in 1884, SOLDIERS' STORIES AND SAILORS' YARNS collects 24 stories narrated by British military, naval, and medical officers set in a variety of exotic locations, including Africa, India, and South America. The stories are characterized by standard adventure story elements, including duels, shipwrecks, and various crimes, but three stories contain fantastic elements. Set in India, 'The Ghost in the Dak Bungalow' is supposedly a ghoul, the spirit of a notorious dead bandit chief, but a skeptical officer's efforts reveal the perpetrator of the haunting is actually a hyena. In 'A Spectre in a Mess-Room,' the ghost of a military veterinarian's wife who died during childbirth tries to warn a doctor that her grief-stricken husband is dying of a drug overdose. 'Telegraphy Extraordinary' qualifies as science fiction and involves a doctor who develops a means of sending messages across vast distances using snails and galvanic batteries. Aside from some unfortunate racial stereotypes typical of the period, the tales in SOLDIERS' STORIES AND SAILORS' YARNS are well-told and contain significant detail about their various settings, the local cultures, and aspects of military life" (Boyd White). A very good copy. (#169895).

Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-224 [note: first leaf is a blank], original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as MY GRIMMEST NIGHTMARE (1935). Original anthology with twenty-two stories by Cynthia Asquith, Algernon Blackwood, Marjorie Bowen, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Noel Langley, Theodora Benson, and others. The stories in this collection were originally broadcast in 1934 on the BBC program "Nightmares" produced by Cecil Madden. The compilation of the volume is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Cynthia Asquith. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-1. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 59. Bleiler (1978), p. 12. Reginald 10548. A bright, nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with mild rubbing at edges and just a touch of dust soiling. (#154891).

First edition. Octavo, original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. 550-page anthology with nineteen stories by Peter Cheyney, Agatha Christie, Freeman Will Crofts, Philip MacDonald, Ellery Queen, John Rhode, E. C. Vivian, and others. Follow up volume to MY BEST DETECTIVE STORY. Christmas 1941 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Gold lettering on spine dull, hairline crack along inner front hinge, a tight, clean, very good copy in a very good printed dust jacket with mild shelf wear to spine ends, upper edges and corner tips, internal tape mends along top edges, and some overall dust soiling. Uncommon in jacket. (22535).