Colin De La Mare Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd printing of the 'cheap edition', bound in gray cloth with red spine lettering. Intro by Walter De La Mare. 8vo size, 469 pp. A Very Good copy, spine is faded, small rub marks to the corners. A few tiny dust spots to the contents but otherwise unmarked. 18 stories by Blackwood, Dunsany, Hodgson, M.R. James and many others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. From the library of Stanley Wiater. Green cloth with gilt titling, rubbed to edges, with large pale dampstain and a few small spots to rear panel. Spine square. Binding sound. All that remains of the jacket is the rear inner flap, laid-in (bearing a publisher's announcement for 'The Vampire: His Kith and Kin' by Montague Summers). Wiater's bookplate at FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. The Ghost Book or They Walk Again by Colin De La Mare (Editor) A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners. Clean cover and interior. Minor sunning to upper spine. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown. Not price-clipped. A bright pictorial jacket with loss to upper spine and front panel and loss to lower spine and front flap-fold. Mild wrinkling to lower front flap-fold. In clear protective cover. First Cheap Edition 1932. Second Impression, reprinted October 1934, stated. First published April 1932. Gray cloth with red lettering to spine. 469 pages. Walter de la Mare(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. The Ghost Book or They Walk Again by Colin De La Mare (Editor) Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Stated first cheap edition MCMXXXII. Original black cloth with white lettering to spine. 467 pages. Walter de la Mare(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Cheap edition. First cheap edition, second impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. Introduction by Walter De La Mare. Book very good; jacket a little rubbed and creased at extremities. Book.

FIRST EDITION, pp. 469, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettering ghostly white, top edge sanguine, dustjacket a little nicked, some internal paper repair, principally to a horizontal tear at head of backstrip panel, the glorious design to the front panel by Mabel Lapthorn (see below) in excellent shape, very good. A scarce book, this copy inscribed by the editor on the flyleaf: 'To R.N.G-A., With love and gratitude from Colin, May 4th 1931'. The recipient was Robert North Green-Armytage, a barrister and book-collector from Bath - whose collecting interests included Walter de la Mare, and who had cultivated a friendship with the family. The choice of poems in Faber's 1954 'Selected Poems' of Walter de la Mare' was made by Green-Armytage, whose other literary connections included being the uncle of Vivien Greene. Laid in, within its original envelope, is a 2pp. autograph letter from Colin de la Mare to the same, on the headed paper of his parents' home at Hill House in Taplow, thanking Green-Armytage for the invitation to speak at the Bath Preservation Society - joking (presumably) that he will only commit to such engagements if 'there is a Duke in the chair', and admitting that the idea caused him alarm, and 'I might have disgraced you'. He closes by inviting Green-Armytage to come to London to see Elisabeth Bergner in the film 'Der Traumende Mund', calling her 'the finest actress that I have ever seen', and with a post-scriptum in reference to the recipient's son, Adrian ('ask him to put me on to something "hot"!') - the latter a Merton friend of Louis MacNeice, and the author of a couple of books on religious themes. Colin de la Mare was Walter de la Mare's youngest son, aged only 25 when he edited this highly-regarded anthology - his relative youth may in part explain his reluctance towards public speaking. It is his only published literary work, to which he contributes a slender prefatory note, largely in acknowledgement, followed by his father's more substantial 23pp. exposition on its theme. Walter de la Mare also provides the contribution 'All Hallows'; other contributors include M.R. James, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Wharton, E.F. Benson, Richard Middleton, J.D. Beresford, Oliver Onions, et al. The editor's elder brother Richard was for many years principal director at the book's publisher. Mabel Dickinson Lapthorn, the dustjacket designer, was a London-based artist, who gained a reputation for her film posters, and for her book cover-designs in England (these numbering only a few) and Amsterdam - where she was particularly associated with the work of Sigrid Undset for publisher J.M. Meulenhoff.…