Haining Peter Gilbert (13 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Back corner creased.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 255pp. First paperback edition. Very Good+++. Inventive, whimsical, and witty writings from the pages of defunct magazines of a bygone era.

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Introduction by Peter Haining; My Maiden Brief; The Poisoned Postage Stamp; Maxwell and I; TheTriumph of Vice; Jones' Victoria Cross; Diamonds; An Elixir of Love; Tom Poulton's Joke; Creatures of Impulse; The Wicked World; Wide Awake; Comedy and Tragedy; Foggerty's Fairy; The Burglar's Story; The Finger of Fate; Little Mim; Angela; The Fairy's Dilemma; The Lady in the Plaid Shawl; and Trial by Jury. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. 8vo. pp 255. Large format paperback. ISBN: 1933993308 Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Bab (illustrator). 500gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. James McBryde; Gilbert James; M. Fitzgerald; John Mackay; George Cruickshank; Charles De Mornay (illustrator). First American Edition. Hardcover, quarto, 128pp. First American edition - this was first published as "Book of the Supernatural" (London: W. Foulsham, 1979). In publisher's mustard-colored boards, having a black cloth spine with gold lettering. Decorative dust jacket in brown and gold depicting a gothic door with an "M.R. James" nameplate. CONDITION: Fine book in Near Fine dust jacket, which is not price-clipped, but has some surface scratches. ** An interesting collection of ghost stories and short pieces about their history. Includes a preface by Sir John Betjeman, the British Poet Laureate from 1972 to 1984, ghost stories from M.R. James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and an introduction by the well-known horror story compiler, Peter Haining. ** M.R. James told his ghost stories on Christmas Eve to members of the "Chit Chat Club" at King's College, Cambridge. The first such gathering in 1893 was so well received that he was invited to repeat the performance every year on Christmas Eve. The tales are well-wrought "Victorian" ghost stories with old-fashioned notions of evil spirits, dire forebodings etc - one imagines them being told by candlelight with the narrator's back to an open fireplace, and a winter storm rattling the window panes. After a few years keeping this tradition, his friends persuaded him to publish those stories, which became his first and most famous collection, "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" (1904).(AJ). Book.

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original light toffee paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 255 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations. Minimal dust marking to the closed page edges, small name label to the front end paper. Near Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with light rubs and creases, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0860512002 GILBERT W. S. & A. SULLIVAN.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!