Herbert a Wise Phyllis Fraser (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Modern Library, 1972. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1944 Hardcover copy with age wear, no dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Decorative boards, lacking the dust jacket. Uneven tanning to the pages. Hinges cracked, and an owner name to the front pastedown endpaper. ; 1080 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Hardcover with dustjacket, 52 stories, over 1000 pages, the book has a damp-mark on the rear cover that has altered the color of the cloth a bit, this flaw has done no other damage and the only other remarkable flaw is mild inward-turning to the spine-ends, the binding is clean and bright overall and the contents are fine, the jacket has the same moderate discoloration on the rear panel as the book and It also has some edge-wear to the corners and spine-ends, the jacket remains presentable and is clean, the original price (2.95) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1080pp. Wartime publication hb with blue spine over tan boards, haunted house desing on front cover. Top edge blue. Missing DJ but contents VG.

Condition: Good. 1947. First Edition. 832 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Modern Library Giant - G72. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. Hardcover with dust jacket, stated 1944 Edition. Minor wear to board edges yet clean, binding solid, owner name stamped to ffep, interior text clean. Dust jacket moderately chipped along edges, small closed tear to lower front jacket hinge, 2.5' closed tear to lower rear hinge, closed tear at lower rear fore-edge corner that runs 3/4 of the way up the rear jacket cover. Very Good copy in Fair dust jacket.

HARDBACK ORANGE. General wear, lightly bumped spine and corners, vertical crease down cover, green coloured top edge DATE PUBLISHED: 1944 EDITION: 1080.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. Reprint, 832pp, hardcover, 8vo, bound in maroon cloth, silver lettered, with pictorial dust jacket designed by STEIN - unclipped but with wear at extremities, book in very good condition, Hammond, Hammond & Co., London, 1972. * over 50 tales of terror and supernatural.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprint of this anthology that reads like a who's who of classic horror, 8vo, 832pp, VG+ Copy in VG+ DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chips and tears around the edges of the jacket. Clean boards, firm binding. Former owner's name on the front endpaper. Pages unmarked. Not ex-library, no stickers. Ships in a box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The spine in slightly lightened. There is a pen name and date to the ffep. Small amount of foxing contained to the prelims and page edges. The jacket has small amounts of chipping to the head of the spine and is not price clipped. For contents see images. Thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Stein (illustrator). Reprint hardback with dustjacket. DJ is a little chipped to edges at spine and very slightly faded to spine. Internally clean. Very good / good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. VG original black cloth, edges lightly foxed. One of the best anthologies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. VG+ in VG+ DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Superb collection representing the masters of the genre.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (21s net), bumped and with creases. Black cloth, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a light grey topstain, soiled at the endpapers, clean otherwise. An anthology featuring works from the likes of Poe, Bierce, Wells, Saki, Kipling, James, Sayers, Faulkner, Hemingway, Dinesen, among others.

Hammond, Hammond & Co.London 1947. 832 pp. Publisher's cloth, no jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. George Salte (illustrator). First ML Edition. States 'First Modern Library Giant Edition' on copyright page. An anthology including the famous "Leiningen and the Ants," "The Most Dangerous Game," and 50 other stories with stunning jacket art by George Salter. Book is very good, with p/o name on verso of free endpaper, professionally removed on request. Jacket is also very good, clean and bright, but price clipped, with price sticker of Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Department store. Archival Mylar jacket cover included.

832 pp, previous owner's name obscured by black marker on half-title, edges foxed, d/j edges worn, small loss to top edge of d/j rear, else very good copy in like, illustrated d/j. First published 1947.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. First Thus. First Modern Library Edition. 1944. Modern Library; Random House, NY. Very Good Hardcover. Jacket missing. Tan cloth boards w/ greenish cast & red accent. Red oval publisher device to front board. Red spine panel w/ gilt lettering. Very clean boards. Some rubbing & fading to spine. Bit of cracking to top of spine w/ mull showing. Binding solid & square. 1080 pp. 6x8x2. Printed by H. Wolff. Major horror & Gothic anthology edited by Herbert A. Wise & Phyllis Fraser collecting 52 stories from Poe, Lovecraft, Stoker, Collins, M.R. James, Wharton, Jacobs, de Maupassant, Stevenson, & Onions. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The book is bound in decorative boards with a black spine. All clean & bright. There is very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. The binding is tight, the contents are clean & unmarked. States: "First Printing". Previous owner's ink dedication on the front endpaper, dated Aug. 19/44. The dust jacket is price clipped & has 2 cm chips off the spine tips & cover corners, with wear along the spine edges & edges of the flaps. FAIR.

First Edition. GREAT TALES OF TERROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL, Random House, 1944, first edition, near fine in worn and chipped (mostly at the spine extremities) Salter color pictorial dust-wrapper with contributions by Thomas Hardy, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Isak Dinesen, John Collier, M. R. James, Henry James, E. F. Benson, Fritz-James O'Brien, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, et.al.

1st Printing. Thick 8vo. [xx] + 1080pp. Dec. title page. From the library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, sl. shaken, original cloth rubbed and sl. chipped to spine, in browned and lightly soiled d/w. chipped and wormed with some loss and repaired in parts to verso. Includes Poe, Bierce, Machen, Hemingway, de la Mare, Kipling, Henry James, Wells, . Le Fanu, Dinesen, Woollcott, Saki, Sayers etc. US$111.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Herbert A. Wise(Editor) Phyllis Fraser(Editor) George Walter(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (First Edition) A firm copy. Minor foxing to cloth. Minor wear. Price clipped. A bright jacket. Small chips to edges and rubbing to spine. In clear protective cover. First Printing, stated. When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers"). Gray and black pictorial cloth. Blue stained top edge. Smooth finish to paper. BOOK.