Marsh Richard Pseud Bernard Heldmann (6 results)

8vo, pp. 126. Half-bound marble boards, half-title bound in, original front wrapper pasted to front pastedown. Printed in double columns. Spine label. Contents browned, portion of (later) spine label missing, but a well preserved copy. Rebound popular edition. First published by Methuen in 1902. The prolific 'Richard Marsh'/Richard Heldmann [1857-1915] wrote in a wide variety of genres, but is now best remembered for his weird and supernatural fiction -- he was the author of The Beetle (1897), a best-seller published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula. His grandson was the modern master of weird fiction, Robert Aickman. The Twickenham Peerage is one of Marsh's more conventional tales: an impoverished aristocrat needs money to enable him to marry. Scarce in this cheap and flimsily made edition.

A clean,tight ,sound copy of the First Edition in original publishers cloth,lettered in white to the front board but with spine lettering erased original black coated endpapers, Crown 8vo.vi.317pps.+2pp advert leaf. Tissue guarded frontispiece and one other plate by Harold Copping. Neat inscription to half title dated Xmas 1903 Heldmanns writing career, encouraged by G.A.Henty came to an abrupt end in 1883 when he was sucessfully charged and prosecuted for forgery. He re-emerged as Richard Marsh and famously went on to write "The Beetle" and many other novels & short stories. [See Minna Vuohelainen's VFR Guide No35].

An undated early 1900's "Cheap" Reprint. 8vo.(7"x5") 314 pps. red blind stamped bds. (Click on illustration) Inscription to paste down dated 1944 no endpapers as issued final leaf of text forming the paste down. A clean sound copy of a scarce title. (This edn not listed in COPAC.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's catalogue at end. Original blue cloth. The adventures of one of Marsh's most intriguing characters, Miss Judith Lee, a young teacher of deaf pupils whose lip-reading ability involves her with mysteries that she solves by acting as a detective. Spine a little dulled and rubbed, minor marking, overall a very good copy. The adventures of one of Marsh's most intriguing characters, Miss Judith Lee, a young teacher of deaf pupils whose lip-reading ability involves her with mysteries that she solves by acting as a detective. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's catalogue at end dated March 1905. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. One of the obscurer titles by the author of The Beetle. Hubin-listed. Covers slightly mottled, otherwise a very good copy. One of the obscurer titles by the author of The Beetle. Hubin-listed. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Plates. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. The first edition of Marsh's horror novel in which a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian entity exerts a hypnotic influence over his victims, leading to a series of strange and terrifying events in 1890s London. The novel unfolds through four narrators, each recounting their harrowing encounter with "the Beetle." The novel is often cited as a quintessential example of fin de siècle Gothic fiction, embodying the era's anxieties and. narrative innovations. Upon release, it was a sensation, and by 1913 it had gone through fifteen printings. Minor toning to margins; some rubbing and bumping to edges, cloth slightly softened at head of spine. Book.