Nesbit E Dith Mrs Hubert Bland (5 results)
- More images
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1999
- Hardcover
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ILAB
Octavo, pictorial cloth. Later edition. An attractive edition of a classic children's book. A fine copy in paper slipcase without dust jacket as issued. (#176805).
- More images
Published by Alston Rivers, London, 1909
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ILAB
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-309 [310, blank] [311-312: ads] + a 24-page publisher's catalogue dated Autumn 1908 inserted at rear, twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Spenser Pryse, title page printed in orange and black, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Expansion of sh…ort story "The Head" (collected in FEAR [1910]). Published in the U.S. (by Doubleday) as THE HOUSE WITH NO ADDRESS. A macabre story in which a woman becomes a professional dancer in London and hides away from her husband in a secret apartment. She dances Salome's dance one night with a real head in her hands -- that of her husband who she has killed. Previous owner's gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper, foxing throughout, rear hinge cracked, rubbing to covers and spine, a sound, good copy. (#137047).
Published by Dodd, New York, 1912
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ILAB
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-419 [420: blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain in 1911 as DORMANT. Romantic fantasy of the rejuvenation of a girl who has been in suspended animation for fifty years. "A strange hybrid novel relating to the search for etern…al youth by occult and scientific means; closer to Nesbit's children's fantasies than to her normal style of ghost fiction." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 380. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-229. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-267. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1229. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 680. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 84. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 300. Bleiler (1978), p. 147. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). A nice, clean, very good copy. An uncommon book. (#74251).
- More images
Published by Alston Rivers, London, 1909
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ILAB
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-309 [310, blank] [311-312: ads] + a 24-page publisher's catalogue dated Autumn 1908 inserted at rear, twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Spenser Pryse, title page printed in orange and black, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Expansion of sh…ort story "The Head" (collected in FEAR [1910]). Published in the U.S. (by Doubleday) as THE HOUSE WITH NO ADDRESS. A macabre story in which a woman becomes a professional dancer in London and hides away from her husband in a secret apartment. She dances Salome's dance one night with a real head in her hands -- that of her husband who she has killed. Light foxing to text block and page edges (less than usual for this book), a nearly fine copy with bright cover stamping. (#170889).
- More images
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1908
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ILAB
Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-296 [297] [298: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], eight inserted plates with illustrations by H. R. Millar, original pictorial gray cloth, front panel stamped in green, orange, white and black, spine panel stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. The adventures of four children who find a ring in a great old… house in England, which they pretend is a magic ring and discover, to their astonishment, that it really is. "This is the longest, best-developed, and most imaginative of Nesbit's fantasies ." - Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 729. "The most colorful and ingenious of Nesbit's fantasies." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-268. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), pp. 680-1. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 483-5. Bleiler (1948), p. 209. Reginald 10613. Cloth of spine panel a bit dusty, some tanning to endpapers and page edges, a very good copy with bright cover stamping. (#130768).
