Nesbit E Dith (14 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: good. 270 pages; RL:5.4; 7-5/8" tall; color il on front of red cover; reading crease to spine & corners of covers; wear to extrems of cover; gifter's inscription inside front cover. Charles Gillies, cover il (illustrator). Paperback.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First edition. Nesbit, E(dith). TALES OF TERROR. London: Methuen, 1983. First Edition. As-new cloth in As-new dustwrapper. Edited, with an introduction by Hugh Lamb. Seven weird tales by an author best known for her children's books about "the railroad children" but equally grand at supernatural horror. Illustrated with line drawings by Sue Sitt, who has done a delightful job of imitating the Victorian magazine illustration style for such as The Strand, magazines that E. Nesbit sold such tales. Sue Sitt (illustrator).…

Expanded (and first hardcover)edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects twenty-one stories with introduction and bibliography of story sources by Lamb. An expansion of Lamb's earlier collection of Nesbit's horror fiction, IN THE DARK: TALES OF TERROR, published as an Equation paperback in 1988. "A noteworthy modern collection of Nesbit's weird fiction." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-72. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (11417).…

ff. [16]. Each page with a lithographed illustration. Publisher's stiff paper covers, front and rear with chromolithographed illustrations, the covers now dusty and slightly marked, the interior with some marginal marking, the half-title with the contemporary pencil inscription - ' In remembrance of dear little Billy ' over the illustration of a deceased bird, on it's back in the snow. *Victorian mawk but rather poignant with the inscription. COPAC does not record a copy in any UK academic library, very surprising.…

1st edition. x, 143, [5] pp. Adverts last 4 pages. 12mo. General wear. Modest foxing to end papers. A VG copy. Green cloth binding with an extensive floral motif gilt stamping.

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 short 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). …

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-309 [310, blank] [311-312: ads] 24 page catalog inserted to rear "A Complete Catalog of the Publications of Alston Rivers," frontis and eleven inserted plates by Spenser Pryse, title page printed in orange and black, original red cloth, spine and front cover stamped in gold. Expansion of short story "The Head" (collected in FEAR [1910]). Published in the U.S. (by Doubleday) as THE HOUSE WITH NO ADDRESS. Previous owner's gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper, foxing throughout, rear hinge cracked, rubbing to covers and spine, a good sound copy. Uncommon. (13994).…

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 eternal 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).…

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 short 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). …

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).…

8vo. xii, 296 pp., plus 8 pp. publisher's ads. Frontisp., numerous plates. Red pictorial publisher's cloth, gilt illustration & white lettering on front cover, spine (minor scuffing, edgewear, spine slightly cocked), still G copy. Early Canadian printing of this first title in the Bastable Children series by Nesbit, as the characters carry out a number of schemes set against the backdrop of their father's failed business. This was the novel which enabled Nesbit to receive the highest royalties she had ever earned, and led to her commission by the Strand magazine to create her series of enduring fantasy stories.…

First edition. 8vo, ix, [1], 88pp, 16pp (publisher's ads). Original pink cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations. Binding, title-page, and decorations by Laurence Housman. London, John Lane; Chicago, E. C. McClurg and Co. One of 750 copies. Spine darkened, edges of boards faded. Internally clean.…

[2], 275 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First Danish Edition. First Danish Edition. [2], 275 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A very nice copy of the Danish Edition of The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904), with presentation "With the compliments of the translator," from the library of perennially popular children's author Edith Nesbit, with her bookplate. Half calf and marbled boards, spine label gilt, marbled endpapers. Auithor?s pictorial bookplate. Some rubbing at spine and tips, internally fine.…