Nesbit Edith and Others (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. The first book appearance of Edith Nesbit's last short story, written on her death bed, according to the preface. These stories were printed previously in The Daily Herald. Mostly classic tales, many supernatural, such as Lord Lytton's "The Haunted and the Haunters." Also selects Shiel's "Many a Tear" and Poe's "Masque of Red Death" - which appears to be illustrated on the dust jacket. The contribution from Nesbit is titled "A Christmas Criminal" about a boy who decides to steal to provide his family a Christmas meal. Stain to brown cloth book, not affecting what must be a very scarce dust jacket.…

16.3x12.3 (6.5x4.75 inches), pp. [1-20] (not paginated), illustrations, pictorial self wrappers, sewn. First edition, first printing. A charming book of Christmas poems with chromolithographic illustrations on every page. Gift inscription on half title page. A very good copy. (#178912).

First Edition. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LADY FRANCES CARFAX (SHERLOCK HOLMES) in The Strand / George Newnes, 1911, first edition, light wear to the spine extremities, else just about vg in the publishers original pictorial cloth with all edges gold-gilt. Also contains original contributions by H. G. Wells (FLOOR GAMES); P. G. Wodehouse (THE BEST SAUCE, HELPING FREDDIE, POTS OF MONEY, THREE FROM DUNSTERVILLE); W. W. Jacobs, Richard Marsh, Arthur Morrison, Edith Nesbit (THE WONDERFUL GARDEN), et.al. …