Prichard Kate and Hesketh E (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Very Fine original fine-grain black cloth, red end-papers, in Very Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket art by Deborah-McMillion-Nering. Limited edition of 500 copies. Originally published under the pen name 'E. and H. Heron' in Pearson's Ma gazine in 1898 and 1899, whereupon the tales were then collected into book form as Ghosts: The Experiences of Flaxman Low (1899) under the author's real names.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. NEW UK HARDBACK. LIMITED to 200 copies. 196/200. 72 illustrations by E.B. MINNS. Introduction by RICHARD DALBY. Cover Artwork by ANDREW KING. NO DJ, as Published. NO remainder mark. | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Copy 172 of a limitation of 200 copies published. Collects twelve Flaxman stories. Cover illustration by Andrew King. Seventy-two illustrations by B.E. Minns. A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. B.E. Minns (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Third impression of the Pearson Cheap edition, originally published in 1916 and written by Prichard and his mother. The book comprises several experiences of Flaxman Low, credited as being the first psychic detective. The stories had been previously published in periodicals and collected in 1899's The Experiences of Flaxman Low, of which this current volume contains selections only. The book is Near Fine in publisher's red cloth, with no fading or marking. There is some bumping and minor wear to the extremities. Very good dust jacket. The jacket is lovely, bright and crisp, with areas of modest wear and damage as befits an inexpensively produced 100-year-old book. There is no significant loss to the jacket at all. It is a lovely copy of a delicate book. Note that, despite Pearson's assertion on the spine, these stories are pure fiction, and delightful at that. …

First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 117. Two pages of adverts at rear. Grey cloth decorated and lettered in black. Six stories of the occult detective Flaxman Low.On the front free endpaper is what seems to be a Japanese ownership inscription and on the title-page is a Japanese inkstamp. Very good. No dustwrapper.…

Condition: Fair. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1916. Reissue of the 1899 Edition (sometimes seen described as a Second Edition or Impression), containing only the first six of that edition's twelve stories. 12mo; 117pp + publisher's imprint & 2pp ads. Publisher's blue-gray cloth with dark blue/black lettering, Boards heavily rubbed and pushed along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a good amount of soiling / smudging to surface and scuffing down joints. Front joint cracked. Half title, full title, and a couple interior pages cleanly separated but laid in, with a few other interior pages close to the same. Opens easily between gatherings with occasional gaps between. Binding feels a bit loose but otherwise holding. Pages toned and brittle, but unmarked. Rough copy, but complete. Collection of stories following the adventures of Flaxman Low -- fiction's first Psychic Detective -- published under pseudonym by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard. The stories originally appeared in Pearson's Magazine from 1898 - 1899, with a first book collection by Pearson in 1899. [Bleiler Supernatural 799].…