Robert Paye Marjorie Bowen (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. "I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company." "Very little human company," she replied.On a moonlit night, a man dressed as the Devil arrives at the door of the ill-omened Holcot Grange the hereditary owner of the manor which has been uninhabited for two generations, he has come to escape his past and proceeds to reclaim his seat. But the tenants are not passive to his new tenure. As he is enthralled by the aura of one of the current denizens, the otherworldly Julia Roseingrave, a sultry romance begins to bubble, overlooked always by the shadow of conflict and the spectre of death.A deliciously atmospheric novella blending witchcraft and superstition with the Gothic trappings of a cursed love, this edition will also be complete with a number of companion short stories by Marjorie Bowen.…

Paperback. Condition: New. "I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company." "Very little human company," she replied.On a moonlit night, a man dressed as the Devil arrives at the door of the ill-omened Holcot Grange the hereditary owner of the manor which has been uninhabited for two generations, he has come to escape his past and proceeds to reclaim his seat. But the tenants are not passive to his new tenure. As he is enthralled by the aura of one of the current denizens, the otherworldly Julia Roseingrave, a sultry romance begins to bubble, overlooked always by the shadow of conflict and the spectre of death.A deliciously atmospheric novella blending witchcraft and superstition with the Gothic trappings of a cursed love, this edition will also be complete with a number of companion short stories by Marjorie Bowen.…

Paperback. Condition: New. "I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company." "Very little human company," she replied.On a moonlit night, a man dressed as the Devil arrives at the door of the ill-omened Holcot Grange the hereditary owner of the manor which has been uninhabited for two generations, he has come to escape his past and proceeds to reclaim his seat. But the tenants are not passive to his new tenure. As he is enthralled by the aura of one of the current denizens, the otherworldly Julia Roseingrave, a sultry romance begins to bubble, overlooked always by the shadow of conflict and the spectre of death.A deliciously atmospheric novella blending witchcraft and superstition with the Gothic trappings of a cursed love, this edition will also be complete with a number of companion short stories by Marjorie Bowen.…

Paperback. Condition: New. "I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company." "Very little human company," she replied.On a moonlit night, a man dressed as the Devil arrives at the door of the ill-omened Holcot Grange the hereditary owner of the manor which has been uninhabited for two generations, he has come to escape his past and proceeds to reclaim his seat. But the tenants are not passive to his new tenure. As he is enthralled by the aura of one of the current denizens, the otherworldly Julia Roseingrave, a sultry romance begins to bubble, overlooked always by the shadow of conflict and the spectre of death.A deliciously atmospheric novella blending witchcraft and superstition with the Gothic trappings of a cursed love, this edition will also be complete with a number of companion short stories by Marjorie Bowen.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Owners signatures in pencil on free end paper, natural toning to pages, spine a bit faded, very good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small octavo, decorated paperback, 158, (1). By George R. Preedy, pseudonym of Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long. Extremely rare first edition of a short story by Margaret Vere Long, whose best known pen name was Marjorie Bowen. PublishedJune 1932. One of the rarest entries in the New Ninepenny Novels series. The spine is wrinkled, and somewhat worn, but the book is otherwise clean, solid, and in altogether very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition. The story of an ill-omened manor house long uninhabited to which a young baronet returns to fall victim to the schemes of a beautiful and unscrupulous girl. "an excellent novel of witchcraft, arguably Bowen's best work in the genre" SHADOWS IN THE ATTIC pg-97. Pages evenly age tanned, publishers red cloth spine sunned, VERY GOOD in a NEW facsimile dust wrapper. Photos of any for our books supplied on request.…