Stephen Wischhusen Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fletcher & Sons edition. The book has gently bumped corners, loose hinges, and an overall light aging to the pages, otherwise it is in very good condition with crisp, unmarked pages, a tight binding, and a clean cover. The dustjacket has a portion approx 3 1/4 by 1/2 inch at the bottom right corner of the back cover where there has been some sort of insect damage that has eaten away a ragged edge of the jacket, shelfwear to the edges and corners of the jacket resulting in few creases and small tears, uneven sunfading and toning to both covers, and smuding from use near the spine, otherwise the dustjacket is in fair condition, largely intact with an attractive cover illustration.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No D/J as Published. Minor marks to boards. Long gift inscription to ffep.

Hardback. Hardback. 173pp. Frontis and 13 further black and white illustrations. Contains facsimile texts of the scripts of: The Vampire, The Devil's Elixir, The Flying Dutchman, The Castle Spectre, A Tale of Mystery, and Frankenstein. With a substantial introduction by Stephen Wischhusen on London theatres in the early nineteenth century and the production of gothic melodramas. The original contributors are Matthew Lewis, Thomas Holcroft, J. R. Planche, Henry M. Milner, Edward Fitzball. Landscape format with two facsimile pages per page. Red boards with black titles to spine are very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed with two small short closed tears to top front edge. Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original scarlet red cloth-covered boards with paper labels on the front and spine and fine glassine dust jacket. This edition is easily confused with the much more common trade edition in boards and a green dust jacket, and it is far less common. …

Hardback. Condition: Very good copy. Hardback. 173pp. Frontis and 13 further black and white illustrations. Contains facsimile texts of the scripts of: The Vampire, The Devil's Elixir, The Flying Dutchman, The Castle Spectre, A Tale of Mystery, and Frankenstein. With a substantial introduction by Stephen Wischhusen on London theatres in the early nineteenth century and the production of gothic melodramas. The original contributors are Matthew Lewis, Thomas Holcroft, J. R. Planche, Henry M. Milner, Edward Fitzball. Landscape format with two facsimile pages per page. Attractively bound in scarlet cloth (a velvet-type material) with printed title labels to front and spine. Lightly rubbed. Previous owner's name to prelim. Very clean and neat. Very good copy.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.