Wintle William James (12 results)

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A wood fire on a wind-swept island. A little group of listeners bent toward the flames. And, unfolding slowly through the Sunday evening hours, the kind of story that ought not to be told aloud at all.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A wood fire on a wind-swept island. A little group of listeners bent toward the flames. And, unfolding slowly through the Sunday evening hours, the kind of story that ought not to be told aloud at all.These fifteen ghostly tales range from the quietly unsettling to the frankly horrible. A scholar's rosary of withered berries, gathered at the foot of a gallows, draws something dreadful into his quiet study. A bank of autumn fog over London teems with unseen, many-legged shapes. An ancient Scottish keep hides a chamber whose purpose no family member now living will name aloud. A tranquil cottage on a hillside proves to have a lodger that no rent can dislodge.Some tales turn on vengeance reaching across centuries. Others glint with a crooked humor at the edge of fear. All share the old conviction that the uncanny is never so far off as sensible people would prefer to believe.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine, scarlet lettering and border line to the upper panel. 8vo 7½'' x 5ĵ'' xii, 307 [pp]. Monochrome frontispiece. Age darkening to page edges and end papers and in Very Good square and tight condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1926-1945.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. 2nd enlarged Edition. 8vo in ornately red and black printed steel grey cloth, 120pp, folding map before illustrated frontispiece, 9 full page plates. First published in late August 1896 the book was reprinted in this new edition a mere 4 weeks later to include a new introductory note and an additional 8pp appendix on the Turkish massacre carried out in the interim . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved near FINE very clean and tight copy (neat ink name on front blank fly-leaf - no other marks or inscriptions, spine slightly tanned, end-papers moderately tanned). An excellent copy ] . . . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

FIRST EDITION. Front., folding map, illus. Orig. blue cloth, lettered in red, blocked in black with an image of a battle; spine sl. faded, remnants of removed label on leading pastedown. With ink inscription on leading f.e.p.: 'Mrs. Porlivay from S.M. August 1908'; bookseller's ticket of Nugent's London on following pastedown. William James Wintle, 1861-1934, was an English writer and journalist who wrote for various weekly and monthly publications. Wintle felt compelled to write this book after learning of the Hamidian massacres of 1894-96. The massacres resulted in the death of 200,000-300,000 Armenian and Assyrian Christian civilians after Sultan Abdul Hamid II re-established Pan-Islamism as state ideology in a last-ditch attempt to maintain the imperial domain of the collapsing Ottoman Empire.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A wood fire on a wind-swept island. A little group of listeners bent toward the flames. And, unfolding slowly through the Sunday evening hours, the kind of story that ought not to be told aloud at all.These fifteen ghostly tales range from the quietly unsettling to the frankly horrible. A scholar's rosary of withered berries, gathered at the foot of a gallows, draws something dreadful into his quiet study. A bank of autumn fog over London teems with unseen, many-legged shapes. An ancient Scottish keep hides a chamber whose purpose no family member now living will name aloud. A tranquil cottage on a hillside proves to have a lodger that no rent can dislodge.Some tales turn on vengeance reaching across centuries. Others glint with a crooked humor at the edge of fear. All share the old conviction that the uncanny is never so far off as sensible people would prefer to believe. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.