Clock Strikes Twelve by Wakefield (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Arkham House, 1946. Hardcover. CONDITION: Near Fine, 1st edition. DJ CONDITION: Very Good. Black cloth boards in near flawless condition with sharp corners. Only real flaw is small dent at top edge of the back board. Spine straight, binding tight, gilt title text bright and shiny, minor curling to cloth at top of spine. 248 pages, very lightly tanned, clean and unmarked. DJ in G-VG condition, light age tanning, top corner chipping, chipping and color loss to top of spine. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Limited edition of 500 copies for sale. FINE in a FINE dust wrapper. The Ash-Tree Press edition of The Clock Strikes Twelve contains all eighteen stories from the two earlier editions, plus the author's own introduction. It also contains a further three stories which have never been collected with Wakefield's weird fiction, making this an essential volume of stories for any lover of the classic supernatural tale.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UNCLIPPED DJ, CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Limited to 500 copies. Collects twenty-two of Wakefield's stories. Introduction by Barbara Roden. Dust jacket illustration by Paul Lowe. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Limited to 500 copies. Collects twenty-two of Wakefield's stories. Introduction by Barbara Roden. Dust jacket illustration by Paul Lowe. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The copy of Charles N. Brown, founder of Locus magazine, with his stamp at FFEP. Black cloth with gilt spine titling, lightly bumped to spine ends and with heavy bump across top edge of front panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket toned and edgeworn, including minor loss at spine ends, and dampstained to lower spine. Cover price $3.00 at front inner flap. Pages toned, text unmarked.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Arkham House, 1946. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with flyleaf cut out and shelf/edgewear. No dust jacket. Great copy of this engaging sci-fi title.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. First US Edition, one of 4040 copies. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Ronald Clyne retaining original price ($3.00); xi,[1],248pp. Dust jacket shelf worn and rather toned at margins, smallish soil spot to upper panel, corners bumped; overall Very Good and sound. Collection of eighteen tales of the macabre, expanded from the first 1940 UK edition of the same title. The volume opens with the author's essay "Why I Write Ghost Stories." Joshi 20.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First US Edition. Collection of Horror and Supernatural. 4040 copies. VG in jacket.

Enlarged edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects Wakefield's "introduction" and eighteen stories from the original 1940 Jenkins and expanded 1946 Arkham House editions. Adds three stories by Wakefield that were not previously collected with his weird fiction, and an introduction by Barbara Roden. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with mild toning to the spine panel. (33708).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arkham House January 1946 Binding: Hardcover.

First edition,Original publisher's worn black clothbound hardback, No dust jacket. 271 Showing overall rubbing, marking and wear to the cloth, spine dulled, few small marks, internally clean, ink date and name to endpaper, bright and tight with nofurther ink marks or writing. First UK edition precedes US by 6 years. Scarce. 15541.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Collection of weird fiction and has 3 stories not previously included in Wakefield's collection. Limited to 500 copies. Fine in Fine jacket.

First edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects Wakefield's "introduction" and eighteen stories from the original 1940 Jenkins and expanded 1946 Arkham House editions. Adds three stories by Wakefield that were not previously collected with his weird fiction, and an introduction by Barbara Roden. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (33863).…

Condition: Very Good. Near Fine. First U.S. Edition. In original, unclipped ($3.00), jacket in protective sheet. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. Minor rubbing to edges and corners of jacket. Black cloth over boards with faded bronze lettering and design on the spine. Gentle bump at head of spine, otherwise square and solid. A few light spots on top and lower edge. The interior is lightly and evenly toned, otherwise it is clean and clear. Pages:(12) 248 Dimensions:7¾ x 5â x '7/8'. …

First edition. Octavo, cloth. 4040 copies printed. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1646. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-212]. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (33152).…

First U. S. edition. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to spine ends. (18482).…

Hardcover. dj. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Collects 18 ghost stories, four more (''A Fishing Story'', ''Used Car'', ''Death of A Poacher'' and ''Knock! Knock! Who's There?'') than the 14 in the Herbert Jenkins 1940 UK edition, plus a five page introduction (''Why I Write Ghost Stories''), also not present in the UK edition. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). …

Condition: Near Fine. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. 248 pp. Original black cloth with bright gold-stamped spine. One of 4,000 copies printed. Vibrant gilt. Dust jacket unclipped; minimal rubbing to spine ends. Minimal shelf wear. A faint pencil notation to the front flyleaf. A collection of eighteen macabre tales by a master of the English ghost story. Wakefield crafts atmosphere heavy narratives of vengeance from beyond the grave and ancient elemental forces. This volume includes the notable introductory essay "Why I Write Ghost Stories." L5. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. The Clock Strikes Twelve by H. Russell Wakefield (First Edition) A firm copy. Binding appears to be unopened. Bright front cover of the clipped jacket is laid in. First Printing, 1940, stated. Includes fourteen stories. 271 p. Black cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's red top stain. BOOK.…

1st edition thus. HC in dust jacket. 1st Printing. Expaned edition of 1940 Herbert Jenkins publication. 4040 copies printed. Previous owners bookplate to the front pastedown. Light foxing to the edge of the pageblock and endpages, which extends to the outside edges of the first and last several pages. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.…

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. 1946. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust jacket retaining price of $3.00 to front flap; pp. [12], 248, [4]; pushing to crown and base of spine, minor fading to dust jacket; very good.First US edition.A collection of ghost stories by Herbert Russell Wakefield, a prolific author of haunted tales frequently compared to M. R James in tone and subject. Wakefield's work appeared in popular periodicals and found favour with August Derleth of Arkham House. Though a shorter version of this book appeared in London in 1940, by 1946, Derleth had published The Clock Strikes Twelve in a larger more complete US edition. The forward to the text, titled "Why I Write Ghost Stories" gives some insight into why Wakefield chose to write ghost stories (it has something to do with a haunted spoon) and is all the more interesting considering he burned his correspondence files, manuscripts and all photographs of himself shortly before his death.…