Dark Descent by David Hartwell, First Edition (11 results)

Paperback. first edition. fine, unread, trade paperback, a little bumping.

Paperback. first edition. fine, unread, trade paperback,

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Ptg. Very large, very thick, heavy softcover, glossy black wrappers with flames illustrated on front, list of dozens of contributors on back wrapper, 1011 pages. Creased at top tip on page 389. Slight surface wear to spine edges, very slight at front wrapper, two tiny tears with creases between at top back edge, nick at top back edge near tip, creased at bottom back tip. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Joe Curcio (illustrator). 1st Edition. TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, NY, NY, 1987. First Edition, First Printing thick, heavy orange hardcover book, black printing on spine, with unclipped DJ. 1011 pp. Special illustrated autograph plate SIGNED by editor Hartwell laid in. Huge collection and winner of the World Fantasy Award for best anthology. 56 stories by a who's who of authors: Lovecraft, Poe, Le Fanu, King, Kirk, Dick, Ellison, James, Faulkner, etc, etc. This copy has some mouse nibbling at top of back of DJ and to the top right corner on back of book; soiling to top text block edge. Rest of book is fine, but due the damage I would only rate it good. Interior tight and unmarked, unread. Signed By Editor.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Doug Fornuff; (illustrator). First Thus. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Doug Fornuff. This anthology contains: A Little Something for Us Tempunauts by Philip K. Dick; The Summer People by Shirley Jackson; The Beautiful Stranger by Shirley Jackson; The Whimper of Whipped Dogs by Harlan Ellison; Sticks by Karl Edward Wagner; There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding by Russell Kirk; The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft; The Rats in the Walls by H. P. Lovecraft; My Dear Emily by Joanna Russ; Vandy, Vandy by Manly Wade Wellman; Belsen Express by Fritz Leiber; Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch; A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner; Mackintosh Willy by Ramsey Campbell; Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber; Seven American Nights by Gene Wolfe; The Signalman by Charles Dickens; The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers; The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions; What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien; The Reach by Stephen King; Evening Primrose by John Collier; The Ash-Tree by M. R. James; The New Mother by Lucy Clifford; Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Mr. Justice Harbottle by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Crowd by Ray Bradbury; The Autopsy by Michael Shea; John Charrington's Wedding by E. Nesbit; Larger Than Oneself by Robert Aickman; If Damon Comes by Charles L. Grant; The Swords by Robert Aickman; The Roaches by Thomas M. Disch; Bright Segment by Theodore Sturgeon; Dread by Clive Barker; The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe; The Monkey by Stephen King; Within the Walls of Tyre by Michael Bishop; Schalken the Painter by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; How Love Came To Professor Guildea by Robert Hichens; Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson; You Can Go Now by Dennis Etchison; The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence; Three Days by Tanith Lee; Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor; The Jolly Corner by Henry James; Crouch End by Stephen King; Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates; Seaton's Aunt by Walter de la Mare; Clara Militch by Ivan Turgenev; The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce; Afterward by Edith Wharton; The Willows by Algernon Blackwood; The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch; and The Hospice by Robert Aickman. Size: 8vo. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. This is a stated first edition with a full number line but I think it may be a book club edition. The covers and spine have moderate wear and there is foxing to the page edges and a light stain across the top page edges. The pages are clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth with spine stamped in black. Stories by Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, and many others. 6 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches. 1,011 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First printing hardcover, stated. Signed by Hartwell to publisher's pictorial bookplate laid in. Slight bumping to points, hint foxing to text block edge. The DJ is slightly toned to flaps. ; 6.5 X 2 X 9.5 inches; 1024 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. An immense collection featuring a comprehensive presentation of the evolution of the horror story. Co-Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best anthology, 1988. An immense collection of stories by numerous authors such as Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Aikaman, Fritz Leiber, Robert W. Chambers, Algernon Blackwood, and so many others. A fine copy in fine and bright dust jacket. Quite handsome. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Ramsey Campbell cited this as one of the great horror anthologies. It contains three volumes in one binding: The Color of Evil, The Medusa In the Shield & A Fabulous Formless Darkness. It includes work by Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton and others. Some edge-wear.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). Massive reprint horror anthology. 1012 pages: subtitled 'The Evolution Of Horror', split into three sepapate (hardcover) volumes for British publication. SPECIALLY PRINTED PICTORIAL BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY THE EDITOR AFFIXED TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. First printing was ''9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'' on copyright page. The companion volume to this was FOUNDATIONS OF FEAR (1992). Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new),