Ghost by H R Wakefield (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. As new beauty.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cover a bit worn, blank front endpaper missing, good. A classic collection of ghost stories.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Ash Tree Press, 2000. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with sticker to back cover. Great copy of this compelling collection of stories.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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Introduction by Peter Ruber. Afterword by Barbara Roden. Cover illustration by Paul Lowe. Collects seventeen previously unpublished stories from the Arkham House files of August Derleth. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

First thus. Containing "Messrs. Turkes and Talbot," "A Peg on Which to Hang," "Used Car," "Damp Sheets," "The Cairn," "Blind Man's Bluff [sic]," "'Look Up There!'," "The Frontier Guards," "Mr. Ash's Studio," "Nurse's Tale," "A Coincidence at Hunton," "The Red Hand," "An Echo," "Day-Dream in Macedon," "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," "Epilogue by Roger Bantock," "The Last to Leave," "The Central Figure," "Old Man's Beard," "Present at the End," and "A Jolly Surprise for Henri." Grey linen lettered in black. 288, [8] pp. 7 x 4 1/2 in. Very good; lacking the dustjacket, a bit shaken, spine lightly sunned, cloth browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Paul Lowe (illustrator). 1st Edition. Wakefield, H[erbert] R[ussell]: REUNION AT DAWN AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED GHOST STORIES. British Columbia: Ash Tree Press, 2000. First Edition. Fine binding in Fine dustwrapper by Paul Lowe. Limited to 600 copies. Frontis illustration shows a page from one of Wakefield's holographic manuscripts. Seventeen ghost stories originally selected by Wakefield for his third and final Arkham House collection, which never came about, and was long believed to have been a mistakenly destroyed manuscript. Introduction by Peter Ruber, and Afterword by Barbara Roden, cover this once-lost collection's history.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Aceptable. London. Edit. Phiñlip Allan & C.ş Ltd. Imp. Mackays Ltd. 1928. First Edition. 19x12 cm. 313 págs. Tela edit. texto en inglés. # literatura.

New edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (33710).

New edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (183).

Condition: Good. First edition of Wakefield's collection of ghost stories. Dark yellow pebbled effect boards with a black border and lettering (now very faded) to spine. Boards are slightly marked on front and back. Page edges slightly tanned and marked. Internally clean apart from very occasional fingerprint smudges. Front and rear hinges are beginning to split. Contains previous owner's signature and address on fep. A rare copy of this classic book.8vo. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Woodcut device to title. Original black cloth. Cloth a little damp speckled near head of spine, but overall VG. A solid first edition of this collection of tales by a well-respected author, including his celebrated black magic yarn 'He cometh and he Passeth by'; Bleiler called these "excellent stories".

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. . Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. A sharp copy of the author's first and best (Barron 3-200) collection of supernatural tales. It includes among others the stories; "Proffesor Pownall's Oversight", "the Third Coach" and "The Red Lodge". "He Cometh and he Passeth by!" is a virtual pastiche of MR James 1929 Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, but handled with consumate craftmanship (Barron 3-200). VG+ or better book, black cloth with gold lettering. Somewhat faded on spine with some abrasion, particular on spine. Some dust-staining on top edge. Contemporary name on ffep, internally otherwise clean and in fine condition. VG+ or better DJ, some minor chipping at top and bottom of spine. Slight fading on spine, otherwise in fine condition in brodart jacket. A sharp copy with the uncommon DJ. Bleiler 1641, barron 3-200.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy in a fine example of the scarce dust jacket. A very small area of staining to the bottom edge of the rear panel, else fine. Original black cloth with the spine and front panel lettered in gilt. A parenthetical "1" is present on the last page. The jacket is not price-clipped. Wakefield's finest collection of Ghost Stories. Previous owner name on the front free endpaper. Now housed in a very strong and attractive drop-back box. Listed in Bleiler, p.277. Near Fine / Near Fine.

8vo 8" - 9" tall. As New in As New dust jacket. A collecton of 17 previously unpublished stories by Wakefield. Found in the files of August Dereleth by Arkham House Editor Peter Ruber, printed here for the first time. One of 600 copies, both book and jacket in as new condition and jacket with brodart cover. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. . As New in As New dust jacket. A reprint of the 1995 Ash-Tree Press edition of 300 copies. Both the book and DJ is as New, the jacket now with a brodart cover. We have a wide selection of Ash-Tree books, most in Fine - As New condition and happy to offer discount and/or free shipping for multiple purchases.

First Edition. Scarce collection of ghost and horror stories including the well regarded 'He Cometh and he Passeth by'. Bookplate to fep. A few light marks to covers and small chip out of rear cover [see scan] but generally VG.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],265,[1]pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, pictorial bookplate to front pastedown, with scattered foxing to text edges (though clean internally); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing some trivial wear to extremities and a hint of foxing; still a bright, Near Fine example. The first and best of the English author's collections of supernatural horror. "Includes "Professor Pownall's Oversight," about a chess player harassed by the spirit of a murdered rival; "The Third Coach," a study in madness involving a nasty confidence trickster; and "The Seventeenth Hole at Duncaster," about a haunted golf course.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, Horror Literature 3-200). Bleiler 1641 (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction).