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Published by Puffin, 1979
ISBN 10: 0140310746ISBN 13: 9780140310740
Seller: Harry Righton, Evesham, United Kingdom
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good.
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1989
ISBN 10: 0192826662ISBN 13: 9780192826664
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. John Atkinson Grimshaw; (illustrator). First Printing - First Thus. 504 pp. (xvii) Please note, this is a somewhat heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping will likely be higher than normal. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside. The cover features A Lady in a Garden by Moonlight by John Atkinson Grimshaw. This anthology contains: The Cicerones by Robert Aickman; Soft Voices at Passenham by T. H. White; The Bottle of 1912 by Simon Raven; Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen; Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams; Mr Jones by Edith Wharton; Old Man's Beard by H. Russell Wakefield; Fullcircle by John Buchan; The Cigarette Case by Oliver Onions; The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood; The Roll Call of the Reef by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch; Man Size in Marble by E. Nesbit; A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee; The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott; The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards; Squire Toby's Will by J. Sheridan le Fanu; The Shadow in the Corner by M. E. Braddon; The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford; The Judge's House by Bram Stoker; The Friends of the Friends by Henry James; The Red Room by H. G. Wells; The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs; The Lost Ghost by Mary E. Wilkins; Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad by M. R. James; Rose Rose by Barry Pain; The Confession of Charles Linkworth by E. F. Benson; On the Brighton Road by Richard Middleton; Bone to His Bone by E. G. Swain; The True History of Anthony Ffryar by Arthur Gray; The Taipan by W. Somerset Maugham; The Victim by May Sinclair; A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley; The Clock by W. F. Harvey; Smee by A. M. Burrage; The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole; Ahoy Sailor Boy by A. E. Coppard; The Hollow Man by Thomas Burke; Bosworth Summit Pound by L. T. C. Rolt; An Encounter in the Mist by A. N. L. Munby; A Story of Don Juan by V. S. Pritchett; Cushi by Christopher Woodforde; and Bad Company by Walter de la Mare. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1928
Seller: Books on the Square, Virden, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Poor - Fair. No Jacket. 1928. Poor - Fair hardback book. No dust jacket. A clean copy. Front hinge broken, but holding by paper. Missing front facing endpaper. Tear to top of spine. 266pp. 12mo. (A).
Published by Jonathan Cape, 1935
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Good. 1935 first edition on light brown textile cloth.
Published by London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Writing to the front board. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright and strong. Physical description; 256 pages. Subjects H. R. Wakefield. Ghost Stories. 1 Kg.
Published by London: Jonathan Cape, 1935
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Writing to the front board. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright and strong. Physical description; 256 pages. Subjects H. R. Wakefield. Ghost Stories. 1 Kg.
Published by Ash-Tree Press, 2000
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Collection of 17 previously unpublished and uncollected stories. 600 copies published. Fine in Fine jacket.
Published by Ash-Tree Press, 2000
Seller: Granny Artemis Antiquarian Books, Bremerton, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
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.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 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; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Reprint. 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.
Published by Ash-Tree Press, Penyffordd, Chester, 1995
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
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. (22659).
Published by Ash-Tree Press, Penyffordd, Chester, 1995
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
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).
Published by London Philip Allan and Co Ltd 1928, 1928
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: Good. Dark yellow leather 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. Contains previous owner's signature and address on fep. A rare copy of this classic book of ghost stories. Good.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1932
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2s. Bringing together the ghost stories from the three earlier Philip Allan publications, but also featuring four new stories. Number 35 in Cape's Florin Books series. A very good in very slightly toned but o/w very good jacket.
Published by Philip Allan, London, 1928
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
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".
Published by Jonathan Cape/Florin Book, London, United Kingdom, 1932
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, True first printing (first impression) with [This Collection First Published, in Florin Books 1932] to copyright page and no statement of reprint. Octavo, pp.288 + [6]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. A very good plus copy in good dust jacket with chipping to the extremities, light wear to corner tips and age-darkening to spine panel, price to spine, clipped front inner flap. Very scarce in jacket.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1928
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., 265pp. Beautiful First Edition First Printing with (1) on the last page of text as called for by this publisher. Bound in black cloth with titles in gilt on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a touch of softness to the spine ends and a tiny bump to the front top tip. Very well-preserved with no toning or foxing. Small booksellers ticket on the rear paste-down. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00 in the body of the front flap text), has a couple of spots of spoiling and minor edge-wear. Three small tape repairs on the verso that is just visible from the front. Still fairly unobtrusive. A solid, bright example with no chipping or creases and scarce in any condition. A sharp collectable copy of a quite uncommon t a great price.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1928
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition
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).
Published by D. Appleton And Company, New York, 1928
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.