Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. London: Chatto & Windus, 1902. 4 pp undated ads plus 32 pp ads dated March 1902. Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. First English Edition (published about two months after the American) of this mystery parodying those of Sherlock Holmes -- who was appearing that.....
London: Jonathan Cape, (1923). Original mottled grey boards with blue cloth spine and printed spine label. First Edition of this novel -- actually "a humorously fictionalized account of an Englishman's visit to Rome" [jrank] -- by this writer who was primarily a critic and editor. Very good-plus condition (spine cloth.....
London: Martin Secker, 1911. 4 pp undated ads. Original rose-orange cloth decorated in gilt, top edge of the pages stained orange. First Edition of this highly-collected, and quite scarce, collection of nine ghost stories. It includes what Algernon Blackwood cited as "the most horrible and beautiful ever written..." -- the.....
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922. Original orange cloth. First Edition of this strange supernatural tale, by the author who earlier had written GHOST-STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (1904) and MORE GHOST STORIES... (1911). There are seven full-page plates by Gilbert James. Quoting at length from Bleiler... The narrator falls asleep in.....
London: Edward Arnold, 1911. 2 pp undated ads plus 24 pp ads dated September 1911. Original grey cloth stamped in black. First Edition of James's second volume of ghost stories, following his original one in 1904. The fact that the volume consists of seven tales, and that seven years had.....
With Four Illustrations by the late James McBryde. London: Edward Arnold, 1904. 16 pp ads dated Nov 1904. Original oatmeal burlap with yapped fore-edge. First Edition of M.R. James's first book, consisting of eight tales of the supernatural. James was Provost of King's College, Cambridge, where he also directed the.....
And particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this extraordinary tale of a Cockney cycle mechanic who is carried off by a drifting balloon.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. 6 pp undated ads plus 8 pp ads dated "20.8.06." Original blind-stamped olive-green cloth. First Edition of this tale typical of Wells's transition from his early science fiction to his later socialism: a comet passes very close to Earth, emanating a gas that changes people's.....
London: Methuen & Co., (1906). 40 pp ads dated July 1906 (plus two loosely-inserted Methuen ad slips). Original bright red cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition by this prolific (and at the time very popular) author of many novels, often with elements of the supernatural and mystery -- such as.....
