Item 11536Two John Hassall Original Artworks
Good condition, with foxing and scuffing outside the image. Both ~160mm x 240mm. John Hassall (1868-1948) was a British illustrator best known for his posters, cartoons and adverts.
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Item 12604The Fool Killer
Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1885. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author: 'Compliments of the Author A Fugitive.' "Account of a spirit journey to an inhabited and civilised Mars not unlike Earth to which the hero's spirit travels along the sun's light beam when the.....
Item 12319The Rim World Series
London: Allison & Busby, 1981-1982. First Hardback. A near fine set. Four volumes, complete. The first four Rim World books, there are plenty of others but Allison & Busby put together this nice tetraolgy a couple of decades after the initial publication (in a couple of cases these are the.....
Item 11931The Ants of Timothy Thummel
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. In the jacket. "Fantasy satire in the tradition of Swift that chronicles the rise and fall of a mighty Ant Race that flourished in Central Africa in prehistoric times whose civilization is destroyed by the great Ant World-War".....
Item 13226Rita Rides a Rocket
Wallington, Surrey: No Publisher, 1955. Manuscript Hardback. Very good condition. Original typescript for an unpublished book by a seemingly unpublished author (A.B. Dailey is a pen name). ~95,000 words, 320pp rectos only, likely not top-copy. Illustrated plates pasted in. Originally written some 30 years earlier. Some notes. Postcard of Dailey(?).....
Item 12718A Shropshire Lad
London: The Richards Press, 1929. Limited Hardback. A good copy. Nunmber 177 of 325 copies issued. Spare spine label included to the rear, if the one on the spine's a little too worn for you. Boards marked, spine toned, label chipped, some bumping to the tips and corners and a......
Item 11557Space: A Mirage
London: R. Grant & Son, 1913. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. "...an interstellar civilisation of celestials which look after and guide the inhabitants of the planets. An expeditionary army of occupation of Earth by the celestials (to relieve that already there) is being assembled on the planet.....
Item 12471The Battle of Forever
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Slight lean, some foxing to the top edge, 10mm tear. Jacket reinforced with tape to the reverse.
Item 12648The Far-Out Worlds of A.E. Van Vogt
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A few bumps and knocks to the boards, edges a little dusty, a couple of short tears to the top of the jacket, a little wrinkling.
Item 13168Belle and the Dragon: An Elfin Comedy
London: James Elliott, 1894. Proof Unbound. A very good copy. The book itself is very uncommon, the unbound sheets moreso. Uncut gatherings. Starting with the first illustration, followed by the title page. An allegorical tales based around Waite and his friends. Waite wrote both fantasies, books on the occult and.....
Item 11989Half-Valdez
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. First / First. Hardback. Near Fine. Adelaide Manning was one half of the crime writing duo Manning Coles. The present book was published before their first collaboration on 'Drink to Yesterday'. "...a fanciful tale of a hunt for lost Spanish treasure hidden in the days.....
Item 9566Camp Fire Sketches
London: R.A. Everett, n.d. [1902]. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Hales was an Australian war correspondent and here he gathers 25 short recollections. Most notable is a recounting of a speech at the Whitefriars club by Mark Twain and the meeting there between Twain and Winston Churchill.....
Item 9758Chambers's Journal, October 1932
London: W & R Chambers, 1932. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Features "It Never Rains, but…" by A.M. Burrage. A little toned to the spine.
Item 11335The Dreams of Orlow
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed playfully by the author. An examination of dreams and existence on other planes. Some loss to the spine tips, and a few tears and chips. Foxing to the edges. Spine tips bumped, but largely an.....
Item 11923Karma: A Novel
London: Chapman & Hall, 1885. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Complete in two volumes. An important work in the occult canon. "Fantasy and the supernatural which to some extent forms a vehicle for the author's theories of esoteric Buddhism; this sort of book exemplified by Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni, can.....
Item 10807The Minutes
London: Fowler Wright Ltd, 1928. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. 14 short stories, it eponymous story being a utopia. A lovely copy in the jacket, light edgewear and a little spotting to the edges.
Item 11333The Last Man Alive
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon. Some chipping and edgewear to the jacket, owner's name to front endpaper and a little discolouration to the rear.
Item 11599Princess and Priest and Mademoiselle Etienne
London: Downey & Co., 1895. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Slight pushing to the spine tips, a light reading lean. From a contemporary Spectator review: "Any attempt to reproduce for the readers of the nineteenth century the social life and civilisation of Ancient Egypt deserves consideration. That.....
Item 11751Ush: The Revelation of Bandobast Wilderness
London: John Ouseley, nd [1912]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author to Sir Jesse Boot (of Boots the Chemist fame). A tale set in India involving all sorts of mythological elements. Spine faded with some wear to the spine tips and corners. A little.....
Item 13293A Parisian Sultana
London: Remington & Co., 1879. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Three volumes, complete. Quite uncommon. First published in 1877 as La Sultane Parisienne, La Fievre de L;Inconnu and La Venus Noire. A fantastic copy. A touch knocked at the spine tips, very light rubbing. Also issued as a......
Item 12894Moss is the Stuff
London: Chatto & Windus, 1937. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. Some offsetting to the free endpapers. Spine tips a little bumped. The jacket has some short closed tears and chips along the edges, and a little rubbing but a presentable copy overall.
Item 12676Walking to Aldebaran
Oxford: Solaris, 2019. Limited Hardback. A fine copy. One of 1000 unnumbered copies, each signed by the author.
Item 12028Tales of the Fantastic
London: Privately Printed, 1938. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Collects five tales (there was a second edition which had eleven tales). Quite uncommon, only a handful of brief references found. Likely unstudied, with only one copy of the second edition located (Oxford). The titles are: 'Fay: A......
Item 13088999: New Stories of Horror & Suspense
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance & Hill House, 1999. Limited Hardback. A fine copy. 339 of 500 copies issued in this format, signed by each of the authors with the exception of Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates - all as issued. Winner of the 1999 Bram Stoker award. For a little.....
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Item 11406The Gravedigger Chronicles [comprising] Sea of Ghosts, and The Art of Hunting
London: Tor, 2011-2013. First / First. Hardback. A fine set. Each volume signed by the author without inscription. Alan Campbell (1971-) is a Scottish writer.