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Item #11751 Ush: The Revelation of Bandobast Wilderness. Adelphos, W. Pickard Gibson

Ush: 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.....

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Item #11853 Tales Legends & Traditions Of Forfarshire. Alex Lowson

Tales Legends & Traditions Of Forfarshire

Forfar and, Edinburgh and Glasgow: John MacDonald & John Menzies & Co., 1891. John Young. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. 16 illustrations. Cloth a little wrinkled, some offsetting, binding a little shaken, overopened in the centre with the webbing showing, spine toned.

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Item #11665 Barthel Winkler, and Other Tales of the German Fatherland. Anonymous

Barthel Winkler, and Other Tales of the German Fatherland

London: Leisure Hour Office, nd. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Collects 14 short pieces. No date, the two copies in libraries date it to 1864 or 1880s. Half calf, with marbled boards. A little rubbing to the boards edges, and spine. First and last few leaves foxed.....

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Item #9931 The Stealing of the Veil or the Enchanted Pool, A Humourous Tale. Anonymous, Johann...

The Stealing of the Veil or the Enchanted Pool, A Humourous Tale

London: Deans and Dunne, 1807. First / First. Paperback. A good copy. Uncommon. Only one copy located (at the V&A). Translated from the German, from Folktales of the Germans published first in the 1780s. 24pp rebound in a simple paper wrapper. Presumably the chapbook was originally offered without a cover.....

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Item #6395 Alcyone. Eden Phillpotts

Alcyone

London: Ernest Benn, 1930. Limited Hardback. One of 60 copies, of which fifty were for sale (and let's face it, the other ten have probably found dispersal as readily as the other fifty by now). Signed by the author to the half-title verso, on a limitation page as issued. Thirteen.....

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Item #10764 Les Contes Noirs ou Les Frayeurs Populaires. J S. C. De Saint-Albin, Jacques Collin...

Les Contes Noirs ou Les Frayeurs Populaires

Paris: P. Mongie, 1818. First Unbound. A very good copy. A collection of presumably dark fairy tales; my attempts at reading them have been thwarted by the awkwardness of Google Translate and fragility of the books, so I pass no guarantee but with titles like The Devil's Barn, The Specter.....

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Item #13114 Supernatural Illusions. Major P. I. Begbie

Supernatural Illusions

London: T.C. Newby, 1851. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A fantastic book examining the interplay of superstition and rationalism, examining the historic prevelance of superstition aswell as contemporary cases. The book seems to take a harsh stance against the superstition of previous centuries, whilst allowing for a......

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Item #13814 The Wishing Well - Original Manuscript. Richard Gerrett

The Wishing Well - Original Manuscript

No Place: No Publisher, No Date. Manuscript Hardback. Very good condition. The original typed manuscript of his novel, with an inscription from the author to his mother. Minor corrections throughout. 272pp, single-sided, top-copy. We have not identified the author beyond his name. The novel is a portal fantasy of Arthurian.....

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Item #11581 Tales of an Antiquary: Chiefly Illustrative of the Manners, Traditions, and...

Tales of an Antiquary: Chiefly Illustrative of the Manners, Traditions, and Remarkable Localities of Ancient London

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A somewhat obscure collection of tales from the 12th to the 18th century mostly set in and around London. The collection includes The Wehr Wolf: A Legend of the Limosin, an early werewolf tale, preceding Reynolds' Wagner the.....

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Item #11876 The Devil's Mistress - Presentation Copy to his Wife. J W. Brodie-Innes

The Devil's Mistress - Presentation Copy to his Wife

London: William Rider & Son, 1915. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author to his wife Fay. "Supernatural romance of witchcraft and Satanism, excellent historical detail and use of Scots folklore. Based on the true case of Isabel Gaudie in early seventeenth century." The upper.....

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