Cambridge: The Oleander Press, 2009. Paperback. [viii], 131pp, [ii]. Unread copy, pages fresh like new. Gray was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, which provides the settings for these supernatural stories, which were first published by Heffer in 1919. c.22x14cms, in the original pictorial grey card covers, clean and square like..... More

Dublin: M.H.Gill and Son, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. [iii]-xiv, 722. Fiction, set in the late 18th century, preceded by an historical Introduction to set the scene. Contents clean and firm, with faint toning to edges. No half-title, new endpapers, top edge tinted. c.19x12cms, recently rebacked, with the original firm but..... More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. First English edition. Hardcover. [iv], 3-104. Pages and endpapers clean and unmarked. Closed top edge slightly toned and foxed. 19x12.5cms, in the original binding of grey-green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Clean, corners good, slightly sunned to the top edge and where the lower panel of..... More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1918]. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated [58pp]: 25 openings with a humorous verse to the left and its illustration recto; the prelims consist of illustrated openings for the half title, title, Index, and Introduction. The tone of the humour is somewhat mocking of the "Girls'..... More

London: Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books, 2011. First English edition (complete number line). Hardcover. xiii, 306pp. Unread copy. First published as La Peur in 1930, the novel graphically describes the terrible experiences of soldiers during the first world war. It was regarded as seditious, and was unavailable for..... More

London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [1914]. [Presumed only printing of this edition.]. Hardcover. A very handsome set, looks 100 years younger than it actually is. Greenough's 1914 Introduction is followed by Maria Clemm's Preface to the 1849 edition; then there are James Russell Lowell's notice of Poe's Life and Works..... More

London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 414. Early ownership name to pastedown. New front free endpaper. Title page tanned, and some wear to edges of prelim pages. Text pages have some soiling and minor stains, with upper corners knocked, and slightly cockled. Firm, in the original binding of..... More

London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1898. First English edition. Hardcover. xv, [i], 336pp, + the 64 plates (incl. frontis). Contents clean and bright, with the original bright decorative endpapers. Perhaps twenty-five pages have a little spotting, and there's more intrusive foxing to about twenty others, including the title and..... More

London: Chatto & Windus, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. [x], 260pp. Contents fresh and unmarked. Closed edges appear slightly toned. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp. The protected unclipped pictorial jacket is crisp and bright, slightly faded to the spine, has a...... More

Hassocks: John Spiers, The Harvester Press, 1978. First UK edition of this translation. Hardcover. xxvii, [i], 356pp. Contents clean and unmarked, with map endpapers. Laid in are reviews by Anthony Burgess and Clarence Brown welcoming this translation, and comparing the novel to Joyce's Ulysses, while the puff on the jacket..... More

London: Hutchinson, n.d. [1944]. First edition. Hardcover. 224pp. Very clean fresh copy, with a neat 1944 gift inscription to the front free endpaper. In the original binding of black cloth titled in gilt, clean and bright, corners sharp: 2mm rubbed at foot of spine. In the protected unclipped dust jacket..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 136pp, with illustrations in the text and a coloured frontis. Contents clean and unmarked, with slight tanning to the first blank leaf and final text page, and two small spots to the bottom edge of the title and contents pages. Top edge red..... More

Leicester, UK: Thorpe and Porter, n.d. [1947?]. Presumed first and only UK edition. Softcover. 80pp. Five stories, each with beginning with a monochrome illustration. Contents very fresh and clean, with adverts for UK companies. 24x16.5cms, stapled, in colour pictorial cover. This is fresh and bright and uncreased, although a bit..... More