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Published by Macmillan and Co., New York, 1893
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-320 [321-238: publisher's ads], original maroon cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in black and yellow. First U.S. edition. A miscellaneous collection. Although his first book (DEAD MAN'S ROCK) was published in 1887, Q is curiously ignored by both Sadleir and Wolff. Laid in are several newspaper clippings from THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN WEEKLY of the 1930s containing very short stories by unknown authors. Sutherland, The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction, p. 153. NCBEL III 1072. Spine ends lightly rubbed, a bright, tight, very good copy. (#117957).
Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1944
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-189 [190: printer's imprint] [191-192: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained red. First edition. A handy selection of Q's shorter fiction, twenty-eight stories arranged in three sections: "stories," "fantasias" and "drolls." A companion volume to Q's MYSTERY STORIES (1937). Not in NCBEL. Rectangular piece clipped from top of front free endpaper, a bright, near fine copy in very good dust jacket with a few internal tape mends and dust soiling to rear panel. (#117968).
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1962
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Q's last novel, unfinished at his death, completed by du Maurier. A romance set in nineteenth century Cornwall uniting the legend of Tristan and Iseult with the Fowey River. Hubin (1994), p. 662. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with internal damp stain on spine panel with no show through. (#51567).
Published by T Nelson & Sons (c1915) (Nelson Library of copyright fiction series and pocket edition), 1915
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. spine bumped and a trifle sunned, frontispiece, publisher s catalogue, good. 369 pages.
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1918
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-358 [359-364: ads], inserted frontispiece with illustration by J. P. Verrees, publisher's burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. A group of non-war related tales told by a colonel to his young officers in a dugout not far from the front line. "FOE-FARRELL might be called the Arabian Nights of the trenches (publisher's blurb). Some spotting to cloth and foxing to endpapers and page edges, a very good copy in a chipped and torn pictorial dust jacket. (#170715).
Published by Longmans, New York, 1905
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-8] 1-335 [336-338: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], eight inserted plates by Russell Flint and others, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. Seven short stories -- historical fiction with mostly English settings ranging from Elizabethan times to the Peninsular campaigns. NCBEL III 1072. Two bookplates on front paste-down, gift inscription on front free endpaper. Small stain on spine panel, gold lettering on spine panel dull, faint damp stains to fore-edge margins of several leaves, else a very good copy. (#111456).
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1896
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-293 [294: printer's imprint] + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "11.06" on page [1] followed by an 8-page catalogue dated "7.06" inserted at rear, original olive green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge untrimmed, other edges trimmed, white endpapers. Later printing. Mixed collection of fourteen Cornish tales, including classic, "The Roll-Call of the Reef," nautical ghosts, also "The Legend of Sir Dinar," Arthurian knight held in thrall by beautiful vampire who steals his youth. Also two drolls, "My Grandfather, Hendry Watty," dream story with ghosts; and "Widdershins," folkloristic magic. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p.152. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1355. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11954. Hubin (1994), p. 660. NCBEL III 1072. Armorial bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Cloth worn at edges, a very good copy. (#170560).
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1896
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-293 [294: printer's imprint] + undated [8]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, title page printed in red and black, publisher's olive green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge untrimmed. Second printing. Mixed collection of fourteen Cornish tales, including classic, "The Roll-Call of the Reef," nautical ghosts, also "The Legend of Sir Dinar," Arthurian knight held in thrall by beautiful vampire who steals his youth. Also two drolls, "My Grandfather, Hendry Watty," dream story with ghosts; and "Widdershins," folkloristic magic. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p.152. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1355. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11954. Hubin (1994), p. 660. NCBEL III 1072. Owner's signature on the front free endpaper. Slight spine lean, some faint spotting near fore-edge of front cover, a clean, tight, very good copy. (#172407).
Published by John Murray 1904, 1904
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. spine bumped with minor chipping, advertisement leaf, later front free endpaper, good. first edition; 357 pages; keywords: fiction;
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1899
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1] 2-312 + 8-page and[16]-page publisher's catalogue, dated "11-99" on page 8 and "12.99" on page [1] respectively, inserted at rear, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. First edition. This autobiographical life story of "Taffy" Raymond growing up in Cornwall in the 1860s, "is memorable as the record of a Cornish childhood. [It is] Quiller Couch's most substantial achievement in fiction." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, pp. 153; 573-74. NCBEL III 1072. Several light stains to cloth, hairline crack along inner front hinge, else a very good copy. (#105307).
Published by Methuen and Co., London, 1893
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-x [xi-xii] 1-89 [90: blank] [91: printer's colophon] [92: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank] + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "October 1892" inserted at rear, original decorated light green cloth, front panel stamped in dark green, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. "The restrained humorous poems of an Oxonian gentleman. Amusing, I say, but never funny." - David G. Hartwell. NCBEL III 1072. A bright, near fine copy of an attractive book. (#80190).
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1895
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-293 [294: printer's imprint] [295-296: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "10.95" on page [1] inserted at rear, original purplish red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. Mixed collection of fourteen Cornish tales, including classic, "The Roll-Call of the Reef," nautical ghosts, also "The Legend of Sir Dinar," Arthurian knight held in thrall by beautiful vampire who steals his youth. Also two drolls, "My Grandfather, Hendry Watty," dream story with ghosts; and "Widdershins," folkloristic magic. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p.152. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1355. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11954. Hubin (1994), p. 660. NCBEL III 1072. Covers rubbed and some stain spots, spine faded with some spotting, an about good copy with sound contents. (14015).
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1903
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-325 [326-328: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in red, white and light blue, spine panel stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. A collection of Cornish "midwinter tales," including "The Horror on the Stair," an enigmatic tale of supernatural revenge. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1359. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. NCBEL III 1072. Binding slightly leaned, cloth lightly rubbed at lower corner tips, top edge of text block darkened, a very good copy. (#138256).
Published by Smith, London, 1905
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-8] 1-335 [336: printer's imprint] [337-344: ads], eight inserted plates by Russell Flint and others, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Seven short stories -- historical fiction with mostly English settings ranging from Elizabethan times to the Peninsular campaigns. NCBEL III 1072. Spine panel a bit faded and soiled, else a very good copy. (#138257).
Published by Methuen and Co., London, 1907
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v [vi] [1] 2- 307 [308: printer's imprint] + 40-page publisher's catalogue dated "March 1907" inserted at rear, original decorated blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Mixed collection of seven stories including a good ghost story, "The Bend of the Road." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1360h. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1948), p. 229. Hubin (1994), p. 660. NCBEL III 1072. Some scattered foxing, largely to preliminary and terminal leaves and edges of text block, else an externally bright, fine copy. A nice copy of an attractive book. (#95611).
Published by Smith, London, 1910
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-291 [292: blank] [293-312: ads], original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Mixed collection of ten stories, including one supernatural tale, "Mutual Exchange, Limited." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1360j. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 416. Hubin (1994), p. 660. NCBEL III 1072. Some scattered foxing, largely to preliminary and terminal leaves and edges of text block, else an externally bright, fine copy. (#95609).
Published by Cassell and Company, London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, 1900
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-341 [342: printer's imprint], original olive-green cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges trimmed, pulp paper endpapers. First edition, later issue or printing with no date on title page and publisher's imprint "J. A. D. BRIDGER / PENZANCE" on the spine panel. Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1356. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-207. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11952. Hubin (1994), p. 662. NCBEL III 1072. Some foxing to fore-edge margins early and late (interaction with pulpy endpapers no doubt), else a very good copy with clean binding and bright spine stamping. (#170510).
By Q. London: Cassell & Company, 1888. 16 pp ads dated July 1888. Original tan cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of Quiller-Couch's second novel, which like his first and third (DEAD MAN'S ROCK, 1887, and THE SPLENDID SPUR, 1889) were published under the pseudonym "Q". Much of the tale is in his native Cornish dialect. Later on Quiller-Couch turned primarily to literary criticism, editing THE OXFORD BOOKs of English Verse, English Ballads, English Prose, etc. It was also he who completed Robert Louis Stevenson's ST. IVES, left unfinished at the latter's death. Cassell published this tale in the same series, and same type of soil-prone binding, as Haggard's KING SOLOMON'S MINES and Stevenson's THE BLACK ARROW -- which series was promoted as "Books for Boys." This is a remarkably fine copy, virtually free of wear and soil -- and is quite uncommon thus. NCBEL III 1071.
Published by Fowey Cottage Hospital Bazaar, [Fowey, Cornwall], 1912
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Small octavo, original white cloth, front panel stamped in gold. First edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Quiller-Couch. A small book prepared for a charitable affair, containing three stories. "The Czarina's Violet" is first published here (it was later included in IN POWDER AND CRINOLINE [1913]). "The Small People" is a fairy tale of sorts -- apparently rationalized at the end -- that was written a good deal earlier, "before my friend J. M. Barrie had packed Kensington Gardens full of them," as Q explains in a footnote. "Old Aeson" (alluding to a figure in Greek mythology who fathered Jason, of Argonaut fame) is a bittersweet allegory about parenthood that appeared in Q's first collection, NOUGHTS AND CROSSES (1891). Not in NCBEL. Cloth a bit foxed (largely rear panel), free endpapers tanned, a very good copy. A nice copy overall. (#117963).
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1895
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-293 [294: printer's imprint] [295-296: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "10.95" on page [1] inserted at rear, original burgundy cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. First edition. Mixed collection of fourteen Cornish tales, including classic, "The Roll-Call of the Reef," nautical ghosts, also "The Legend of Sir Dinar," Arthurian knight held in thrall by beautiful vampire who steals his youth. Also two drolls, "My Grandfather, Hendry Watty," dream story with ghosts; and "Widdershins," folkloristic magic. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p.152. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1355. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11954. Hubin (1994), p. 660. NCBEL III 1072. Formerly American writer Vincent Starrett's copy with his bookplate tipped in on the front paste-down, under which is the bookplate of an earlier owner, John M. Cameron. Also signed by Starrett on the half title page. Spine panel a bit darkened, a very good copy. A nice copy of an important collection of Q's tales. (#167363).
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1900
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-341 [342: printer's imprint] [343-344: ads] + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "10.06" inserted at rear, original olive-green vertically ribbed cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge untrimmed, other edges trimmed, plain endpapers. First edition, later issue (earlier issues are bound in red buckram, t.e.g., other edges trimmed or untrimmed, with inserted ads dated September 1900). Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1356. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-207. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11952. Hubin (1994), p. 662. NCBEL III 1072. Early private owner's small printed book label affixed to front paste-down, "23 September 1911" date in ink on same, a fine copy. Quite scarce in superior condition. (#77293).
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1900
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2:blank] [3-4] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 1-384 [1-4] [penultimate and final leaves are conjugate leaves with advertising matter and are pasted to rear free endpaper], publisher's dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1356. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-207. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11952. Hubin (1994), p. 662. NCBEL III 1072. A bright, nearly fine copy of an attractive book. Scarce in this condition. (#171884).
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1900
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-341 [342: printer's imprint] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "9.00" inserted at rear, original red buckram, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1356. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-207. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11952. Hubin (1994), p. 662. NCBEL III 1072. A touch of rubbing to cloth at upper spine which is also a bit sunned, an attractive very good copy. (20114) First edition, first issue, variant with fore and bottom edges of text block untrimmed.
Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, 1900
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-341 [342: printer's imprint] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "9.00" inserted at rear, original red buckram, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. First edition, first issue, variant with fore and bottom edges of text block untrimmed. Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1356. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-207. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11952. Hubin (1994), p. 662. NCBEL III 1072. Cloth rubbed at upper spine end, spine panel just a bit sunned, an attractive, very good copy. (#156195).