Published by Centaur Press [1972], New York, 1972
ISBN 10: 0878180079 ISBN 13: 9780878180073
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Virgil Finlay (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Centaur Press [1972]. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 0878180079 . First edition. "A most unusual volume of swashbuckling high adventure stories with a heavy accent on the fantastic". 120 pages [plus ads at the rear]. Otherwise VG+ or better copy with several areas of what looks like cover rubbing but is actually a manufacturing defect. .
Published by McClure, New York, 1901
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-164 [165-168: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], inserted frontispiece. title leaf and extra title leaf printed in orange and black, original red cloth stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Seven stories by Marion Hill (two contributions), George Madden Martin, G. K. Turner, Ellisworth Kelley, Louise Herrick Wall and Annie Webster. Smith Y-51. A very good copy. (#133470).
Published by Doubleday & McClure Co., New York, 1897
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-195 [196: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], illustrations, title page printed in orange and black, original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Seven stories by Octave Thanet, William Allen White, and others. Wright (III) 5363. A fine copy. (#135962).
Published by Tor, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0312851804 ISBN 13: 9780312851804
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects "Cafe Purgatorium" by Dana M. Anderson, "Dr. Krusadian's Method" by Ray Garton, and "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint. Anonymously edited by David G. Hartwell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#9535).
Published by Octopus Books Limited [1983], [London];, 1983
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Octavo, cloth. 349-page "instant remainder" anthology reprinting twenty-five stories, some of them classics, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Roger Zelazny, John W. Campbell, Fritz Leiber, H. G. Wells, J. G. Ballard and many others. [Reference: Reginald 16614]. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#169518) (30140).
Published by Doubleday & McClure Co., New York, 1897
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-192, illustrations, title page printed in orange and black, original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Six stories by Earl Joslyn, George H. Jessop, James T. McKay, Annie Howells Fréchette, Lizzie Hyer Neff, and James F. McKay. Wright (III) 5360. A fine copy. (#135960).
Published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1968
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Collects eight stories by the Strugatskys, G. Gor, Anatoly Dneprov, and others. The U.S. edition adds an introduction by Judith Merril not present in the earlier 1966 British edition published by Macgibbon & Kee. Reginald 11215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#86530).
Published by Doubleday & McClure Co., New York, 1897
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-170 [171-174: blank] note: last two leaves are blanks], illustrations, title page printed in orange and black, original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Seven stories by Robert Barr, Louise Chandler Moulton, and others. Wright (III) 5362. A fine copy. (#135961).
Published by Belmont Books, New York, 1965
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-646. Collects eight stories by Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Eric Frank Russell (two selections), Robert Silverberg, M. C. Pease, Frederik Pohl, and George H. Smith. A fine copy. (#94477).
Published by A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [New York], 1963
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F712. Collects nine stories by Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Jerome Bixby, Algis Budrys, and others. Neat owner's name at upper right corner of first leaf, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, a near fine, bright copy. (#88559).
Published by Belmont Books, New York, 1964
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont Books 92-606. Collects seven stories by Philip K. Dick, Frank Russell, Poul Anderson, and others. Reginald 09795. Touch of dust soiling to rear cover, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#88070).
Published by Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press, New York, 1924
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-330, original cloth-backed boards. First edition. A collection of fifteen stories by Sherwood Anderson, D. H. Lawrence, Conrad Aiken, Mary Butts, A. E. Coppard, Thomas Mann, and others. Includes "The Gentleman from San Francisco" buy Ivan Bunin. A few leaves a bit wrinkled at lower front corner tips, a very good copy. (#159645).
Published by Allied Newspapers Ltd., n.d. [193-], London
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. 1023-page anthology with fifty stories by Ruby M. Ayres, Cameron Blake, Victor Bridges. John Buchan, Reginald Campbell, Leslie Charteris, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, and others. [Reference: Contento and Greenberg, Index to Crime and Mystery Anthologies, pp. 547-48]. A fair reading copy, two tiny wormholes to front cover, wear to cloth at corners, spine sun faded, cloth split at lower rear spine, damp stain to lower spine and rear edges, patchy fading to cloth edges. (23034).
Published by W. & R. Chambers, London and Edinburgh, 1892
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-224, frontispiece, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, yellow and gold, rear panel stamped in black, decorated endpapers. Later printing. A collection of Victorian fiction reprinted from CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL by Leitch Ritchie, Mrs. Crowe, and others (the authors of three of the tales are identified but most of the stories appear here without attribution). Stories of romance and adventure, mostly with foreign settings. Wolff 7832. Spine lean, inner hinges cracked, several text leaves soiled, handwritten ownership statement of the "Ravenstonedale Reading Room Library" on the the front paste-down, a reading copy. (#171194).
Published by Ballantine Books [1957], New York, 1957
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: A fine copy, unread. (29235). First U.S. edition. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Ballantine Books 215. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding (science fiction set in the ancient world), "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham (feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future), and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake (a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan). Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY (1958). According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-78. Reginald 13447].
Published by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), London, 1937
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Thick octavo, pp. [1-14] 15-831 [832: blank], original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 831-page anthology with fifty-six articles and stories by E. F. Benson, Charles Dickens, and many others. Includes supernatural tales and crime stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 359. Bleiler (1978), p. 7. Reginald 02784. Some fading and soiling to cloth, a sound, good copy. (#174421).
Published by Published by Illustrated Newspapers, London, 1928
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-192, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind. First edition. Brief accounts of mysterious and occult "happenings" selected from a series of "weird" narratives submitted by "responsible people in good faith" published in the TATLER. Bleiler (1948), p. 30. A bright, clean, very good copy. (#171904).
Published by Truth Office, London, 1927
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-164 [165: ad] [166: blank] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black pasted over stiff boards. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Covers dusty, a very good copy. (#113763).
Published by London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., N. D. (1931), 1931
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Omnibus edition of two previous collections: "Uncanny Stories" (1916) and "More Uncanny Stories" (1918). Spine sunned, lettering intact. Light foxing inside and at fore-edge.
Published by William Paterson, London and Edinburgh, 1888
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3 [4] 5-256, original dark gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and silver, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. Collects seven stories, "The Severed Hand" by Wilhelm Hauff, "The Elementary Spirit" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Ghost-Seer" by Frederick Schiller, "The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck" by Sir Walter Scott [the outline of the story taken from the German, according to the anonymous editor], "The Klausenburg" by Ludwig Tieck, "The Bracelet" [not credited], and "The Evil Conscience" by Göethe. Published in the U.S. as WEIRD TIT-BITS: GERMAN by White & Allen in 1888. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-4. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1667. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 14972. Cloth worn and stained, a sound, good copy. Tipped onto the front free endpaper is the publisher's list of "Nuggets for Travellers Series," nine other books in the series uniform with this one. (#170653).
Published by Methuen, London, 1901
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-309 [310: printer's imprint] + 48-page publisher's catalogue dated "March 1901" inserted at rear, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red and gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Anthology of sensation fiction by H. D. Lowry, W. Clark Russell, W. E. Norris, Grant Allen, and others. Three of the eighteen stories are supernatural. "The First To Die," by Lowry, describes the laying of a curse by a persecuted unwed mother on the village where her son has been killed. "Selwyn's Utterton's Nemesis," by Allen, is another story about a curse, laid by a woman on her unfaithful husband, who has married her for her money, then tired of her and gradually killed her. "The Silver Snake," by Beatrice O'Connor, concerns a snake bracelet that kills a romantic rival (through either magic or advanced engineering -- the author leaves it ambiguous). The Grant Allen story does not seem to have appeared in any of his short story collections. Cloth worn and scuffed, stain on front paste-down where a label was removed, front free endpaper torn along gutter margin and nearly detached, a sound reading copy of an uncommon Victorian anthology. (#171503).
Published by Published by Illustrated Newspapers, London, 1928
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-192, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind. First edition. Brief accounts of mysterious and occult "happenings" selected from a series of "weird" narratives submitted by "responsible people in good faith" published in the TATLER. Bleiler (1948), p. 30. Slight spine lean, corner tips rubbed, a very good copy. (#170901).
Published by George W. Jacobs & Co Publishers, Philadelphia
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-286 [287-288: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], printed in pink and black throughout, original boards with color pictorial paper onlay on front panel, decorated endpapers. First edition. Ten stories by Bulwer-Lytton, Miss Mitford, Agnes Strickland, Mrs. Gore, and others. A pretty little book with an unusual binding: a strip of cloth extends about a half-inch under the front and rear boards, and goes over the spine board: printed paper labels on spine and front provide the title and decoration, while decorative endpapers hold it all together. The front pictorial onlay has a nice drawing, in the manner of Edmund Frederick, of an idealized young woman. 1913 Christmas gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Several old Christmas stickers pasted to endpapers. A nearly fine copy. Scarce. OCLC reports 3 copies; no copies reported by COPAC. (#116440).
Published by Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society, London, 1863
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-288, five illustrations, original pebbled gray cloth, spine titled and ruled in gold. First edition? Perhaps a later printing (circa 1880s?) of this collection of didactic adventure fiction probably intended for young readers. These stories were probably first published THE LEISURE HOUR, an illustrated penny-weekly paper which featured moralistic, self-improving serial novels, most of them published anonymously. Includes "Tale of a Detective," pp. 102-131, a crime story set in 1845. All the stories are presented anonymously, but "A Race for Life" is credited to the author of "Danesbury House" and "A Life Secret" [i.e. "A Life's Secret"], both works written by Ellen Price Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood). A popular book reprinted many times into the early twentieth century. Thirteen stories in all. "The Power of Music" tells two stories, one about Bach, another about Gluck. Hubin (1994), p. 24. A tight, clean, very good copy. (#119333).
Published by Daily Story Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-2] 3-325 [326: blank], twenty inserted plates with illustrations by J. Greville Wilmot, original two-part white and purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. 325-page anonymously edited anthology with thirty stories by Octave Thanet, Mary E. Wilkins [Freeman], Charles King, George Ade, Irving Batcheller, Opie Read, Elia W. Peattie, Albert Bigelow Paine and others. Several of the stories are supernatural, including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read (about a mummy), "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller (dreams and insanity), and "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett (a strange flower and insanity). According to Publisher's Weekly, two 5000-copy press runs were required to meet the public demand for the book. BAL 6363 (Freeman). Wright (III) 4931. Corner tips lightly worn, some spotting and soiling to cloth, a very good copy. (#164610).
Published by Brentano's, Paris, London, Chicago, New York, Washington, 1890
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-178 [179-180: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges trimmed. First edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Author of all these tales is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870), known as "the Spanish Poe," the most famous nineteenth century Spanish writer of supernatural fiction, also very influential on Latin American fiction. This is one of only two English-language collections extant, the other being the Romantic Legends of Spain (Crowell 1909). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1585. Bleiler (1978), p. 37. Reginald 13946. Remnants of pictorial label affixed to front paste-down, inked names on front free endpaper and first blank. Binding slightly leaned, wear to corner tips, spine ends a bit rubbed, a closed split in cloth along outer rear joint, light ring stain to front cover, free endpapers tanned, a very good, tight copy with a clean interior. (#156304).
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1894
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, six volumes, frontispiece in each volume, numerous vignettes in text, title pages printed in black, blue and orange, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed, decorated endpapers. Mixed, mostly first editions. A full set of the six individual anthologies issued in 1893, all reprinting short stories from SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE: STORIES OF NEW YORK, STORIES OF ITALY, STORIES OF THE ARMY, STORIES OF THE SEA, STORIES OF THE SOUTH, STORIES OF THE RAILWAY. All are first editions except STORIES OF ITALY, which is an 1894 reprint. The NEW YORK volume includes Edith Wharton's short story, "Mrs. Manstey's View," her first prose work to appear in a book. All volumes (except STORIES OF ITALY) contain supernatural material. Garrison B2. Three volumes (NEW YORK, SOUTH, and RAILWAY) lack the front free endpaper, one (SEA) with considerable foxing and some stains to covers, generally a good to very good set. (#135710).
Published by Arthur H. Stockwell, London, 1915
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-207 [208: blank], original apple green bevel-edged cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A mixed collection of fiction and verse by now quite obscure writers. There were at least three volumes of this series, the last published circa 1916. Cloth a bit spotted and soiled, scattered foxing, several leaves with old creases at lower fore-edge margins, a very good copy. (#170096).
Published by Brentano's, Paris, London, Chicago, New York, Washington, 1890
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-178 [179-180: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges trimmed. First U.S. edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Author of all these tales is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870), known as "the Spanish Poe," the most famous nineteenth century Spanish writer of supernatural fiction, also very influential on Latin American fiction. This is one of only two English-language collections extant, the other being the uncommon ROMANTIC LEGENDS OF SPAIN (Crowell 1909). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1585. Bleiler (1978), p. 37. Reginald 13946. Free endpapers tanned, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#171294).
Published by The Telegraph Press, NY, 1936
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First American Edition. 21 horror stories, originally broadcast on a BBC radio program called "Nightmares". Authors include Algernon Blackwood, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Ernest Betts, Marjorie Bowen, H. De vere Stacpoole, Noel Streatfeild, Noel Langley, Theodora Benson, and others. Light soiling at fore-edge; DJ has light chipping, soiling and wear. ; 224 pages.