Anonymously Edited (61 results)

Condition: Very Good. Very Good Condition. Has some wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Washington: The Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission [1959]. Very Good. 1959. Later Printing. Softcover. Later [2nd] printing. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.25" x 8.5"], saddle-stapled, 49 pages, frontispiece portrait. VG copy corner creasing, age-toning to coverbx107.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. [Asheboro]: [Anthology of Poetry Inc]. Near Fine. 1998. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 1883931134 . First edition. 172 pages. Near Fine copy [slight spine cocking]. .

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Naperville: Hysteria / Sourcebooks Inc [2001]. Near Fine. 2001. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 1570717664 . First edition. "44 gifts and gags for that special 'Over the Hill' guy!". Pictorial, oblong bound, wrappers [about 5.75" x 3.25"], unpaginated, illustrated. Near Fine copy. .

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. .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket. First Edition Thus. Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press no date. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 0000. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition thus [no statement of printing]? Dark brown and light brown/tan/beige decorated boards, top edge stained brown as issued, [77] pages [last numbered page is 76], illustrated. Oswald Train's bookplate. Near Fine copy in worn slipcase with some chipping of the paper covering [mostly along one edge]. .

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 247 Pp. Cloth Spine / Boards. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket With The Usual Sunning Around The Spine.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ministry of Finance Bucarest 1926. First Edition. Wrappers [about 6.25" x 9"], side-stapled, 166 pages plus 6 pages [printed rectos only] of graphs at the rear, frontispiece fold-out map of Romania. Good only copy 3/4" chipping/tearing to the spine ends, creasing to the spine and cover, corner creasing, paper-clip impression to the top of the first several pages See photos bx251.

Hardcover. First Edition. Pictorial Cover on black, boards have been nicked front and back; corners and spine frayed, pages have darkened, else good; 98 p. frontis. Johnston governor of Alabama twice and U.S. Senator.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. viii, 534pp. illustrated throughout. Publishers cream cloth is now dust soiled Leather title label.

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).

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.

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).

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).

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).

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).

Three-Quarters Leather. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. No date but circa 1890. Three quarters leather, green but tanned to brown on spine. Some heavy rubbing at corners with boards exposed. Decorate endpaper with prev owner's name on 1/2 title. Toned interior. Nice and tight.

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).

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).