Boris Karloff Editor (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 164 pages. Illustrated. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, AA Milne children's books, the Arabian Nights, Christina Rossetti poetry, W M Thackeray, Boris Karloff.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover. First Edition/6th printing [stated-no number line]- C. Tower Books Edition. No DJ. Edge wear/rubbed/scuffed. Black boards with pink upper illustration [bat] & spine text/decorations. Tiny/small tears at a few page edges. B&W illustrated Frontis piece with tissue guard. Light soil/spotting expected with age/use. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Book block tight and square. Contents: The Waxwork/A.M. Burrage; Clay-Shuttered Doors/Helen R. Hull; The Judge's House/Bram Stoker; The Damned Thing/Ambrose Bierce; The Tarn/Hugh Walpole; The Furnished Room/O. Henry; Our Feathered Friends/Philip Macdonald; Father Macclesfield's Tale/Robert Hugh Benson; The Hound/William Faulkner; The Tell-Tale Heart/Edgar Allan Poe; Amy Foster/Joseph Conrad; The Beast with Five Fingers/William Fryer Harvey; The Willows/Algernon Blackwood; The Beckoning Fair One/Oliver Onions. All images are stock photos, not of the actual item. Photo requests encouraged prior to purchase. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. FIRSTEDITION/COLLECTIBLES/HORROR.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 172 pages "The most dreadful stories ever written - chosen by the master frightener himself.">> Surface indents & scratching to covers; 1" paper pull to front cover (Sticker price removed); minor creasing to covers edges. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Painted cover (illustrator). Book. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Tight and unmarked in striped boards, no jacket. 1942 Random House. C57 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Very good lightly read condition hardback. Textblock toned. No owner's marks. Shelfwear includes scratch base textblock, bump base spine and rubbed base edge boards, bumped top spine, and short tear top edge cloth-over-board. Marks on spine that may indicate past exposure to pests. This item has been sent through a mitigation process out of an abundance of caution.…

first edition, 1946. jacket design by leo manso. contributors include: paul verlaine, ivan turgenev, ambrose bierce, arthur conan doyle, algernon blackwood, w. somerset maugham, william yeats, edgar allen poe, charles baudelaire, nikolai gogol, joseph conrad, and h.p. lovecraft. clevland, ohio: world publishing company. 6 x 8.75 inches. hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: some toning to block. near fine-. jacket condition: notable shelf-wear. loss to spine. chipping thoughout. toning to rear panel. closed tear to front flap. unclipped. very good-. …

First edition. Octavo, jacket illustration by Lee Manso, two-part cloth. One of the largest, most extensive anthologies of horror and supernatural fiction published in the 1940s. Collects seventy-two stories and poems by John Buchan, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Oliver Onions, E. F. Benson and many others, with informative and often quite extensive headnotes by Karloff. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 932. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 49. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-276. Bleiler (1978), p. 111. Reginald 08067]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing at corner tips and spine ends, a tiny closed tear at the head of the spine panel. A superb copy and difficult to find in this condition. (30718).…

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, blocked and titled in grayish-blue and gilt on spine; light blue topstain; dustjacket; ix,3-631,[1]pp. Inscribed by Karloff in green pen on the front endpaper: "Best wishes / Boris Karloff." Subtle fading to topstain, with one small stain to right edge of textblock, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with some toning to rear panel and flap edges, and two small rectangular areas of surface loss to upper spine panel and upper right corner of front panel; Very Good+. The second of two horror anthologies published during the 1940s, edited by English actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969), best known for his roles in Frankenstein, The Mummy, House of Dracula, and The Raven. Karloff selected and introduced 72 stories, including contributions by Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, John Buchan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, August Derleth, H.R. Wakefield, Dorothy Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe, William Irish, Lord Dunsany, H.P. Lovecraft, W. Somerset Maugham, and others. Uncommon inscribed. 8615. …

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); dark sage green paper-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-317,[3]pp. Inscribed by Karloff on the front endpaper: "To Don / with every good wish / Boris Karloff / Jan 5/44." Some external wear, shallow chipping to crown, hint of sunning to spine, with some mild bubbling to paper and lower front cover, offsetting and some mild discoloration to endpapers, and the usual tanning to the text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is edgeworn, with corresponding tears and creasing to upper spine panel, a few tiny nick and tears, and a small splash mark to upper front flap; Very Good or better. Offered together with a three-page ALS from Karloff to Dr. E.M. Sheare (the publisher of this volume), composed in black pen on three sheets of Arsenic and Old Lace letterhead (measuring ca.8.5" x 11") and dated about five months prior to publication (May 20, 1943); 49 lines (280 words), signed "as ever, Boris." Two old folds from mailing smoothed out, some very subtle toning to extremities, else Fine, together with the original mailing envelope. All housed in a custom quarter-morocco drop-backed clamshell case. Scarce first printing of this cheaply-manufactured wartime anthology of "terror stories," all selected by Karloff, who has written a generous six-page introduction. The contents include contributions by Bram Stoker ("The Judge's House"), Ambrose Bierce ("The Damned Thing"), William Faulkner ("The Hound"), Edgar Allan Poe ("The Tell-Tale Heart"), Algernon Blackwood ("The Willows"), and Oliver Onions ("The Beckoning Fair One"), among others. The letter to his editor is particularly insightful, showing Karloff's strong opinions regarding what merited inclusion: "I am quite firm against Dunsany's "Where the Tides Ebb and Flow." It is beautiful and imaginative and all that but it no in [sic] sense fits our patterns.For reasons of space I think we could omit (I) Dunsany, (II) Woman at Seven Brothers (III) Shipment or Mute Fate or (IV) Breakdown / which is interesting but not terror. Hugh Binson's tale I consider a must, also The Waxwork - I've had three invitations to dinner without points on the telling of that one! I am enclosing the amended list for your consideration. By all means "The Beckoning Fair One" should be in last place in the book, on the score of length and excellence." Uncommon inscribed, with a lengthy contemporary ALS. 8614. …