Coles Phillips Illus (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very minor cover wear and soiling. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 400 pages.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked and pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling, with minor rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 400 pages; Impressively illustrated, including a tissue-guarded, color frontis. Description: 4 p. L. , 400, [2] p. Col. Front. , illus. 20 cm. Subjects: Nicholson, Meredith 1866-1947. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked and pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling, with minor rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 400 pages; Impressively illustrated, including a tissue-guarded, color frontis. Description: 4 p. L. , 400, [2] p. Col. Front. , illus. 20 cm. Subjects: Nicholson, Meredith 1866-1947. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. First edition. First edition/ printing. Fine, bright example with a touch wear at the spine extremities. Hardcover in blue cloth lettered in white. Unusual double-page frontis illustration (frontis and title page) of a "fadeaway" man, a style for which illustrator Coles Phillips was famous (though usually women subjects). Four additional black and white plates by Harold J. Cue. vi+ 377 pp. plus one page of ads at rear. The narrator of this outre novel is a doctor who, when called upon to treat a very ill little girl, finds that his patient is inflenced by a mysterious, unknown presence that lurks on the other side of the blue wall of her room. The book has alternately classified as a mystery, a supernatural, or a horror book. it has achieved something of a cult following and was reprinted in the 21st century in paperback.

Quarto red leather boards, gilt lettering and blind stamp decoration to front, blind stamp lettering to spine, illus. (charmingly), VG (light scuffing and rubbing to boards, light soiling (a touch of water damage to prelims., v. minor) and foxing within (plates being mostly clean)).