Ex Private X Pseud (3 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Arno Press, NY, 1976, (reprint of 1931 edition), 8vo., purple cloth, 285pp., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, VG- $.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-Private X, pseud. [Alfred McLelland Burrage]. Someone in the Room. NY: Arno Press, 1976, 1st. edition, 1st. printing this publisher, 285 pp., publisher's catalog (iii). *** Originally published in 1931, this volume includes a facsimile of title page from that edition. A collection of fourteen (14) tales of horror and terror by one of the masters of the genre. Included are - The Sweeper; The Waxwork; The Running Tide; The Cottage in the Wood; Smee; Someone in the Room; etc. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Purple cloth boards and spine with silver lettering on front cover and on spine. Fine condition. *** 8.75 inches tall by 5.75 inches.…

FIRST EDITION, pp. 288, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, lean to spine, a couple of patches of discolouration to cloth, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket chipped at extremities, backstrip panel a little browned, good. Early work by an author who became known as a writer of mystery novels, including under various pseudonyms (of which, Sefton Kyle was the most frequently employed). There is a discrepancy in the series numbering between the title-page and front wrapper (the latter says this is volume 4). Vickers was educated at Charterhouse School and Brasenose College, Oxford (which he left without taking a degree). The book has a wartime setting and the fact of it being published on location dictates its scarcity (NLS only on LibraryHub).…