Introduction Edgar Smith (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. Light rubbing on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This story collection contains: Introduction by Edgar W. Smith; The Adventure of the Lost Dutchman; The Devil's Footprints; The Dorrington Inheritance; The Triple Kent; The Rydberg Numbers; The Grice-Paterson Curse; The Stone of Scone; the Remarkable Worm; The Penny Magenta;The Trained Cormorant; The Camberwell Beauty; The Little Hangman; and The Swedenborg Signatures. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth hardcover, dust jacket, light signs of age. We ship fast. Stated first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

HARDCOVER. Condition: G- / NONE. GOOD-MINUS HARDBACK. EX-LIBRARY WITH TYPICAL MARKINGS. HEAVILY WORN BUT SOLID SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. WITH "VR" ON COVER IN 4 PLACES AS IF MADE UP OF BULLET HOLES. Illus. By Steele, Paget, Etc (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Fine jacket (price clipped). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name, otherwise fresh and crisp. No remainder mark. Convicted of murdering a 15 year-old New Jersey girl, the author spent over 11 years in solitary confinement on Death Row. Fighting to avoid electrocution, Smith learned the mazes of the law and directed the legal appeals that again and again postponed his sentence. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine jacket (price clipped). 8vo. 364pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 560 pages. 7.75x5.06x8.11 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 560 pages. 7.75x5.06x8.11 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 560 pages. 7.75x5.06x8.11 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited/Numbered First Edition. #258 of 450 copies. Dust soiling to white covers and small top corner crease to front cover. Otherwise very good+. Stephen Fabian;Charles McGill;James B. Wandesford;Virgil Finlay;Clark Ashton Smith (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Derleth's fourth collection of stories focusing on his imitation of Sherlock Holmes, who he names Solar Pons. A 12mo or small octavo of 7-3/4 inches, one of 2,079 copies printed for Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin (Derleth's home town), by Collegiate Press, George Banta Company, Menasha, Wisconsin in 1958, though most of these stories appeared in pulp detective magazines a few years earlier. Jacket front flap NOT price clipped: original $4.00 price showing. There is a rectangular brownn stain to front endpapers where it appears a sulfurous paper clipping was once laid in, however. Did young Derleth write to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, circa 1928, "courteously" asking if the master intended to write any further Holmes stories, as noted Sherlockian scholar Vincent Starrett has reported, and did Sir Arthur "make no promises in his good-natured reply." Or did Derleth in fact (unsuccessfully) seek permission to continue the Holmes stories himself, just as he was later to expand and alter the work product of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard after those pulp authors' untimely demise -- "posthumous collaborations" which Lovecraft biographer S.T.Joshi has branded "disreputable"? This collection includes The Adventures of the Devil's Footprints, of the Grice-Paterson Curse, of the Penny Magenta, of the Trained Cormorant, nine others. 261 pp. Jacket by Frank Utpatel (illustrator).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Collector's edition. Octavo, xxvi, 764 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with gold print. Boards in black leather, decorative gilt design. Text block has gilt edges, moire endpapers, red ribbon marker. Illustrated: color frontispiece portrait, b&w plates (drawings). Contains: A Study in Scarlet; The Sign of the Four; the twelve adventures originally published as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"; and the twelve adventures originally published as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1410088. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited to 2000 copies, hardcover in black cloth with spine lettered in green, clean tight and unmarked, pages crisp and bright; warmly inscribed and signed by Derleth on front free endpaper; dust jacket not price-clipped and protected in archival plastic, has light age browning around edges, very light rubs along all edges. Frank Utpatel (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Limited Edition. Stated at copyright: "This first edition limited to 450. This is No. '18 of 50 Bound, For Floyd Peill'" Essentially, one of fifty limited hardcover first editions. Large 9" x 11" oversize design. Jet black full cloth boards, crisp gilt impressed cover and spine titles, fine; protected in clear acetate sleeve. Pages near fine; few with slight discoloration; no writing. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Beautifully and uniquely illlustrated by several talented artists with macabre and humored imagery throughout. Nine full-page designs with vignettes and decoration throughout. Near fine unique and limited rarity. The introduction or prefatory section written by Gerry de la Ree, the author and publisher, explains how Charles Desmarais Gardette's poem, "The Fire-Fiend," was published a decade following Poe's death, and was initially promoted as an unpublished poem of Poe, and not Gardette's work himself. It was explained that this poem was pivotal in the development of Poe's most famed lyrical poem, "The Raven." But, even though questioned at initial publication with the accompanying Gardette letter of explanation by the New York Saturday Press editors (with a simple by-line: "We don't see it"), the Gardette piece was then reprinted as a work of Poe in several publications through the mid nineteenth century. Following this is Charles Gardette's actual poem, "The Fire-Fiend - A Nightmare," dynamically illustrated by Stephen Fabian. A unique stand alone piece of horror fantasy in its own right. Then to enhance the story and lore, a reprinting of the 1865 volume written by Gardette to explain the events of this hoaxed poem not of E. A. Poe. It is presented here in fine facsimile form of the original leaves. And finally, the masterpiece by Edgar himself, The Raven, also intriguingly illustrated with a variety of contributing artists. Apprx. 100 pages. Insured post. Edgar Allan Poe's hazy narrative begins on a night in December when "The Raven" haunts the unnamed narrator who sits reading "forgotten lore" to sublimate the loss of his love, Lenore. A "rapping at his chamber door" reveals nothing, yet excites his soul to "burning". A similar rapping, slightly louder, is heard at his window. When he investigates, a raven enters his chamber. Paying no attention, the raven perches atop a bust of Pallas high above the door. Amused by the raven's comically serious disposition, the man asks that the bird tell him its name. The raven's only answer is "Nevermore". The narrator is surprised that the raven can talk, though at this point it has said nothing further. The narrator remarks to himself that his "friend" will soon fly out of his life, just as "other friends have flown before". The raven responds again with "Nevermore". The narrator reasons that the bird learned the word "Nevermore" from some "unhappy master" and that it is the only word it knows. Regardless, the narrator pulls his chair directly in front of the raven, determined to learn more. He thinks for a moment, and his mind wanders to his lost Lenore. He thinks the air grows denser and feels the presence of angels, and wonders if God is sending him a sign that he is to forget Lenore. The bird again replies in the negative, suggesting that he can never be free of his memories. The narrator becomes angry, calling the raven a "thing of evil". Finally, he asks whether he will be reunited with Lenore in Heaven. When the raven responds with its typical "Nevermore", he is enraged, and, calling it a liar, commands the bird to return to the "Plutonian shore", - but it does not move. The narrator's final admission is that his soul is trapped beneath the raven's shadow and shall be lifted "Nevermore". Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fabian, Stephen; McGill, Charles; Wandesford, James; Finlay, Virgil; Smith, Clark Ashton (illustrator).…

dj. First Edition. First Printing, one of 2000 copies. Octavo; black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in green on spine; dustjacket; 261, [1]pp. Very Near Fine. Dustjacket lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears and hint of sunning to spine; VG+. Collection of 13 stories featuring Derleth's fictional detective Solar Pons. With an introduction by Edgar W. Smith.…