Published by American Heritage Publishing Company,, New York:, 1974
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Near fine in turqoise cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine which is also uniformly tanned. In a near fine slipcase with an illustrated paste down label on one panel. 344 pages followed by an index. Extensively illustrated with photographs and reproductions of period art work to provide the nautical history of The Colonial Seafarer, The Revolution at Sea, The World Traders, The Age of Combat Sail, The Whaling Enterprise, The Years of Primacy, The Clipper Ship, The Persistence of Sail and a selective guide to Maritime Museums.
Published by collier books, 1962
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. 257 very good - fine paperback,
Published by American Heritage Publishing Company Inc., New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0070358478 ISBN 13: 9780070358478
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine book in clean fresh blue cloth covers with 1/4 yellow linen strip to spine; very bright gilt titles to spine and picture of an eagle to front. Internally very fine and free of inscriptions; copiously and beautifully illustrated. The dust jacket is fine; one or two very tiny rubs. A lovely copy.
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1964-6. Hakluyt Society Second Series, numbers 123, 128, 129 and 130,, 1964
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. hardback, 8vo, complete in 4 volumes, xii,406;xiv,798pp, 33 plates, 9 maps, edges slightly browned, texts clean and tight, no inscriptions, blue cloth gilt, Very Good / Fair dustwrappers; wrappers rubbed and edges browned, frayed at corners and spine ends.
Published by MJF Books, New York, 1965
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Publishers black quarter-leather, lettered in red on spine, xvi, 848pp. Illustrated. Some markings on boards, o/w about fine in d/w. The great ghost stories of all time, from authors such as Poe, Stevenson, Blackwood, Wharton, Saki, Machen and others.
Published by Cassell
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition copy. No jacket with knocks and blemishes to boards and spine that is commensurate with books age. Contents are tanned but overall clear.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Ward, Lynd (illustrator). First Thus. Collection of 27 ghost stories by leading authors, included R. L. Stevenson, Poe, Alexander Woolcott, Guy de Maupassant, O. Henry, Saki, Algernon Blackwood, & more, in 486 pages with stunning woodcut illustrations by Lynd Ward, which are what make this collection truly special! Orig. published in 1937 as "The Haunted Omnibus,'' this is the First Edition of the reprint by Blue Ribbon books from 1942 (First, Thus). Hardcover small 8vo has green cloth-covered boards with yellow lettering to spine. Condition is VG: interior is completely clean & unmarked, save for former owner's name in pen & old sticker inside front cover, moderate offsetting to all endpapers. Binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with moderate tanning, heaviest to edges. Light faded splotch to front board near lower spine, other smaller spots & rubbing to extremities, bumped corners. The slightly clipped DJ is Good+, with a great cover image, but rubbing, creasing, & small chips to extremities & all corners, minor chipping at both ends of spine; nicely protected in nonreflective mylar cover by previous owner. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Lynd Ward (illustrator). 1st. Top corner bumped, edges scraped. Some scuffing; 8vo; 848 pages Good to boards. Light soil on spine. Cover slightly warped.
Published by Blue Ribbon Books, Garden City, New York, 1941
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lynd Ward (illustrator). Reprint. 486pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bright light green cloth over boards with the title stamped in yellow on the backstrip. Endpapers heavily darkened; two inscriptions on the front free endpaper, one of which is a contemporary gift inscription. In a dust jacket, backed with tape along the edges and folds, and with several closed tears (one measuring 4") to the surface of the spine and surrounding area of the rear panel. Checklist on Basic Books printed on the reverse. Contents: "August Heat" (W. F. Harvey); "The Half Pint Flask" (DuBose Heyward); "The Brahman, the Thief, and the Ghost" (The Panchatantra); "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" (M. R. James); "The Yellow Wall Paper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman); "The King of the World" (A. E. Coppard); "Perez" (W. L. George); "The Wendigo" (Algernon Blackwood); "The Furnished Room" (O'Henry); "The Screaming Skull" (F. Marion Crawford); "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs); "The Horla" (Guy de Maupassant); "Laura" (Saki); "The White People (Arthur Machen); "Concerning Phantoms" (Pliny the Younger); Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson); "The Story of Ming-y" (Lafcadio Hearn); "The Beast with Five Fingers" (W. F. Harvey); "Adam and Eve and Pinch Me" (A. E. Coppard); "Where Their Fire is Not Quenched" (May Sinclair); "The Second Kalandar's Tale" (Arabian Nights); "Full Fathom Five" (Alexander Woollcott); "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (Ambrose Bierce); "The Ghost-Ship" (Richard Middleton); "William Wilson" (Edgar Allan Poe); "The Feather Cloak of Hawaii" (Johannes C. Andersen); "The Gentleman from America" (Michael Arlen). An excellent anthology of classic ghost stories, illustrated by famous wordless novel illustrator Lynd Ward. Originally published as "The Haunted Omnibus" by Farrar & Rinehart in 1937.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart Inc. New York., 1937
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The book is bound in bright black boards with bright white letters on the front cover & spine. There is very light wear on the cover corners. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. Previous owner's address label inside the front cover. Very, very light foxing on the front endpaper. Date 1937 and publisher's seal on the verso. Very nice copy.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1937
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xvi [1-2] 3-848, 62 black and white illustrations, fifteen full-page, by Lynd Ward, publisher's flexible blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light green. First edition. An excellent anthology collecting 42 weird and supernatural tales by W. F. Harvey, M. R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lafcadio Hearn, May Sinclair, Ambrose Bierce, John Collier, Edith Wharton, and many others. Stunning illustrations by Lynd Ward. Ward's "most outstanding achievement was a series of sixty [i.e. 62] illustrations for THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS in 1937, one of the major ghost story collections published before World War II." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 450. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 978. Bleiler (1978), p. 117. Reginald 08538. Neat owner's name on front free endpaper. Mild bump to upper right corner of front cover, a nearly fine copy. (#173839).
Hardcover. Condition: VG+. . Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. A large collection of supernatural stories, published in the USA by Farrar & Rinehart, and abridged edition was published in 1941 under the title "Great Ghost Stories of the World". Contribution by many of the greats including, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, R. L. Stevenson, Ambrose Bierce and many more. Foreward by Alexander Laing and afterword by Edith Wharton. 62 illustrations by Lynd Ward. An important collection, rarely found with the original DJ. Book is in VG+ or better condition, some foxing on endpapers and foredge. Small stain on bottom edge, but do not penetrate into pages. Otherwise internally clean in fine condition with clean bright boards. Original DJ, with some staining and foxing, but overall in VG+ condition. Small clip on back jacket, price? Minor chipping and edgewear and now with brodart jacket. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection.