Prichard E O (17 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Third impression of the Pearson Cheap edition, originally published in 1916 and written by Prichard and his mother. The book comprises several experiences of Flaxman Low, credited as being the first psychic detective. The stories had been previously published in periodicals and collected in 1899's The Experiences of Flaxman Low, of which this current volume contains selections only. The book is Near Fine in publisher's red cloth, with no fading or marking. There is some bumping and minor wear to the extremities. Very good dust jacket. The jacket is lovely, bright and crisp, with areas of modest wear and damage as befits an inexpensively produced 100-year-old book. There is no significant loss to the jacket at all. It is a lovely copy of a delicate book. Note that, despite Pearson's assertion on the spine, these stories are pure fiction, and delightful at that.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Some wear around edges and corners of boards and spine. Light foxing and staining on boards, edges and endpapers. Book is a bit worn, but is otherwise in good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 117pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Grey cloth, lettered, ruled and decorated in black. Backstrip ends and corner tips gently rubbed. A somewhat shaken copy, with the binding cracked and tender at the title page and at one other gathering, and a single text leaf detached and laid-in. Paperstock toned. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a US book dealer inkstamp to the base of the front pastedown. A fair copy. A pseudonymous collection of tales concerning an occult detective, one of the earliest such publications (these six stories were originally published in 'Pearson's Magazine').

Condition: Very good. First abridged edition. Small 8vo. Original dark grey cloth blocked in black. Usual mild toning to margins; cloth a little bumped and rubbed at extremities, but overall VG. An attractive abridgment of the weird & supernatural tales of psychic detective Flaxman Low, written by mother & son team 'E. & H. Heron'. The stories first appeared in Pearson's Magazine (1899). Hesketh was a prolific turn-of-the-century author, creator of then then very popular sadistic bandit character Don Q., as noted by Bleiler now "deservedly forgotten". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. 12mo. 116 + (2) + (2)pp. Publisher's original grey cloth covers with black lettering on front & spine, 4 vertical black stripes with small roundels every 5cm along on front. White eps. 2ppbook list at rear. Slight darkening to spine, front & rear bottom corners bumped, 0.2cm shelf knocks/rubs top/bottom of spine, slight grubby/fox marks on covers. Contents slight browning throughout else clean & tight. Attractive copy. ***. VG.

First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 117. Two pages of adverts at rear. Grey cloth decorated and lettered in black. Six stories of the occult detective Flaxman Low.On the front free endpaper is what seems to be a Japanese ownership inscription and on the title-page is a Japanese inkstamp. Very good. No dustwrapper.

First edition, first printing in the 12 individual original parts. Publisher's pictorial paper covers. 12 volumes, loosely laid into the publisher's original cloth cases. With 95 black and white illustrations throughout the text by Benjamin Edward Minns. Each volume in good or very good condition, the bindings firm with some rubbing and chipping to the extremities, resulting in areas loss to the spines of most volumes. The contents, with some toning to the cheap quality paperstock and foxing to the occasional page, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The covers of four volumes are detached (Jan 1899, April 1899, May 1899, June 1899), with two rear covers missing (Jan 1899, May 1899). The publisher's green cloth cases, decorated in green, brown and gilt, are in near fine condition with a little rubbing and bumping at the edges. All volumes are in entirely original condition, without repair or restoration. Rare in this form. A collection of supernatural mysteries featuring Flaxman Low, who is considered one of the earliest occult detectives. 'Real Ghost Stories' was issued in serialized form by Cyril Arthur Pearson in two series of six parts between 1898 and 1899 written by Hesketh V. Prichard and Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard under the pen name E. and H. Heron. Every six months the publisher would take the unsold stock of the individual monthly parts and bind them into decorated cloth boards supplying a new title page and discarding the original wrappers in the process. The first edition in book form, published by Pearson under the title 'Ghosts: Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low', collected all 12 stories, with a frontispiece and 12 illustrations (far fewer than the 95 published in Pearsons Magazine). (Bleiler) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Condition: Fair. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1916. Reissue of the 1899 Edition (sometimes seen described as a Second Edition or Impression), containing only the first six of that edition's twelve stories. 12mo; 117pp + publisher's imprint & 2pp ads. Publisher's blue-gray cloth with dark blue/black lettering, Boards heavily rubbed and pushed along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a good amount of soiling / smudging to surface and scuffing down joints. Front joint cracked. Half title, full title, and a couple interior pages cleanly separated but laid in, with a few other interior pages close to the same. Opens easily between gatherings with occasional gaps between. Binding feels a bit loose but otherwise holding. Pages toned and brittle, but unmarked. Rough copy, but complete. Collection of stories following the adventures of Flaxman Low -- fiction's first Psychic Detective -- published under pseudonym by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard. The stories originally appeared in Pearson's Magazine from 1898 - 1899, with a first book collection by Pearson in 1899. [Bleiler Supernatural 799].

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