Devil by Collier John, First Edition (9 results)

Evelyn Wolfe (illustrator). The Devil and All by John Collier, Nonesuch Press, 1934, 125 pages. SIGNED and numbered 373 of 1000 copies printed. Illustrations by Evelyn Wolfe. Book is sound and square with square corners. Gilt on the front cover is beginning to flake off. Book is square with a sound binding and square corners. Size is 5.5" x 9.375". Comes with a tenzacover book protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cover a bit soiled, spot to front endpaper corner, internally very good. No. 560 of 1000 signed by author, signed limited edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback original cloth. Limited ed 28/1000 signed by the author. Wood engraved frontis by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Slightest wear only. (q25). Signed by Author(s).

Blair Hughes-Stanton (illustrator). First edition. A collection of six stories Bleiler called "one of the great fantasy collections." Number 238 of 1,000 copies SIGNED BY COLLIER. Intended for distribution in both the UK and U.S. Frontis wood engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Small 4to green buckram stamped in gilt on spine and with three gold inlays lettered in black on front. Originally issued with clear plastic dust jacket with gold paper flaps. This copy with a six-inch portion of flap affixed to rear board. Light rubbing to spine and inlays otherwise near fine.

First Edition. Limited edition, no.171 of 1000. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 123 pages : illustrations ; 24cm. Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Set in Times New Roman and Ultra Bodoni and printed on Japon vellum. Frontispiece wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton. One of 1,000 copies signed by the author. Green cloth over bevelled boards, title gilt down spine, three inlaid silver foil panels on the front board titled in black. Clear plastic dust-jacket l 'These stories are written about devils because, to give them their due, devils are neither miners, pesants, deck-hands or any other sort of human beings, 1934, vintage. They are, therefore, exactly as as black as they are painted; they are one's privatte nightmare, with which one may do whatever one pleases. How uperior to the human race, which is not private, and with which even Sir Oswald Mosley may not do what he pleases!' (FM). Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 124, [2]. Six fantasy stories. Frontispiece wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Titles in silver panels on front cover and in gilt on spine.One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author.Light spotting to endpapers. The silver panels on front board are oxidised. Very good in good, chipped and torn ''transmatic'' dustwrapper (acetate with paper flaps, in this case the flaps being gilt).

First Edition. Limited edition, no.171 of 1000. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 123 pages : illustrations ; 24cm. Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Limited to 1000 copies, No. 510, SIGNED by the Author on the colophon. Book is Near Fine in dark green linen cloth over bevelled boards, spine gilt with gilt to front board, in publisher's original cellophane dustwrapper with gold paper flaps (a little tarnished). All edges untrimmed. The British issue (copies in the U.S. with Random House). 124pp. Six short stories. Frontispiece illustration wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Q20808. Signed by Author(s).