Gate Death Diary: First Edition (5 results)
Language: English
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1906
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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Add to basketHard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Corners a bit rubbed, ink name on front endpaper. 1906 Hard Cover. v, [1], 267, [5] pp. Ads follow text. Blue cloth, brown morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. The author, Arthur Christopher Benson, was notable for his ghost stories, and for contributing lyrics to Edward Elgar's Coronation Ode. Here Benson ruminates on his own mortality through the lens of his Christian beliefs during a prolonged illness (June 16 - October 14). He lived nearly another twenty years after the book's publication.…
Published by Putnam's Knickerbocker Press, N Y, 1906
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Reed Books The Museum of Fond Memories, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.Reed Books The Museum of Fond Memories
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition First Edition. Ex-Library.
Published by Putnam, New York, 1906
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good plus/ hardcover. First US. Pages brown. Some margin writing and underlining in pencil on some pages. Name in ink on front endpaper. Name plate inside front cover. Corners bent. Edges of spine rubbed. Spine brown and title on spine rubbed off. Top edges of pages Gold gilt.…
Published by NY & London: Putnam's, 1906., 1906
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, CanadaWilliam Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop
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Add to basketFirst American edition. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the title on a bed of red. Top edge gilt. A bit of discoloration of cloth at lower spine and edges, a clean very good copy generally. The British edition was published by Smith, Elder in the same year. Written in the form of diary entries.
Published by London; Smith, Elder, & Co., 1906., 1906
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Keel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA., Whitley Bay, United KingdomKeel Row Books. ABA/ ILAB / PBFA.
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Add to basketHard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, vii, [1], 231, [1]. Bound in original publishers' moss green cloth over boards; gilt wreath shaped ornament to spine with gilt spine titles, green silk ribbon place-marker. Cloth rubbed and lightly soiled with no tears, pastedown papers at hinges cracked but firm and secure. Light scattered foxing to prelims and back endpapers. Some passages underlined and annotated in pencil in an early twentieth century hand. A tight, square, Very Good copy. Unusual early thantalogical study following a traumatic near death experience. Anonymously published by A. C. Benson, who is perhaps better known for his prolific ghost story writing, and posthumously attributed "psychotic episodes", vividly describes visual and auditory hallucinations, ruminations,and his life flashing before him. A fascinating read for anyone interested in Death Studies.…
