Please by Richard Marsh (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book is tight and pages are clean. Heavy foxing to endpapers and some to edges. Some crumpling to top and bottom of spine. Front and spine stamped in gold. Please see photos. No Dust Jacket. First Edition 1913.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. If It Please You by Richard Marsh (First Edition) A firm copy. Mild sunning to spine, foxing to fore and bottom edges, and offset tanning to endpapers. Interior pages clean. First published in 1913, stated. Includes eleven stories of mystery and fantasy. Red cloth with gilt lettering. From the author that wrote the best selling Novel of it's time "The Beetle". BOOK.…

Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-316 + 8-page and 32-page publisher's catalogues dated "Spring 1914" and "27/1/14" respectively inserted at rear, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Mixed collection of eleven stories including several mysteries and at least one fantasy, "The Touchstone of Fortune," a long story about converting matter, including people, into gold. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 151. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Not in Wilson. Hubin (1994), p. 554. Some patchy fading around edges of front and rear covers, more so to the latter, spine panel a bit sunned, a very good copy. Scarce. (#130382).…

First edition. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A superb fine copy, the red cloth unfaded and the gilt titles bright. The contents are entirely complete with no inscriptions or stamps. Publisher's catalogue to the rear dated Spring 1914. Complete with the rare original dustwrapper which has only minor nicks to the spine tips and some rubbing and darkening of the spine. The reverse shows remnants of old paper to the spine tips. Short stories, mainly criminous. Exceptionally scarce in dustwrapper. Hubin. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…