Return by Mare Walter, Signed (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-312. Scarce first issue without the catalogue to the rear. Spine dulled, light offsetting, mild spotting to preliminary leaves. Clean pages and a tight binding. a very good plus, bright copy of the scarce first issue, first state. Signed via a laid in short typed letter with an autograph from the author to a correspondent. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Number 241 in a signed limited edition of 250 copies only. Octavo, pp. [6], 309, [1]. Publishers' grey quarter buckram with paper-covered boards; gilt titles to grey leather spine label; fore-edge and lower edge uncut. Cloth lightly foxed, with surface scuff to lower board; spine tips and corners a little rubbed. A hint of sunning to top edge of upper board. Minor foxing to text-block edge otherwise contents clean and crisp with MacAulay armorial bookplate to front paste-down bearing the motto "Tha Cunnarton Mils" which translates as "Dangers are Sweet" from Scottish gaelic. A very good copy. Second of only two full-length supernatural novels by prolific poet and author Walter De La Mare (1873-1950), these supernatural novels and his eerie short stories were admired by master of the macabre H. P. Lovecraft. Ashley, Mike: Who's Who in Horror & Fantasy Fiction, pp 65-6; Tuck, Donald H: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume I p 133.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Quarter linen over grey paper boards. Gilt lettered spine, with title in gilt on green leather label. Corners bumped and worn, spine ends bumped, and the leather spine label a little chipped around the sides, the cloth worn through near the spine foot, the boards lightly scuffed. Bookplate of Norman Endicott engraved by Leo Wyatt to the rear endpaper. Edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, this is no. 148. Signed by Walter de la Mare. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. 1922 Revised Edition. This Is A Signed Number Edition Of 250 Copies Of Which This Is No 69. 310 Rough-Cut Pages On Laid Paper. Minor Rubbing To Edges/Corners And Around Spine Label, Plus Some Marks To Boards (Mainly To Rear And Less So To Front. Pages Very Clean And Bright With Only Some Very Minor Foxing Spots To Prelims And Page Edges. Binding Is Sound. Free From Ownership Inscriptions. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. No Dustjacket. Near Fine condition. This Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty (250) copies of which this is No 90. It is signed by the author. Grey stiff card boards with light brown cloth spine. Dark green leather tab to spine with the title and author stamped in gilt. Date stamped in gilt to heel of spine. Boards protected by original sellophane covering. The book is contained in its original purpose made light blue cardboard box which is now rubbed and torn to edges with one side missing. 309 Pages, untrimmed edges.

Hardcover. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Supernatural novel, first published in 1910, this edition revised. ''First published in 1910. Revised Edition, 1922'' on copyright page. Publishers' grey quarter buckram with paper-covered boards; gilt titles to grey leather spine label; fore-edge and lower edge uncut. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered copies signed by the author. This is no 117. Covers marked and dust-soiled, a VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 9 x 6", cloth backed boards, 309pp, covers rubbed and browned, extremities bumped and fraying, contents with some finger soiling; still, an unopened copy, LIMITED TO 250 NUMBERED COPIES (this one #180) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WALTER DE LA MARE.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author. Very Good. A scarce inscribed copy of the first issue (without the ads in the rear) of uncommon De La Mare title. Inscribed in ffep: "Walter de la Mare with best wishes". Slight discolouration at the head and tail of spine, some unravelling / splitting of cloth around top of the spine. Several dealer notes in the front of the book in pencil, slight lean, foxing on edges and minor foxing internally. VG book. "A metaphysical novel about personal indentity and spirtual freedom. - Bleiler 499", Barron 3-58. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection. Signed.

DE LA MARE, WALTER. The Return. London: W. Collins Sons, [1922]. [6], 309, [1] p. Full red crushed levant morocco, spine gilt in compartments, turn-ins gilt, watered silk endpapers, by Cuneo. Cloth slipcase. One or two very tiny scuff marks on spine, else a fine copy. Engraved card of John F. Cuneo laid in. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author. The revised edition of De La Mare's classic horror tale, originally published in 1910 and here in a lush Cuneo binding.