Shiel, M. P. The Invisible Voices. London: Richards, [1935]. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-304. Original orange cloth, front panel stamped in blind and black, spine panel stamped in black. Attached to front pastedown is the bookplate of Malcolm Ferguson, a collector and minor contributor to the pulps. Even fading to spine panel, a bit of acidic offsetting to first and last pages (an endemic flaw probably) and very light foxing to top of edge block, otherwise a bright fine copy. #3405. $100. The author's fifth and last collection of stories, loosely linked here in a decameron-type frame. Several count as fantasy or science fiction, the stand-out perhaps being "The Place of Pain," in which "the mad negro philosopher Podd places a stone in a river so as to form the water into a giant telescope. What he sees drives men mad, and makes it fortunate his secret died with him." -- Morse, The Works of M. P. Shiel (1948), p. 106-7, commending elsewhere the high quality of Shiel's short fiction in general and ranking it with that of Saki, O'Henry and Ambrose Bierce. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-177. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years #2030. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 195.

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Titre: The Invisible Voices
�diteur: Richards, London
Date de parution: 1935
Reliure: Hardback
�dition: First Edition.
�tat de l'article: Very Good

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When I began my bookselling business in 1996 I called it "Eldritch Books" because that adjective at least partly covered the type of material I offered (and because its similarity to my own surname seemed so -- eldritch). "Ghost stories" would be another handy, if somewhat reductive, term. Most of it is fiction from the 19th and early 20th century with a strong emphasis on the fantastic. Since the most familiar and relevant genre terms in use today -- "science fiction," "fantasy," "supernatural," "horror" -- were not so much in use when these books were first published, pegging them that way can be anachronistic. But that should give you the general idea. I don't have much in the way of American pulp (either in magazine or specialty press book form) but otherwise my interests range widely from high-brow to middle-brow to low-brow to amateur/eccentric. You're more likely to find rare and obscure works here than high spots. (Or at least they're obscure now, whatever their status was when first published.) In 2001 I went to work for L. W. Currey as cataloguer and general assistant. Since 2014 I've been back working on my own. I have exhibited at convention fairs (such as WFC and Readercon) in the past. I began collecting and studying antiquarian fantasy around 1980. Some of my essays have appeared in genre publications such as NYRSF, Wormwood and F&SF. I tend to carefully research my inventory and write extensive notes. (If another dealer wishes to make use of any of these notes, I'd appreciate the courtesy of putting such excerpts in quotes and giving proper attribution to me. That's what I do when I quote from any of my reference works.) I will be gradually listing my inventory on ABE over the coming years. I hope you find something of interest.

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