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Edité par Little, Brown & company
Vendeur : Earthlight Books, Walla Walla, WA, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. Good. No dust jacket. Clean text, tight binding, good shape for age, gold gilt top edge, light wear to exterior, deep puncture on rear cover penetrating a 1/8 of the way into the book, does not affect readability, xvi, 561 p. incl. front. 20 cm. 1898, Little, Brown & Company. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973.
Edité par Home & van Thal, [London, 1948
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-111 [112: blank], boards. First edition. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with chip (preserved) from bottom edge of front panel. (#94683).
Date d'édition : 2023
Vendeur : True World of Books, Delhi, Inde
Livre impression à la demande
LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1833 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 411 Language: French.
Edité par New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1889)., 1889
Vendeur : OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : SNEAB
Illustrated by "100 new text illustrations by Frank M. Gregory". Vignette edition. c.1860 (Ticknor & Fields/Chapman & Hall). Decorative pink, green, gilt cloth, three gilt titles: top, bottom and spine, teg. Cr.8vo. pp. [ii], iv, 420, [2]. VG+. Front hinge has small starting, small round bookseller ticket rear pastedown. Beautifully done gift copy.
Edité par 8 May On embossed letterhead of the Carlton Club London, 1866
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In very good condition. Folded twice. Clear and neat signature beneath slightly-smudged text. Written on the verge of his removal from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. Reads [Admiral Buser?] to Gallery of H of C / Tuesday May 8th. 1866 / E B Lytton . See image.
Edité par 12 Grosvenor Square London 21 July no year
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'My dear Sir/ | I think it is the 28th. thar you proposed to come to me & I hope that you & Mrs. Farrer may find it not interfering with more agreeable please to stay at least till the following Monday or Tuesday Aug 1st'.
Edité par London: 1834., Saunders and Otley,, 1834
Vendeur : Alec R. Allenson, Inc., Westville, FL, Etats-Unis
Softcover. 10th edition. Brougham, to Mr. Bulwer. [3], 88, [89]-104 p.; 21 cm. Publisher's list, 2 leaves, at end. Early work by the novelist. Disbound. Text clean and unmarked.
Edité par Without place or date. On his monogrammed letterhead
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged. He writes that he has had 'a very fine p' sent to him, and asks if Pearson might accept it. 'If you dont care about it yourself you may have friends here to whom you might like to give it. Only, unluckily, I must have back the top'. He ends with a complaint regarding a 'Bronchial cough'.
Edité par Knebworth Stevenage. 23 June, 1860
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Attached by one corner to a leaf from an autograph album. 23 lines of text in a difficult hand. He thanks him for his 'notice in L, & for the long & valuable as well as kind & flattering notice of my Novels'. He considers that the review is 'written with great talent - & is altogether the best of the kind notices of these works which I can remember to have seen'. He invites him down to Knebworth and asks whether he has 'succeeded with Lord Malm[esbur]y'. He offers help, adding 'I have never interfered about our journals, finding my general views as to the conduct to be adopted with regard to them were not accepted'.
Edité par 12 May ; Park Lane London on letterhead of the House of Commons, 1855
Vendeur : Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Royaume-Uni
Manuscrit / Papier ancien
3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with traces of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. Written in his usual difficult hand. He begins by stating that her note was forwarded to him from Knebworth. The letter continues: 'I had previously requested my Sol[icito]r. to arrange some plan, if possible by which the [tenets?] of the Deed might be performed without your intervention, or occasioning you any personal [trouble?] &c.' The solicitor has informed Lytton that he has 'not quite effected that object in a mode which will [?] you from all anxiety.' A reference to 'Mr. Greene' follows, and he continues by explaining why he was 'desirous of this', with a possible and only partially-legible reference to his long-suffering wife (as 'Lady L'?) and 'the mother'. He ends in the hope that she will visit him at Knebworth. From the papers of Lady Ann Cullum (1807-1875), wife of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum (1777-1855) of Hardwick House.
Edité par Wilson & Company, New York, 1843
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Quarto, pp. [1] 2-107 [108: blank], double columns, disbound. First U.S. edition? Issued as BROTHER JONATHAN, 18 February 1843, Quadruple Number, Extra 19. A historical novel "set in the years 1467-1471, but clearly reflects on the politically troubled 1840s in which the author was living . The ending is enigmatic, reflecting Bulwer-Lytton's own political uncertainties at the period. Historically, the most interesting feature is the novel's sympathetic portrait of Richard of Gloucester, Shakespeare's villain." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 363. A 227-page Harper edition was published in 1843 but this BROTHER JONATHAN edition probably preceded Harper's edition. Baker, Guide to Best Fiction, p. 29. Nield, A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales, pp. 43, 136 and 149 (one of Nield's fifty representative historical novels). Disbound, some scattered foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves, a very good copy. OCLC reports one copy. (#154745).
Edité par Saunders and Otley, London, 1838
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, three volumes: pp. [iii-v] vi 3-367 [368: blank]; [iii-iv] [1-2] 3-355 [356: printer's imprint]; [iii-iv] [1-2] 3-324, three-quarter calf and marbled boards. First edition. A sensational romance novel with political and criminous themes. Sadleir 387. Wolff 922. One of Bulwer-Lytton's less common novels (third on Sadleir's comparative rarity list), but a not so-very-good copy. The binding is worn and scuffed, the leaf of publisher's advertisements in volume I is missing, as is the section title following the preliminary leaves, the half title leaves of volume II and III are missing, and the last leaf of text in volume III is loose. (#173002).
Edité par George Routledge and Sons, London, 1875
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [7] 8-245 [246: blank] [247-256: publisher's ads], inserted frontispiece (portrait of the author), original dark green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, top and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition of ZICCI. The first book publication of ZICCI, being volume nine of the Knebworth Edition of Bulwer-Lytton's collected works. This volume reprints two unrelated short novels. FALKLAND, his first published novel (1827), though reprinted numerous times later in other countries, had long been out of print in England because the author disliked it. It was one of the bitter fruits of his marrying Rosina Wheeler, an act that got him disinherited by his family, thus forcing the formerly precocious (and rather precious) young author to write in a commercial vein in order to make a living. It was not well-received at the time by the public, though he scored a big hit with his next novel, PELHAM. ZICCI began to appear in periodical form in 1841 but was never finished. Instead, it was extensively re-written and became the first part of ZANONI (1842), the first of his novel-length treatments of the occult, about a brotherhood of immortals with supernatural powers. The eponymous magician hero of ZICCI finds his love of magic defeated by the magic of love in the form of the beautiful singer Isabel di Pisani. "A curious work, partly in the hyperbolic romantic style of the day, partly in the Silver Fork manner, partly Gothic. Zicci is obviously a London Corinthian buck, with all the poses and pretensions of the species . Strangely enough, the flippant boulevardism of ZICCI is occasionally more effective than the pretentiousness of ZANONI." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 303 and 304. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#152359).
Edité par Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, New-York, 1832
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
12mo, pp. [i-ix] x [11-13] 14-205 [206: blank] [207-216: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, original purple cloth, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. First edition. A miscellany of essays and fiction, including an important occult story, "Monos and Daimonos." The importance of this edition (other that the fact that it is the first edition of this collection) is that it includes "Manuscript Found in a Madhouse," (pages [197]-205), a Gothic story not included in the enlarged edition published in 1835 by Saunders and Otley in London and Harper in New York, although Bleiler says it is there. See Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 302. Wolff 961 (giving contents). Cloth spotted and stained and largely faded to brown, endpapers foxed, small chip from the lower fore-edge corner of the front free endpaper, larger chip from the lower fore-edge corner of the front flyleaf, nevertheless a nice copy of a very scarce book. (#148834).
Edité par London und New York, George Routledge and Sons., 1867
Vendeur : Antiquariat Lenzen, Düsseldorf, Allemagne
Livre Edition originale
8°. 19,5 cm x 13,5 cm. XVI, 304, XVI, 303, VIII, 312, XII, 308, XXIV, 296, XVI, 224, XVI, 304, VIII, 152 und XII, 163, XII, 308, VIII, 276 und VIII, 312, XVI, 367, XVI, 303, XVI, 464, XIV, 334, XII, 338, IV, 347, VIII, 343, 375 und 427, 315 und 289 Seiten. Grüne Leinenbände mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln auf roten Lederschildchen und Buchschmuck. Kopfgoldschnitte. Neue Ausgabe. Die Erstausgaben der Titel erschienen zwischen 1828 und 1859. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Jeder Band mit Frontispiz nach Illustrationen von Hablot K. Browne, Seidenhemdchen gebräunt. Einbände leicht berieben, an den Kapitalen etwas stärker berieben, Rückenschildchen mit winzigen Fehlstellen. Kopfschnitte angestaubt, Kopfstege teils etwas schmutzig. Vorsätze im Innenfalz eingerissen, ein vorderer Buchdeckel etwas gelockert. Vordere Vorsätze jeweils mit Blindstempel einer Buchhandlung, ein hinterer Vorsatz etwas berieben, ein anderer mit einem kleinen Ausriss. Wenige Blätter teils leicht braunfleckig, 8 Blattecken knickspurig. 3 Blätter am Fußsteg beschnitten, 15 Blattränder mit kleinen Ausrissen, alles ohne Textverlust. Gute Exemplare. New edition. The titles were first published between 1828 and 1859. English language edition. Every volume with a frontispiece after illustrations by Halblot K. Browne, the thin protective paper above always darkened. Original cloth bindings with gilt embossed titles on red leather labels on spines and gilt upper edges. Covers lightly rubbed, stronger at the upper and lower spines, labels with tiny missing parts. Upper edges dusty, upper margins of the sheets partly spotted with dirt. Endpapers partly with tears at the inner foled, one front cover a little loose. Front endpapers each with a blindstamp of a former bookshop, one endpaper in the back partly rubbed, another with a tiny missing part at the margin. Few sheets a little spotted or foxy. 8 sheets with crease marks at one corner, 3 sheets cut at the lower edge, 15 sheets with tiny missing parts at the margins, all without text loss. Good copies. Sprache: englisch.
Edité par Harper & Brothers, New-York, 1842
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
12mo, two volumes: [i-iii] iv-xiv [xv-xvi] [13] 14-218 [219: ad] [220: blank]; [1-3] 4-192 + 36-page publisher's catalogue dated "New-York, 1842" inserted at rear of volume two [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaves at front and rear, original brown cloth, printed paper labels affixed to spine panels. First U.S. edition. "As a Rosicrucian novel drenched in the cabalistic lore of secret societies, ZANONI has very interesting connections with such Gothic works as Karl Grosse's HORRID MYSTERIES (1796) and Godwin's SAINT LEON (1799). Grand in conception and saturated at the same time with Gothic melodrama, ZANONI remains a novel of spectacle whose artistic category is peculiarly its own." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-20. "In 1835, while researching books on astrology and not long before his separation from his wife, Bulwer-Lytton had a dream in which the fabric of a novel came to him. He produced an incomplete version as 'Zicci' (1838 MONTHLY CHRONICLE; in CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 1841) and then reworked it substantially as ZANONI (1842). Bearing some semblance to Charles Maturin's MELMOTH THE WANDERER (1820), this was intended to be an allegory on the human condition, but is too philosophical to work effectively at that level; as a story, however, the tale of an immortal adept and his sacrifice for love became one of the classic works of Victorian supernaturalism. In ZANONI Bulwer-Lytton created the image of the 'dweller on the threshold,' a phrase beloved by writers of weird fiction ever since. Bulwer-Lytton's work was sensationally popular in his day and had a strong influence on other writers. His occult works, along with those of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, form the basis of modern supernatural fiction." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 149. In 333. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-56. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 304. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 145 (citing the UK edition). Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp. 41-2. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 63. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 119. Bleiler (1978), p. 34. Reginald 09385. Old damp stains to endpapers and text block, endpapers foxed, spine labels rubbed and chipped, but a sound, good copy. Quite scarce in the original cloth. (#130230).
Edité par Saunders and Otley, London, 1834
Vendeur : Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
leather_bound. First edition. 341 pages. 28 x 20 cm. Large paper copy with wide text margins, ordinary copies were approx. 23 x 15 cm. Twenty-seven engraved plates -- vignettes, portrait and views. Bulwer-Lytton reached the height of popularity with the publication of a novel, "Godolphin," 1833, which he followed with this work. He coined such phrases as "the great unwashed -- pursuit of the almighty dollar -- the pen is mightier than the sword." Lovely copy, text and plates very clean, a hint of offsetting to some plates; contemporary owner inscription, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt, gilt border panels frame an elaborate gilt floral pattern within, gilt inner dentelles, minor extremity rubbing. Orig. full scarlet morocco. Aeg. Near fine.
Edité par Carey, Philadelphia, 1833
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
12mo, pp. [i-iii] iv [13] 14-227 [228: blank] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination] + 4 pages of ads precede title leaf and 24 pages of ads follow page [228], flyleaves at front and rear, original quarter brown cloth and drab boards, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. First book publication of this work which first appeared in the NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Loosely organized novel with much supernatural content, containing the intercalated short story, "The Tale of Kosem Kesamim." The narrator, bored of life, is taken by the devil Asmodeus on a tour of new sensations and "attends a witches' Sabbath, has an amour with a witch, and meets Kosem Kesamim, the greatest wizard of all time . The narrator lives for a time in Cyprolis, an underground city (allegorical for sex?). He travels to the center of the earth and sees a gigantic stone figure with countless strings emerging from it -- presumably Fate. Most of ASMODEUS AT LARGE is briskly written and entertaining, in the lively manner than Bulwer sometimes used when not writing of supernatural topics." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 300. "In the United States, where Bulwer's contemporary reputation was if anything even greater than in Britain, the author of PELHAM had a notable effect upon Edgar Allan Poe. As 'the most powerful influence on Poe's early prose writing,' Bulwer seems to stand, in the opinion of Michael Allen, behind Poe's frequent literary use of a persona and his general elaboration of the 'fictional method of self-projection.' Poe naturally drew his inspiration in this regard not only from the self-propagandizing PELHAM but more especially from Bulwer's shorter tales, such as 'Monos and Daimonos' (1830), and from the discursive ASMODEUS AT LARGE series (1833)." - Christensen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, pp. 223-224. Bulwer's work, in turn, is pretty clearly indebted to FAUST and LeSage's LE DIABLE BOITEUX. Sadleir 388. NCBEL III 918. Early owner's signature and date on the verso of rear flyleaf. Cloth faded, boards spotted and worn, paper spine label largely perished, scattered foxing throughout the text, a good copy. Quite scarce in original garb. (#164323).
Edité par Harper & Brothers, New-York, 1842
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
12mo, two volumes: pp. [i-iii] iv-xiv [xv-xvi] [13] 14-218 [219: ad] [220: blank]; [1-3] 4-192 + 36-page publisher's catalogue dated "New-York, 1842" inserted at rear of volume two [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaves at front and rear, original green cloth, printed paper labels affixed to spine panels. First U.S. edition. "As a Rosicrucian novel drenched in the cabalistic lore of secret societies, ZANONI has very interesting connections with such Gothic works as Karl Grosse's HORRID MYSTERIES (1796) and Godwin's SAINT LEON (1799) . Grand in conception and saturated at the same time with Gothic melodrama, ZANONI remains a novel of spectacle whose artistic category is peculiarly its own." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-20. "In 1835, while researching books on astrology and not long before his separation from his wife, Bulwer-Lytton had a dream in which the fabric of a novel came to him. He produced an incomplete version as 'Zicci' (1838 MONTHLY CHRONICLE; in CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 1841) and then reworked it substantially as ZANONI (1842). Bearing some semblance to Charles Maturin's MELMOTH THE WANDERER (1820), this was intended to be an allegory on the human condition, but is too philosophical to work effectively at that level; as a story, however, the tale of an immortal adept and his sacrifice for love became one of the classic works of Victorian supernaturalism. In ZANONI Bulwer-Lytton created the image of the 'dweller on the threshold,' a phrase beloved by writers of weird fiction ever since . Bulwer-Lytton's work was sensationally popular in his day and had a strong influence on other writers. His occult works, along with those of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, form the basis of modern supernatural fiction." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 149. In 333. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-56. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 304. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 145 (citing the UK edition). Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp. 41-2. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 63. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 119. Bleiler (1978), p. 34. Reginald 09385. Endpapers foxed, some minor scattered foxing in the text, a very nice, attractive copy, and quite scarce in the original cloth. (#90172).
Edité par Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill, London, 1862
Vendeur : Earl The Pearls, Edmond, OK, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket As Issued. 1st Edition. BC03B Bookplate with coat of arms of John Croft Deverell to paste downs and the bookplate of Roy Hoffman on the ffep. Bound by E. Riley & Sons. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street. Top Edge Gilt. Octavo, two volumes: [1-2] [i-iii] iv-x [1] 2-353 [354: printer's imprint]; [1-2] [1] 2-384, half title leaf in volume one, none in volume two. Blue white and Gold marbled boards, quarter bound in tan leather, with tan leather corner protectors 5 raised bands on spine with a red title panel and green author panel. Gilt decorations.
Edité par Boston: Dana Estes., 1891
Vendeur : McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 32 volume set, 9 inches tall. A rather unusual and very good looking half morocco with gilt raised bands and splendid floral gilt tooling to the panels. A former owner's gilt monogram within a floral swag on the upper boards. Gilt top edges. The deluxe 'Warwick Edition' was limited to one thousand copies of which this set is number 264. A very popular novelist through the Victorian period today he is mostly remembered for coining the phrases "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "the great unwashed". A fine set profusely illustrated.
Edité par Gowans & Gray, London and Glasgow, 1905
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-57 [58: blank] [59: ad] [60: blank], original chromolithographed parchment paper wrappers. First edition. Issued as "Gowans International Library Number 1." The first separate book publication of this famous supernatural tale. It was first published in BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE in 1859 and first appeared in book form in TALES FROM BLACKWOOD [FIRST SERIES], Volume X (n.d. 1860). The Gowans text is the long version of the story, which is usually reprinted in its short form as "The House and the Brain." The shorter version, revised and cut by Bulwer-Lytton (perhaps because he wished to use his theory of the supernatural at greater length in his novel A STRANGE STORY [1861]), "lacks both coherence and conclusion. The fuller version is both a wonderful ghost story and a well-wrought example of Bulwer-Lytton's theory of the supernatural . Bulwer Lytton's story developed from his study of spiritualism, which he had begun six years earlier, and of mesmerism, which he had undertaken thirteen years before that. Thus, 'The Haunted and the Haunters' represents nearly twenty years' study of paranormal phenomena . On the one hand, it is a chilling tale of ghosts and terror; on the other, Bulwer-Lytton's main purpose in telling the story was to illustrate his theory 'that the supernatural is Impossible, and that what is called supernatural is only a something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.' For Bulwer-Lytton, however, the laws of nature include 'the power that in the old days was called Magic' -- a power of the human will that can affect mental and physical reality and produce the apparently supernatural" - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 698-700. Bulwer-Lytton's story "implies a whole cosmos in which a physical force called Will has asserted itself against divine Idea and become the first principle behind all events and phenomena. The protagonist encounters a strangely palpable and almost invisible power, which turns out -- in the briefer and more familiar revised version of the story -- to be the volitional energy of some apparently long-dead man. This terrible man of the past has so trained and developed his will that it can operate as an active, malignant principle even beyond the bounds of his life-span. Whether Bulwer is here hinting at animal magnetism and Balzacian odic fluids or at something like Schopenhauer's impersonal cosmic Will, the universe has in any case been reduced to a battleground of opposing wills. The will that thereby concentrated and focuses its force most completely can magnetize Mejnour's 'all-pervading and invisible fluid' and so impose itself throughout space and time." - Christensen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Fiction of New Regions, p. 176. "Edward Bulwer-Lytton is probably best known in fantasy for his ghost story, 'The Haunted and the Haunters; or, the House and the Brain,' an archetypal Victorian haunted house story -- though it is profound in its assessment and investigation of the haunting, and remarkably effective in its creation of atmosphere . Bulwer-Lytton was sensationally popular in his day and had a strong influence on other writers. His occult works, along with those of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, form the basis of modern supernatural fiction." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 249. "The Haunted and the Haunters" is "the only one of Bulwer-Lytton's contributions to supernatural fiction likely to be read in the future. In it, his genuine ability to evoke moods of mystery and horror stands out. First published in BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, it has since been widely anthologized and remains a classic, perhaps the best haunted house story ever written. Its direct influence ranges from 'No. 252 Rue M. le Prince' in Ralph Adams Cram's BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE (1895) to Richard Matheson's HELL HOUSE (1971). Whatever the fate of his novels, this tale will keep Bulwer-Lytton's name alive." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 63. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 306. Bleiler (1978), p. 34. Reginald 09377. Sadleir 409. Not in Wolfe. Spine rolled, wrappers darkened (a fault common to this type of paper), otherwise a very good copy of a very fragile book. Rare. Enclosed in a custom cloth slipcase.(#106160).