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Edité par Stein and Day Publishers, New York, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0812828569ISBN 13 : 9780812828566
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-128, illustrations, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as BOOK OF THE SUPERNATURAL. Miscellany of material by and about James that includes previously uncollected articles, "The Story of Bulbul," a translation of an Indian fairy tale, and two ghost stories, "The Experiment" and "A Vignette," by James. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 8-40. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#159012).
Edité par Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Cambridge, 1900
Vendeur : Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original blue-green paper wrappers, lettered in black to both panels and spine. Uncut and unopened. Minimal edgewear to (oversize) wrappers, a little offsetting to half-title, otherwise a very near fine copy with a clean, unbroken spine. First edition. No. XXXIII of the publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. A bibliography by the Fellow and Tutor of King's College and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, who would later become better known as the author of some of the most unnerving supernatural stories in the English language. An extremely well preserved, unread copy.
Edité par Edward Arnold, London, 1920
Vendeur : B. B. Scott, Fine Books (PBFA), London, UK, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : PBFA
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Second impression. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth, title with spider web motif to front panel, spine leaning a touch, general wear to extremities, old liquid stain has cause some wrinkling to front, and still showing to front paste-down (see photo), some light spotting to text else a very good copy, ink ownership to front endpaper with faint evidence of old pencil price, lacking the scarce jacket - an uncommon second printing of this classic ghost story collection. Contains: The Residence at Whitminster; The Diary of Mr. Poynter; An Episode of Cathedral History; The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance; Two Doctors.
Edité par Ash-Tree Press, Penyffordd, Chester, 1995
Vendeur : John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, Etats-Unis
Later edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 300 copies. The Ash-Tree Press edition adds a new introduction by Rosemary Pardoe. The second book published by the Ash-Tree Press and their first hardcover volume, preceded by LADY STANHOPE'S MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL TALES. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (18520).
Edité par Ash-Tree Press, Penyffordd, Chester, 1995
Vendeur : John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, Etats-Unis
Later edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 300 copies. The Ash-Tree Press edition adds a new introduction by Rosemary Pardoe. The second book published by the Ash-Tree Press and their first hardcover volume, preceded by LADY STANHOPE'S MANUSCRIPT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL TALES. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (22660).
Edité par Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1922
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7 [8-10] 11-172, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Gilbert James, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge rough-trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. "A semi-juvenile story told in the form of a long letter to a young friend . Light, fanciful, mildly ironic, and very pleasurable reading." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 914. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-192. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 234. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07816. A touch of rubbing to spine ends, corner tips and along outer joints, several light stains to rear cover, mild foxing to first few and last few leaves, top edge dusty, front hinge starting, still an attractive very good copy of a book usually found in retched condition. (#156144).
Edité par Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1922
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7 [8-10] 11-172, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Gilbert James, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge rough-trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. "A semi-juvenile story told in the form of a long letter to a young friend . Light, fanciful, mildly ironic, and very pleasurable reading." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 914. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-192. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 234. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07816. Former owner's name in ink on front pate-down neatly erased, later gift inscription on front free endpaper. Slight binding lean, Scattered minor foxing to text block, a very good copy. (#90573).
Edité par J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London and Toronto, 1930
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Large octavo, pp. 240, 100 drawings by G. E. Chambers and 24 photographs, original two-part back and red cloth. First edition. The red cloth is faded as usual, otherwise this would be a fine copy. The dust jacket, priced five shillings net on the front flap has just a bit of sunning to the spine panel, but is otherwise a nearly fine example. Uncommon in the jacket. (#170252).
Edité par Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1922
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7 [8-10] 11-172, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Gilbert James, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge rough-trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. "A semi-juvenile story told in the form of a long letter to a young friend . Light, fanciful, mildly ironic, and very pleasurable reading." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 914. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-192. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 234. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07816. 1922 Christmas gift inscription at the top edge of the half title page. A touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, mild foxing to first few and last few leaves, top edge dusty, an attractive, very good copy of a book often found in retched condition. (#170624).
Edité par Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1922
Vendeur : John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7 [8-10] 11-172, seven inserted plates with illustrations by Gilbert James, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge rough-trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. "A semi-juvenile story told in the form of a long letter to a young friend . Light, fanciful, mildly ironic, and very pleasurable reading." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 914. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-192. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 234. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07816. Mild foxing to first few and last few leaves, top edge dusty. Front hinge starting, a touch of rubbing to spine ends, corner tips and outer joints, several light stains to rear cover, an attractive very good copy of this book. (20059).
Edité par Ash-Tree Press, Ashcroft, British Columbia, 2001
ISBN 10 : 1553100247ISBN 13 : 9781553100249
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Livre Edition originale
Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. A definitive edition of the supernatural fiction of James, including stories and fragments left out of the collected edition of 1931, as well as writings by James about the ghost story and secondary material about this author, one of the chief architects of the twentieth-century ghost story. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#162276).
Edité par Edward Arnold, London, 1904
Vendeur : John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi [xii] 1 [2] 3-270 [271-272: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan buckram, front and spine panels stamped in orange and black, rear panel stamped in orange, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. The first printing is found with and without an inserted 16 page publisher's catalog of books, this copy does not have it and no priority has been determined concerning it. "The first and best of James's classic collections of stories . He was a consummate artist of the creepy tale, and his best works are literary gems." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-108. ". author of some of the most frightening and formally perfect ghost stories ever written." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 233-35. "His first collection, GHOST-STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, is generally taken to mark the beginning of the modern era of supernatural fiction . In the opinion of many the foremost modern writer of supernatural fiction." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 279. ". a literary weird fictionist of the very first rank ." - H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, pp. 100-05. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 103-04. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 911. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 289-93. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-125. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07817. Neat inked name to upper front free end paper, offsetting to end papers, some mild foxing to prelims, mild darkening to spine, a nearly fine copy. (27969).