fanu sheridan pritchett v s (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Octavo, 288 pages. In Good condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small taped tears at spine ends and flap corners, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Price unclipped: "8s. 6d. net". Boards in green cloth; slight wear to spine caps, light bump to front panel. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1399169. FP New Rockville Stock.

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. None (illustrateur). First edition. A smart first edition of this collection of short stories from Irish writer Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu. First edition. A collection of five Gothic horror and mystery stories, published the year before the author's death, presented as selections from the posthumous papers of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius. The title is an allusion to 1 Corinthians 13:12, a Biblical passage which describes humanity as perceiving the world "through a glass, darkly". Written by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. He was one of the foremost ghost story writers of the Victorian era with his works being central to the development of the genre during the nineteenth century. With an introduction by Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett, a British writer and literary critic. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities and fading to the spine. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with chipping and light loss to the extremities. Closed tears to the spine with the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

HARD BACK GREEN. Etat : FAIR. JACKET: TORN DJ. FIRST ED. 1st thus.General wear and rubbed cover. Bookplate on fep. Gold gilt on spine. Creased.tears and chipped dust jacket. Tightbinding. DATE PUBLISHED: 1947 EDITION: FIRST ED 288.