william robert chambers grant allen (6 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. xiii, 573 pages ; 22 cm ; ISBN 9780760703533, 0760703531 OCLC 41973682 ; blue and black cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Ghosts / Anon -- Schalken the painter/ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- M. Anastasius / Dinah Maria Mulock -- The lost room / Fitz-James O'Brien -- No. 1 Branch Line : the signalman / Charles Dickens -- Haunted / Anon -- The romance of certain old clothes / Henry James -- John Granger / Mary E. Braddon -- The ghost in the mill and The ghost in the Cap'n Brown House / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Poor pretty Bobby / Rhoda Broughton -- The new pass / Amelia B. Edwards -- The white and the black / Erckmann-Chatrian -- The underground ghost / J.B. Harwood -- Christmas Eve on a haunted hulk / Frank Cowper -- Dog or demon? / Theo Gift -- A ghost from the sea / J.E.P. Muddock -- A set of chessmen / Richard Marsh -- The judge's house / Bram Stoker. Pallinghurst Barrow / Grant Allen -- The mystery of the semi-detached / E. Nesbit -- Sister Maddelena / Ralph Adams Cram -- The trainer's ghost / Lettice Galbraith -- An original revenge / W.C. Morrow -- Caulfield's crime / Alice Perrin -- The bridal pair / Robert W. Chambers -- The watcher / Robert Benson -- The spectre in the cart / Thomas Nelson Page -- H.P. / S. Baring-Gould -- Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The story of the Green House, Wallington / Allen Upward -- The Slype House / A.C. Benson -- A ghost-child / Bernard Capes. The bead necklace / Alice Perrin -- A dead man's bargain / Clive Pemberton -- The house that was lost / Tom Gallon -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- The doll's ghost / F. Marion Crawford -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- The forbidden floor / Alexander Harvey -- The shadow / E. Nesbit -- The gateway of the monster / William Hope Hodgson ; "This collection first published in the UK by Robinson Publishing and in the United States by Carol & Graf Publishers, as The mammoth book of Victorian & Edwardian ghost stories."--Title page verso ; collects 40 of the best ghost stories ever written from the genre's golden age--1839 to 1910. Readers will find traditional 19th-century English and American supernatural yarns, chilling fireside tales, and well-crafted eerie stories from such notables as Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1888; this volume contains complete serializations of 1 Victorian novel and other novelettes and short stories: This Mortal Coil. By Grant Allen; and a quite scarce early title by Fred M. White: 'The Silver Stream: an Idyl of the Wye.' Also stories by T. W. Speight and others Bound in dark green cloth with spine lettered and decorated in gilt. This is the true First Edition of these novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. This short novel was the fourth written by White, who thus begins a long storied career writing mystery and science fiction. Very Good condition, mild overall handling wear, text clean and tight.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1891; this volume contains complete serializations of 2 Victorian novels and one novelette: Grant Allen: Dumaresq's Daughter; AND J. Maclaren Cobban: A Soldier and a Gentleman; AND T. W. Speight: The Heir of Rothwell Chase. Bound in dark brown library buckram, ex-library with the usual marks [discarded]. Pages lightly age-browned and somewhat brittle; there are a couple short edge tears/frays, but none affecting the text. This is the true First Edition of all 3 novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. scarce, I can find no other publication of the Speight title.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1886; this volume contains complete serializations of 3 Victorian novels and other novelettes and short stories: In All Shades. by Grant Allen and 2 quite scarce early titles by Fred M. White: 'A Golden Argosy.' and 'By Order of the League'. Bound in publisher's dark burgundy red embossed cloth with front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. This is the true First Edition of these novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. These two novels were the first written by White, who thus begins a long storied career writing mystery and science fiction. Very Good condition, mild overall handling wear, text clean and tight, some very light pencil drawing on title and facing pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1891; this volume contains complete serializations of 2 Victorian novels and one novelette: Grant Allen: Dumaresq's Daughter; AND J. Maclaren Cobban: A Soldier and a Gentleman; AND T. W. Speight: The Heir of Rothwell Chase. Bound in 3/4 brown cloth over dark green marbled bolards, 2 dark brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt, ex-library with the usual marks [discarded]. Pages are clean and bright with minimal age toning. This is the true First Edition of all 3 novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. scarce, I can find no other publication of the Speight title.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound volume of Chambers Journal of popular literature, science and arts for the year 1892; this volume contains complete serializations of 2 Victorian novels and other novelettes and short stories: Grant Allen, Blood Royal. AND Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate. Bound in publisher's dark burgundy red embossed cloth with front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. This is the true First Edition of both novels, the serializations appearing before the published book form. Very Good condition, mild overall handling wear.