St. Augustine

The Confessions of Saint Augustine, Translated by Edward Bouverie Pusey, D.D. Edited by Temple Scott.  Illustrated by Maxwell Armfield.  With an introduction by Alice Meynell. 

New York: Frederck A. Stokes Company, although bearing the plates of the 1909 London Chatto & Windus edition.  Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to board and spine.  A very good copy, tightly bound, with no serious defects.  A little chipping to head of spine and some dulling of the gilt spine lettering.  A VG+ copy.

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Austen, Jane

The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen [4 vols.: Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey & Persuasion]

4 vols., softcover reprint of the classic editions edited by R. W. Chapman; incl. illustrations.  All volumes in like new, unread condition.

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Beckford, Vathek

Vathek et ses episodes

Paris: Jose Corti, 2003.  A great French edition of Vathek and the Episodes of Vathek.  A couple ink notations in the margins, else an excellent copy.

$5

Cameron, Mrs. Lovett

A Woman's No

New York: F. M. Buckles & Company and London: John Long, 1902.  1st edition, publisher's green decorative cloth.  A very scarce sensation novel.

$5

Couperus, Louis

Small Souls

New York: Dodd Mead, 1919.  Blue publisher's decorative cloth.  Good only.  Some dulling and soiling to exterior and both inner hinges weak.  Nevertheless, an uncommon edition of one of the masterpieces of Dutch fiction.

$5

Dacre, Charlotte

Zofloya, or, The Moor

Oxford World Classics softcover, very good condition, no writing or markings.

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Davidson, John

Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson

London: Ward and Downey.  Good condition, rebacked with original spine pasted over new spine.  The first couple (non-text) pages have some red staining to the outer edges.  Tightly bound.  Has its flaws, but certainly a suitable copy for most people.  An uncommon novel by the author of Earl Lavender.

$15

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

New York: P F Collier, n.d. [circa 1890].  Volume VI of the works of Dickens, although complete in itself.  Green publisher's cloth.  Good condition, tightly bound.  A nice reading copy. 

$5

Strange Landscapes

New York: Grove Press, 1975.  Translation from the French, originally published in French in 1973.  Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper, jacket price clipped, stamp to lower page edges (looks like the Random House logo), else near fine.  Jacket protected in mylar sleeve.  Lovely copy of a scarce novel compared to Burroughs and Genet.

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England, George Allan

The Golden Blight

New York: Arno Press, 1975.  As new/fine.  Hardcover (wonderful purple cloth) facsimile reprint of the 1916 edition published by H.K. Fly.  Part of Arno's Science Fiction series.

$10

Gilbert, Stephen

The Landslide

London: Faber and Faber, 1943.  Very good or better in very good or better jacket.  Slight lean to spine.  An extremely scarce wartime production, a fantasy novel set in Ireland, the first novel by this author, a protege of Forrest Reid.

$150

Gilbert, Stephen

Ratman's Notebooks

London: Michel Joseph, 1968.  Black publisher's cloth, no jacket.  An advance copy with a now-browned slip pasted on top board which reads:

Title: RATMAN'S NOTEBOOKS

Author: Stephen Gilbert

Publication Date: May, 1969

Price: $4.95

Unrevised proofs.  Confidential.  Please do not quote for publication until verified with finished book.  The Viking Press.

A Viking Press photocopied synopsis also pasted to front free endpaper. 

Very good condition and a very interesting book, as it is clearly the London edition, yet distributed in the USA as a proof copy.

$100

Gore, Catherine

Romances of Real Life

London: Colburn, 1829.  Volume 1 only (of 3).  An ex circulating library copy from G. R. Paine's Circulating Library (label on front board).  Some delightful person on eBay sold me this volume, claiming the binding was "loose".  In reality, many of the signatures are detached.  Still, all pages are present, and the volume is very uncommon.

$5

Heldmann, B. [i.e. Richard Marsh]

Boxall School: A Tale of Schoolboy Life

London: James Nisbet, n.d.  Blue pictorial cloth with schoolboy reading a book on front board.  Pages tanned with age.  A good copy only.  Uncommon early schoolboy novel by the future Richard Marsh.

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Hogg, James

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

London: Cresset Press, 1964.  Near fine hardcover in very good jacket, protected in Brodart sleeve.  Second impression.  Introduction by Andre Gide.

$15

James, Henry

The American Scene

London: Chapman and Hall, 1907. First edition. Red cloth, no jacket. Ex library, half title torn out, usual stamps.  Still a more or less presentable copy.  Good.

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James, Henry

Embarrassments

London: Heinemann, 1896.  First edition.  Original publisher's blue cloth, soiled.  An important association copy, as the front free endpaper is signed by Forrest Reid and dated "26/9/00".  Only a good copy, although tightly bound.  An uncommon edition and very significant for the association between Reid and James.

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James, Henry

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw and Covering End

New York: Macmillan, 1899.  An early American edition.  Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, good to very good condition. Surprisingly very uncommon.  Sells for $450 on abebooks.com; the first edition of the previous year sells for as much as $1500.

$30

Jones, Erasmus

The Captive Youths of Judah

New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856.  3/4 leather over marbled boards.  Lacking title page, and approx. 2" piece missing from final page of text (not affecting text).  Tightly bound, some foxing, overall about good.  Scarce.

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Kernahan, Coulson

Captain Shannon

London: Ward, Lock, [n.d.], circa 1897.  Softcover/wraps.  Color pictorial front wrap, rear wrap has advertisement for Fry's Chocolates.  122pp., double column.  Adventure/mystery novel, which was highly popular in the 1890s, involving the criminal and terrorist "Captain Shannon".  Bottom 2-3 inches of paper spine missing, but book still tightly bound, bright, and fresh.  A very uncommon survival and a lovely example of an early paperback pulp novel.

$10

King, Francis

Act of Darkness

London: Hutchinson, 1983.  First edition, near fine in near fine jacket.  A publisher's review copy with review slip taped to front free endpaper. 

$5

King, Francis

A Domestic Animal

London: Gay Modern Classics, 1984.  Softcover reprint.  Very good.

$3

Lathom, Francis

The Midnight Bell

London: Skoob Books, 1989, introduction by Lucien Jenkins.  Increasingly hard to find softcover edition, pages tanned a little with age, a crease on spine, overall still a very good copy.

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Leahy, John Martin

Drome

Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing, 1952.  A reprint of a story originally published in Weird Tales in 1925.  Cloth with dust jacket in good condition.

$5

Le Fanu, J. Sheridan

The House by the Churchyard

Belfast: Appletree Press, 1992.  Softcover.  Unread, with some shelfwear.  An uncommon reprint of Le Fanu's great mystery novel.

$5

Lewis, Matthew

The Monk

London: Oxford's World Classics, 2002.  Small hardcover with dust jacket, introduction by Stephen King.  A nice little copy.

$3

Mann, Klaus

André Gide and the Crisis of Modern Thought

New York(?): Creative Age Press, 1943, second printing.  Black cloth, no jacket.  Very good overall.  Lovely inscription on front free endpaper, with a quotation from Montaigne in French and an inscription dated from New York City in English (the signature, unfortunately, is impossible to make out -- it could be the author's or someone else's.)

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Marsh, Richard

Live Men's Shoes

London: Methuen, 1910, second edition, published less than a month after the first.  Original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Some spotting to cloth and some splitting along both outer joints, although remains tightly bound.  Foxing, especially to prelims and rear endpapers.  A good copy.  Rare.

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Marsh, Richard

A Master of Deception

London: Cassell, 1913.  Original red cloth, which is soiled and dulled, tightly bound, some foxing.  Good only.  Rare.

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Marsh, Richard

The Beetle: A Mystery

Elibron Classics, 2005.  A softcover facsimile reprint of the 1900 Skeffington edition.  Very good.

$5

Mathers, Helen

Bam Wildfire

London: Thomas Burleigh, 1898.  First edition, original green cloth.  Only three copies in OCLC.  Tanned endpapers, both inner hinges starting.  Quite scarce.

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$25

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Middlemass, Jean

A Felon's Daughter

London: Digby, Long, 1906.  Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering, some staining and spotting to exterior.  A little splitting at exterior rear spine.  Tightly bound.  An uncommon sensation novel of the early Edwardian period.  No copies listed for sale online at the time of this listing.

$15

Middlemass, Jean

The Mystery of Clement Dunraven

London: Digby, Long, 1894.  Fourth edition.  First published the same year in 3 v.  Middlemass was a popular novelist of the late 19th century; for whatever reason, her novels are all exceedingly scarce today.  Some strange wrinkling to spine, but extraordinarily tightly bound.  A very nice copy.

$15

$300

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$5

Norton, Rictor

Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe

London: Leicester University Press, 1999.  Paperback.  Very good condition, unmarked with light shelf wear.  Uncommon.

$15

Ouida

Under Two Flags

London: Chatto and Windus, 1892.  Yellowback in good condition overall, although quite good indeed for a yellowback.  Still tightly bound with spine present, although webbing visible at front and rear joints.  Ad for Pears Soap on rear board.  Comes with facsimile paper jacket  for protection.  Very scarce.

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Paltock, Robert

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins

London & Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1928.  Large 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering and design; no jacket.  Near fine condition.  Illustrated by Edward Bawden.  A classic of early English science fiction, first published in 1751.  A couple spots of minor soiling to exterior, endpapers have some foxing/offsetting.  Otherwise, lovely.  PLEASE NOTE: Due to the oversize nature of this book, shipping may be extra.

$15

$15

$25

Poe, Edgar Allan

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume II

Volume II of a 3 volume set.  New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1905?]  Small 12mo leatherette, complete with ribbon bookmark, and printed on "india paper" i.e., bible-type thin paper.  Contains some classics like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket."  Somewhat scarce in this particular edition.  Cute.

$2

$5

Post, Melville D.

The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason

Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1973.  Cloth in dust jacket (protected in Brodart sleeve).  Collection of stories featuring an evil lawyer.  A facsimile reprint of the 1896 edition.

$15

Radcliffe, Ann

A Sicilian Romance

Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 1993.  Edited by Alison Milbank.  Small softcover, unread, as new.

$3

Radcliffe, Ann

Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 1995.  Edited by Alison Milbank.  Small softcover, pages yellowed a bit with age, but book unread/unmarked.  Out of print.

$3

Radcliffe, Ann

The Italian, or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents

Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 1998.  Edited by Frederick Garber, introduction by E.J. Clery.  Softcover book, unmarked, but shows a little wear.  A great reading copy.

$3

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Radcliffe, Ann

The Mysteries of Udolpho

London: Oxford University Press, 1970.  Red cloth with clipped dust jacket.  Very good condition with light foxing to page edges and endpapers.  Edited with an introduction by Bonamy Dobree and with notes by Frederick Garber.  Oxford English Novels series.  Excellent, tight copy.

$35

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Radcliffe, Anna [i.e. George Moore]

Gli spettri della badia di Grasville

Milano: Oreste Ferrario, n.d. [circa 1830].  Apparently a translation of George Moore's Grasville Abbey.  3 vols., original illustrated paper wraps, which curiously give a different title, "Le paure di Matilda".  These three volumes are complete in themselves and although they are missing their spines and bear some signs of age and wear, they are nonetheless still complete and tightly bound.  An interesting and uncommon item, of which probably few complete copies in original wraps have survived.

$50

$20

$75

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Reid, Forrest

At the Door of the Gate

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.  First U.S. edition, the year following the British edition.  Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine.  Cloth a little soiled, spine very slightly slanted, some foxing/soiling to page edges, although internally quite clean and tight.  Previous owner's neat signature in ink to front free endpaper.  A very nice copy.  All Reid's early novels are scarce in any edition.

$75

Reid, Forrest

Denis Bracknel: A Family Chronicle

London: Faber & Faber, 1947.  First edition.  Blue cloth in dust jacket; book very good to near fine; dust jacket has a tear along front flap and some loss to base of spine, overall good+, protected in Mylar sleeve.  An increasingly scarce book.

$35

Reid, Forrest

The Garden God

Brilliant Books (UK), 1986.  Facsimile reprint with an introduction by Colin Cruise

$5

Reid, Forrest

Uncle Stephen

London: Gay Men's Press, 1988, pages tanned with age, but book unread.  A little shelfwear.

$5

Reid, Forrest

Young Tom

London: Gay Men's Press, 1987, pages tanned with age, but book unread.  A little shelfwear.  Part of the Tom Barber trilogy.

$5

$20

$50

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Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo)

Hadrian the Seventh

New York: Knopf, 1953 (3rd U.S. edition).  Very good, red cloth, no jacket.

$5

Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo)

In His Own Image

London: John Lane/The Bodley Head, 1924.  Original publisher's bluish cloth with gilt lettering to spine.  Inscription to front free endpaper, both inner hinges are shot; else tightly bound and in very good condition.

$15

Rousseau, Victor

The Sea Demons

Westport, CT: Hyperion Books, 1976.  Octavo, blue cloth with silver foil stamping to boards, no jacket.  Fine, obviously unread.  Facsimile reprint of the 1924 edition.  From another bookseller's listing: First U.S. edition. Text offset from that of the British edition published by John Long, Limited in 1924. The author's first science fiction novel, first published as a four-part serial in ALL-STORY WEEKLY during January 1916 under his better known pen name "Victor Rousseau." A sea dwelling humanoid race invades England when its ocean food supply is exhausted. ". a very small edition. Today, it is virtually impossible to obtain." - Sam Moskowitz. ". one of the most interesting [of his fantasies], dealing as it does with an invasion of mankind by underwater creatures. regarded as the most difficult to find, an opinion with which I concur." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 77. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-143. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 651. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 664. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, pp. 1031-32. Bleiler (1978), p. 67. Reginald 12507.

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Sabatini, Rafael

Captain Blood: His Odyssey

New York: Triangle Books, 1946.  Red cloth, pages very browned with age, splitting at inner front hinge, else complete and tightly bound.  Overall fair.  A copy that deserves to be read and enjoyed once before it's recycled.

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$20

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$10

$5

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne

Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2002.  Edited by Stephen C. Behrendt.  Light shelfwear, otherwise new condition.  Retails at $22.95.

$5

$15

Shute, Nevil

Ruined City

London: Cassell, 1938.  Third printing, same month as the first (July, 1938).  Very scarce, with no copies for sale online and the 1938 Cassell early printings are held by virtually no libraries worldwide. Shute's third novel, the tale of a broken-down middle-aged businessman who finds new life and new love in investing money in rebuilding a ruined shipping town.  This copy was sold to me on eBay as being "Very Nice"; I would describe it as not better than G+ to VG-.  No jacket.  Black publisher's cloth has occasional spotting and soiling, although not awful. Spine lettering still clearly visible.  Binding is holding strong, although the webbing is visible between the front free endpaper and the half-title.  Scattered light foxing throughout.  A decent, although by no means exceptional, copy of an excellent and very scarce novel.

$175

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Spector, Robert Donald (ed.)

Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror

Bantam, 1963 (2nd printing), small mass market paperback, pages tanned, tightly bound, contains: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron, Matthew Gregory Lewis's Mistrust, Mary Shelley's The Heir of Mondolfo, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The White Old Maid, Edgar Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla".  More bang for your buck than perhaps any other Gothic collection ever printed.

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Spector, Robert (ed.)

The Candle and the Tower

New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1974.  Small mass market paperback, for some reason rather scarce.  Good condition, creasing to spine, some tanning to pages, complete.  Contains a number of very rare tales from late 18th-century ladies' magazines.

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Stacpoole, Henry de Vere

The Blue Lagoon

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.  Sixth impression, published the same year as the first.  Curiously, this is clearly the English edition, and yet it has the imprint of Lippincott of Philadelphia at the base of the spine.  Blue cloth with gilt lettering.  A nice copy.  All early printings of this book are scarce and expensive.

$150

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Stoker, Bram

The Lair of the White Worm

London: Rider, 1911.  Fair condition.  Publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine and publisher's "Presentation Copy" stamp to title page.  Includes all the original color plates by Pamela Colman Smith.  Some foxing or staining to page edges and spine is stained and torn.  Would benefit from rebinding.  Compare at Abebooks.com, where cheapest copy of this edition is $250.

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Stoker, Bram

The Mystery of the Sea

London: Heinemann, 1902.  First edition, first printing, publisher's dark blue cloth with decorative front board and gilt lettering to spine.  Both hinges are weak and there is slight splitting of the cloth along the outer rear joint, and some chipping to cloth at base of spine, as well as some foxing/staining to page edges.  Overall, about good.  Compare at $270 and up (for a copy missing pages) on Abebooks.com.

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Summers, Montague

The Vampire: His Kith and Kin

New York: Barnes and Noble, 1991.  Facsimile reprint of the 1928 edition. 1/2 cloth with paper covered boards; dust jacket.  Almost new condition. 

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Tompkins, J. M. S.

The Popular Novel in England, 1770-1800

London: Constable, 1932.  Cloth (hardcover), good condition, signed "Joyce M. S. Tompkins" to title page.  The classic study of late 18th century popular English literature, including a chapter on the Gothic that was influential on Devendra Varma, among others, and ahead of its time in many ways.  No jacket.  Surprisingly uncommon.

$20

Trollope, Anthony

He Knew He Was Right

New York: Harper, 1869.  Original publisher's brownish cloth, somewhat frayed.  A fair to good copy only.  Printed in double column.  Tightly bound and certainly suitable as a reading copy.

$5

Trollope, Anthony

The Last Chronicle of Barset

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1867.  2 vols., 1/2 leather over marbled boards, very good.  1st edition. Beautiful leather spine in compartments with title label in red morocco with gilt lettering. Some splitting to rear outer hinge of volume 1, very tightly bound still.  Evidence of bookplates having been removed from all endpapers.  Previous owner's name in ink to endpapers of both volumes.  Despite these enumerated faults, a very lovely set. Please ask for photos if interested.

$150

Tryon, Thomas

The Other

New York: Knopf, 1971.  Fifth printing.  Cloth in dust jacket, protected in Brodart mylar sleeve.  Very good condition.  Classic American horror novel, basis for a popular film.

$5

Varma, Devendra

The Gothic Flame: Being a History of the Gothic Novel in England: Its Origins, Efflorescence, Disintegration, and Residuary Influences.

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1957.  1st edition.  Black cloth, no jacket.  Good to very good condition.  Some spotting and staining to cloth.  A nice reading or research copy. 

$30

Walpole, Horace

The Castle of Otranto

Oxford World Classics softcover, 1982.  Edited by W.S. Lewis.  Very good condition, no marks inside.

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Wilson, Colin

The Mind Parasites

Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, 1967.  Hardcover with dust jacket in Brodart protector.  Very good condition.

$10

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