Anonymous

The Bloody Hand, or, The Fatal Cup

Zittaw Press, handsewn chapbook reprint, as new

$10

Anker, Jens

Two Dead Men

New York: Knopf, 1922.  Red cloth, no jacket. Uncommon Danish mystery novel. Very good.

$30

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.

$25

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.

$20

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.

$12

Caine, Hall

The Manxman

New York: Appleton, 1895. 8th US edition, publisher's red cloth, very good condition

$5

Chesterton, G.K.

The Club of Queer Trades

New York: Harpers, 1905.  1st US edition, publisher's green cloth with decorated front board.  Cloth a little soiled in places, very slight lean to spine.  A very good copy.

$100

Corelli, Marie

Wormwood

Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2004, edited by Kirstin Macleod, as new, unread, slight shelfwear

$10

Corelli, Marie

Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul

Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1897.  Publisher's decorated blue cloth.  Only a good copy, with soiling and wear, but a wonderful full page inscription on front free endpaper signed by Corelli to the noted Victorian actor Wilson Barrett, and dated Feb. 14, 1897.

$300

Cottin, Sophie

Claire d'Albe

Paris: Garnery, 1822.  12 mo., leather spine, marbled paper boards.  Very good.

$20

Cullen, Stephen

The Haunted Priory; or, The Fortunes of the House of Rayo. A Romance.

Philadelphia: Perry, 1846.  Small clothbound book, crudely but effectively rebacked at some point with a strip of leather.  Some tanning and soiling to pages, but tightly bound and altogether not a bad copy of a very scarce book. 192pp, with frontispiece.

$175

Dacre, Charlotte

Zofloya, or, The Moor

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

$6

Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

New York: P.F. Collier, ca. 1890s.  Vol. VI. of Dickens' Works, publisher's green cloth.  Cloth a little soiled, but a sound copy.

$10

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.

$30

Gide, Andre

The Journals of Andre Gide: Volume II.

New York: Knopf, 1948.  Tall octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket, protected in mylar holder.  A very good copy.

$10

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.

$10

Gray, Arnold

Periwinkle.  An Autobiography.  In three volumes.

London: Ward and Downey, 1888.  3 vols.  Original publisher's green cloth with silver lettering to front boards and spine.  Rebacked recently with original spines pasted down over new ones.  Not actually an autobiography; instead, a scarce three-volume (three decker) Victorian mystery novel.  Only 5 copies in OCLC, of which 2 are in the US.  Some slant to spines, foxing to extremities, a little soiling to page edges.  Circulating library label to front board of each copy.  A good to very good set of this rare novel.

$300

Grosse, Karl

Chlorinde.  Nouvelle espagnole, tirée des papiers de Don Juan de B*** par Grosse.  Traduite de l'Allemand par M. D' A*** de R***, officier prussien.

Nuremberg: 1804.  272pp.  Plain purple wrappers.  A couple ink spots to title page, else near fine.  Very rare.  Only two holdings in OCLC (Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and one in Germany).  A romantic tale by the author of Horrid Mysteries.

$1000

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.

$25

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.

$20

Hungerford, Mrs. ("The Duchess")

The Haunted Chamber

New York: The Mershon Company, ca. 1900.  Pictorial cloth, pages tanned with age.  A very good copy.

$5

Huysmans, J-K

En Route

New York: Dutton, 1920. Black cloth, no jacket. Cloth is dulled, paged slightly foxed, rear hinge starting, overall in good condition only.

$25

James, C.T.C.

On Turnham Green: Being the Adventures of a Gentleman of the Road.

London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895.  Good-plus, in publisher's decorated green cloth.  A very rare novel, only 2 copies in OCLC, both in the UK.

$200

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.

$20

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.

$20

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.

$25

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.

$20

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.)

$5

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.

$150

Marsh, Richard

In Full Cry

London: F. V. White, 1899.  First edition, a beautiful near fine to fine copy, unread, with unopened pages, which suffers from one serious flaw: it was bound without pages 1-16 of the novel.  Otherwise, exquisite.

$50

Marsh, Richard

A Master of Deception

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

$150

Marsh, Richard

The Beetle: A Mystery

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

$8

Marsh, Richard [as Bernard Heldmann]

That Master of Ours

London: James Nisbet, n.d.  Green decorative cloth.  Fine.  Very rare, only 2 copies in OCLC (1 in US, 1 in NZ).  A later schoolboy novel attributed on its title page to "by the author of "Dorrincourt", "Boxall School", "Expelled", etc."

$500

Marsh, Richard

Il Marchese di Putney

Part of the "Il romanzo mensile" (Monthly Novels) series, June 1911, softcover pictorial color wraps, text printed in double columns, illustrated.  Italian translation of Marsh's The Marquis of Putney.  Very good condition.

$20

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.

$50

Mathers, Helen

The Mystery of No. 13

New York: F. M. Lupton, 1895.  Softcover (wraps), part of the Arm Chair Library (no. 68).  An early dime novel, a reprint of the British edition.  Pages browned with age, but complete.  Good.

$20

$40

Maturin, Charles Robert [as Dennis Jasper Murphy]

Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio. A Romance. By Dennis Jasper Murphy.

New York: D. Longworth, 1808.  Volume II only (of 2).  314 pp.  Fair/Poor condition.  Full leather, the cover is in poor condition and appears to have been fire damaged.  The pages are tanned significantly with age.  Previous owner's rather unattractive bookplate pasted to front endpaper and ink stamp with owner's name and address.  A little staining, particularly to first few pages.  The leaf comprising pp. 309 & 310 has a large tear across, with all text complete.  Rare.

$100

$50

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.

$75

$500

$50

$20

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.

$75

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.

$50

Pater, Walter

Marius the Epicurean

London: Macmillan, 1891.  "Fifth thousand."  Red cloth, 8vo.  Spine is slanted, a little chipping to top of spine.  Very good.

$10

Pater, Walter

The Renaissance

New York: Modern Library, n.d. (circa 1940?).  Orange cloth, no jacket.  Very good.

$5

$40

$50

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.

$10

$15

Radcliffe, Ann

A Sicilian Romance

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

$5

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.

$10

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.

$5

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.

$40

$30

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.

$150

Raven, Simon

The Feathers of Death

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.  First American edition, no jacket.  Very good.

$5

Reade, Charles

The Cloister and the Hearth

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. (ca. 1900); publisher's decorated cloth, a very nice copy.

$10

$50

$100

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.

$150

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.

$50

Reid, Forrest

The Garden God

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

$10

Reid, Forrest

Uncle Stephen

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

$10

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.

$10

$40

$125

"Rita" [i.e. Mrs. Desmond Humphreys]

A Vagabond Lover

London: F. V. White, 1899.  One vol., publisher's decorated blue cloth.  With an autographed letter by the author tipped in.  Rare (only 3 copies in OCLC: Princeton, Cambridge, Nat'l Library of Scotland).  A little bumping and scuffing to the exterior, esp. top of spine, but overall a very good copy.

$100

$30

Roche, Regina Maria

The Monastery of St. Columb; or, The Atonement.  A Novel.

New York: Inskeep and Bradford, 1813.  Volume 1 only (of 2).  Poor condition.  Top board missing.  Rear board present but detached.  Paper browned with age.  Owner's name "Phoebe Woodruff" in ink to front endpaper.  Text complete, 308 pp.  A little fraying to the page edges of the last leaf, not affecting text.  Rare.

$100

Rolfe, Frederick (Baron Corvo)

Hadrian the Seventh

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

$10

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.

$30

$50

$25

$50

$10

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.

$10

$20

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.

$250

$5

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.

$200

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.

$200

Sue, Eugene

The Wandering Jew

Chicago: Donahoe, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Red cloth, no jacket, two volumes bound in one very thick volume. Cloth somewhat soiled and faded, both inner hinges are splitting. Nonetheless, a complete copy of this Victorian bestseller and certainly more than adequate as a reading copy.

$10

Surtees, Robert Smith

Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds

London: The Folio Society, 1982.  Facsimile reprint of the original edition published by Bradbury Evans.  A stunning fine copy in a very good gold slipcase.  As new.

$20

Trollope, Anthony

He Knew He Was Right

New York: Harpers, 1869.  First American edition, tall octavo, brown cloth, printed in double column, illustrated.  A good copy only; has a little splitting and soiling to cloth and some general rubbing and bumping of the exterior.  A little water-staining to the bottom edges of some pages.

$20

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.

$375

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.

$10

Walpole, Horace

The Castle of Otranto

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

$5

Warner, Miss, of Bath [Ellen Rebecca Warner]

Herbert-Lodge; A New-Forest Story.

Printed by Richard Cruttwell, Bath; and sold by Wilkie and Robinson, London, 1808.  Three volumes bound in one.  Three-quarters leather over marbled boards.  Title in gilt on red morocco to spine.  Very good.  Lacks pp. 131-132 of volume 1 and pp. 131-138 and 145-158 of volume 3.  Else a lovely copy.

$200

Whyte-Melville, G. J.

The Queen's Maries

London: Longmans Green & Co., n.d.  A new edition.  Yellowback with pictorial boards.  Most of spine is lacking, but book is still holding together.  Fair condition.

$12

Wilson, Colin

The Mind Parasites

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

$40

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