Authors starting with C from Elegant Horrors

Original chocolate brown cloth heavily stamped with gold and black designs to front cover and spine; rear board blindstamped motif. 274pp plus undated rear catalogue, all edges trimmed. Tissue guarded frontispiece and numerous full page plates. A little light wear, a little late foxing mostly to catalogue. A very good copy of a very attractive and expensively produced book. ... more information

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First edition in original pictorial dw. Extremley minor wear to dw, ink name to free endpaper, else bright sharp copy. ... more information

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First edition, original paperwraps, likely print run of circa 200 copies (as per comments in other editorials of same magazine). This number is for February 1945. 48pp. Contains essays, crosswords, fiction, prison camp news etc. This edition contains the fictional ghost story "The Doctor's Story" by Henry Cleaver. Printed to the front of this issue is eight line source from which the title 'Touchstone' is taken: "A prison is a place of care, A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, ... more information

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First edition with very rare dustwrapper. Original pale cream cloth with black spine titles. Frontispiece ["What?.....It's gone, man. The skull is gone!"], 302pp plus 8pp rear catalogue. A very sharp copy with one neat insciption and very trivial rubbing to spine ends. The green and white dw features a repeated art nouveau design and has black cover and spine titles. The dw is a little chipped with some minor loss to spine ends. It is protected in a mylar cover and has had some internal tape reinforcement a... more information

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UK 1st edition. Later reddish brown cloth, gilt spine titles. 247pp. Eight weird stories. Description: A good to very good copy with strong hinges and bright interior sheets. Literary Context: The most solidly supernatural Croker collection. A rare book as a consequence. The book appears to have been published in a variety of similar formats by Chatto & Windus all in the same year. We know of cloth editions in addition to pictorial Yellowbacks. This copy would appear to be one of the latter rebound into p... more information

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First edition. Original coarse-grained green cloth with ornate gilt Celtic design to spine and front cover with accompanying large gilt titles. 312pp. Very small residue remains of a sticker to lower spine, two small internal inscriptions. A bright VG copy. Eleven short stories, all folklorish, fantastical or supernatural, most set in historical times. 'One 'o The Sea Folk' is about the Selkie legend. ... more information

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