Authors starting with H from Elegant Horrors

Original cloth, signed 'Wm F Harvey'� to front endpaper. Cloth a little worn else very good. Signed copies of Harvey's book are rare, especially his first volume. ... more information

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True first edition in orig green cloth with gilt spine titles. 224pp. Book is a bright copy with merest hint of bowing, the orig pictorial dw has some light wear and edge chipping. From the dw: "Perhaps none of the stories in the book can be described rightly as a ghost story, but in a number of them the reader is conscious of moving in a strange border world...." ... more information

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First UK edition [although there was a Colonial Edition, it is not known if there was a US edition]. Original green pictorial cloth depicting full colour designs of an owl, bat and starry night. Blind-stamped device to rear. Spine titles in gilt. Floral endpapers. 329pp + 8pp rear catalogue, fore and lower edge untrimmed. A near fine copy of a very handsome book which is printed and laid out identically to Skeffingtons' publication of Richard Marsh's "The Beetle" which appeared in 1897; given the excellent ... more information

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Original pictorial cloth covers with design of a haunted house to front. Red titles to upper board, gilt to spine. Twelve full page plates by Minns. 300pp plus 2pp rear adverts. The book suffered water damage leaving the pages stiff (though they are still bright and unstained). The original covers were carefully prised from the warped boards and laid onto matching new green cloth-covered boards. Some light markings to front cover, long unsightly spine edge stain to rear cover. A phenomenally scarce book fea... more information

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First edition, limited advance proof copy in original black crinoline-style paper. Gold wax seal unbroken. ... more information

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First cheap edition (original 1914). Original red boards, black spine titles, 250pp plus [1pp] poem. Preface plus 11 short horror stories. A very good copy with minor faults and one minor repair to a small spine split.... more information

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