Authors starting with N from Elegant Horrors

Original blue cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. 318pp + 2pp ads + 30pp undated rear catalogue. Cloth has some some marks and blemishes; one corner nicked; spine ends rubbed; front hinge a little weak; some pages minor fox spots; overall a good or better copy of an extremely rare and desirable book. Collects fourteen horror stories inc. 'Man Size In Marble', 'The Head', 'The Violet Car', 'John Charrington's Wedding', 'In The Dark', 'Hurst Of Hurstcote', 'The Three Drugs' etc. An important book in any s... more information

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Fifth edition, date of 1895 as per rear catalogue. Original red stipled cloth with black tramlines and gilt spine titles; tissue-guarded frontispiece of 'The Ghostly Carrack' by the author; 308pp + 7pp rear catalogue on good quality glossy paper. Apart from some foxing to the tissue-guard and very minimal wear to the cloth, this is a handsome and bright copy. An occult novel featuring witchcraft, hypnotism, mesmerism and supernatural apparitions. Rare. NB. The rear catalogue says of this fifth edition: "Cro... more information

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First edition. Original red cloth with gilt design and titles to upper board and gilt titles to spine. Frontispiece, preface, 312pp. Minor wear, corner nicks and colour variation to cloth; one small split to spine edge at top; cracked front endpapers resulting in a slightly weakened binding. Overall, good to very good. Lost race adventure in the Indiana Jones vein i.e. killer ants, giant pythons, Amazonian women, deserted cities, temples to the dead etc. ... more information

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Fine copy in original dw. 149pp. Warmly inscribed by the editor Richard Dalby. ... more information

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