Authors starting with O from Elegant Horrors

Orig red cloth with black spine titles. 228pp plus 4pp undated rear catalogue. Signed "From Elliot O'Donnell" on front endpaper by fountain-pen. Two small sections of dormant wormhole damage to rear board, one small section of coloured-variegated cloth to rear (most likely water damage). Corner tips nicked. Overall, nearer very good than good. Note: this is one of the O'Donnell titles which misspelt the author's name. O'Donnell has diplomatically signed the book using the misspelling. ... more information

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Orig black cloth with white front cover and spine titles. 179pp + 4pp rear index. Spine lettering partially perished, corner tips nicked, signed by author in biro to title page. Nearer very good than good. Note: almost certainly this was a book signed in later life by the author. As O'Donnell is not known to used personal bookplates, usually opting to mark his own copies with just his signed name or the initials "E.O.D" to the page fore edges, this is almost certainly from O'Donnell's personal collection. ... more information

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Original dark green pictorial cloth with white spine and cover titles and the design of a castle, trees and bats in a starry moonlit sky. 192pp lower edge untrimmed. An attractive very good solid copy of an extremely handsome book. Purports to be the accounts of hauntings but it is in fact a collection of bloodthirsty fictional ghost stories. [Not only do O'Donnell's autobiographies reveal the financial hardships he endured before succeeding as an author, but the papers he left after his death prove that no... more information

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First edition; fine copy in original pictorial dw. 227pp + author intro + numerous ills by author. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. The author's third collection of short supernatural stories (although the longest tale - marginally qualifying as a novella - is not in fact supernatural).... more information

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Original scarlet red cloth with elaborate blind-stamping and gilt titles. 317pp + 16pp rear catalogue. A very good and sturdy copy. Numerous full page plates inc tissue-guarded frontispiece. Scarce in the first English edition; the book was subsequently reprinted in 1908 as "The Great Secret". ... more information

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