Authors starting with P from Elegant Horrors

UK first edition. Original pale blue cloth with gilt spine titles; blindstamped titles to front cover; covers have silver and red tramlines stamped horizontally into them. 243pp. Missing front endpaper, previous own inscription to front pastedown. Original semi-pictorial red dw which has numerous minor tape repairs (closed tears, no missing pieces). Overall the book is a bright VG shape barring the excised front endpaper, and the uncommon dw is complete yet somewhat unsightly and ragged. A very rare book. "... more information

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Beautiful dark cream half-leather binding with rose marbled boards, raised gilded spine bands, leather mount to spine with gilt titles, matching rose marbled endpapers and all edges rose marble. 279pp. A period binding to the very highest standard (I estimate it would cost circa £100+ today to have a book thus bound). Trivial wear, a bright copy of a very attractive book. Praed's first 'bona fide' novel of the supernatural, a wonderfully atmospheric tale detailing the malign psychic influence that an artist... more information

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First and only edition of this rare haunted house novel from Marjorie Bowen, published as a paperback in Ernest Benn's 'Ninepenny Novels' series. A very good copy in original decorative paper wrappers. ... more information

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Original green cloth with black spine titles. 280pp. Spine lightly toned else a sharp and bright copy. Although Bowen's 'The Devil Snar'd' was also published as an Ernest Benn paperback in the 1930s, this two-novella book is the only way to access 'Dr Chaos'. ... more information

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