Authors starting with T from Elegant Horrors

First edition. Original pictorial beige cloth depicting a woman's face emerging from the smoke of a cauldron cooking on a fire. Orange and white titles to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. 222pp plus 12pp rear adverts. Ink inscription to front endpaper, foxing to tissue-guarded frontispiece, rubbing to spine ends, a very good copy. Sensational fiction i.e. adultery and murder. ... more information

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UK 1st edition. States "Fifty-First Thousand" to title page although this was either a reference to the anticipated print run or publisher's bluff (many books by this publisher feature misleading claims about print run size). Original pictorial cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Black endpapers; 208pp; tissue-guarded frontispiece; various statements and prefaces by the author. According to Copac, the British Library does not possess a copy, though file copies exist at Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh (w... more information

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Orig claret cloth with elaborate silver-blocking and titles. 280pp + 8pp cat + 32pp rear catalogue dated Sept 1897. Fore and side edge untrimmed. Decorative endpapers. Spine ends a little frayed, private library bookplate to front pastedown (marked "sold - duplicate stock), removed mark to spine. A good copy. A scarce book. Scottish fiction with reasonably strong supernatural content; some period colloqualisms. ... more information

Offered by Elegant Horrors (United Kingdom) +/-