Authors starting with W from Elegant Horrors

Original green cloth with black spine titles; 313pp + 2pp rear adverts. A very good solid copy with very trivial wear, the only appreciable fault is a little fore edge foxing to the page edges. Ten superior ghost stories including "He cometh and he passeth by..." which savagely caricatures Aleister Crowley.... more information

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First edition in original bark green cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. 281pp. A very good clean copy. For health reasons a wealthy business magnate sells his company and purchases a country estate next what has now become the book-collecting epicentre of the UK, Hay-on-Wye, where he quickly becomes embroiled in strange goings-on. Scarce mystery novel by a relatively obscure publisher. Possible supernatural interest - there are early references to haunted rooms etc - but I suspect this is rationalised.... more information

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First edition, second edition. Original red cloth with striking gold, silver and black titles to front cover and spine. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece, 376pp plus 1pp index to Maori terms. Toned spine, former owner name stamped to front pastedown. A sharp VG copy of an attractive book. Thrilling adventure mystery set in the wilds of New Zealand. ... more information

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Original dark green cloth with block spine titles and block tramlines to front cover. The front panel from the original pictorial dw by Graham Simmons has been affixed to the front free endpaper (depicting three Martians striding across the sea zapping ships and men in the water below). At some stage the endpapers have been replaced with thicker grey paper resulting in the loss of the title page. Thus the book starts with a printed dedication to Wells' brother, two pages of chapter headings, then 303pp of t... more information

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First edition (although the book is called the 'New Edition' by the publisher on the title page, there never was a preceding edition). Original brightly glazed red cloth with gilt titles and devices to front cover and spine. Black endpapers. 470pp plus 1pp advert. Nine short stories inc the rationalised ghost story 'Sandstone Tor', 'Ketira The Gypsy' (supernatural curse) and 'A Curious Experience' (ghost of a murdered woman haunts the room she was killed in). Spine ends rubbed and partially worn, corners ni... more information

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Original navy-blue cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine; 243pp all edges trimmed; twelve short stories. Spine ends a little rubbed; former booksellers stamp to lower edge of front pastedown; else a sharp copy. A very rare collection of supernatural horror stories; the author's only work in the genre, compared favourably with Algernon Blackwood. It's difficult to find a copy of the book let alone a bright collectors' copy. The dustwrapper for this book [not present with this copy] featured plain p... more information

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