Titles starting with E from Elegant Horrors

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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Original pictorial cloth boards depicting the design of a ghostly phantom crawling over the wall of a deserted London townhouse. 316pp + 31pp rear catalogue (dated "Autumn 1906"). Ten short stories. Very minor loss lower spine end, one small closed tear top spine end, else a very bright copy. The author's first and most attractive collection of ghost stories including 'Keeping His Promise' and the title tale, which is derived from Lord Lytton's story 'The Haunted & The Haunters'. A rare book and very uncom... more information

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Original black cloth with green spine and front cover titles. 316pp + 3pp rear adverts. A good to very good copy. A reprint of Nash's 'Uniform Edition'. Technically, the third UK edition. Only the first UK edition of 1906 featured pictorial boards; the sheets and typesetting for all three editions is more or less identical. ... more information

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First edition, handsomely bound in half calf leather by Zaehnsdorf. Raised spine bands, gilt titles, marbled boards, 316pp top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Slight perishment to titles; minor wear / rubbing along leather edge; corners nicked. A very good sturdy copy. I would imagine that the wear to the leather could be easily remedied with wax polish. A very desirable book in an impressive, handsome circa 1920s binding. ... more information

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First edition. Original coarse-grained green cloth with ornate gilt Celtic design to spine and front cover with accompanying large gilt titles. 312pp. Very small residue remains of a sticker to lower spine, two small internal inscriptions. A bright VG copy. Eleven short stories, all folklorish, fantastical or supernatural, most set in historical times. 'One 'o The Sea Folk' is about the Selkie legend. ... more information

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First edition. Unstated volume four of the series which Gomme edited for Elliot Stock, comprising comprehensive selections from the Gentleman's Magazine which ran from 1731 to 1868. This volume collates the following: Fairy Beliefs, Legends & Traditions, Prophecies Dreams & Ghost Stories, Customs Of Foreign Countries. 356pp inclusive of index. Chunky boards covered in finely grained black cloth; leather spine with gily border and gilt titles. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Printed on very good qualit... more information

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