Titles starting with J from Elegant Horrors

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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Fifth edition, date of 1895 as per rear catalogue. Original red stipled cloth with black tramlines and gilt spine titles; tissue-guarded frontispiece of 'The Ghostly Carrack' by the author; 308pp + 7pp rear catalogue on good quality glossy paper. Apart from some foxing to the tissue-guard and very minimal wear to the cloth, this is a handsome and bright copy. An occult novel featuring witchcraft, hypnotism, mesmerism and supernatural apparitions. Rare. NB. The rear catalogue says of this fifth edition: "Cro... more information

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