Titles starting with L from Elegant Horrors

First issue, first edition in original red cloth gilt. Six full page colour plates by Pamela Colman Smith. 324pp + 4pp ads + 16pp catalogue. Minor marks to cloth; new endpapers. A very good and sturdy copy. Weird horror novel written when Bram Stoker's mind was collapsing due to syphilis. Includes a bizarre series of stare-outs between a mesmerist and his enemies; a very odd and long kite-flying sequence in which the villain terrorises the whole of England with a gigantic red kite; and a mercilessly racist ... more information

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First edition in dark red cloth with gilt titles and original printed dw. 246pp. Frontispiece plus four further full page plates. The book top edge has a little dent and the dw has a small number of closed tears at the extremities. ... more information

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Third impression in same year as original publication. Pictorial navy blue boards with white cover and gilt spine titles. 250pp plus 100pp unnumbered rear adverts. Top edge gilt, other two partially trimmed. Preface plus fifteen short stories inc 'The Watcher'. Front hinge slightly weak, two ink former owner inscriptions, else an uncommonly bright and sharp copy. Identical in every respect to first edition. ... more information

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Uniform edition of 1914 i.e. the UK second edition. Original black cloth, gilt front board titles, red spine titles. 350pp + 3pp rear ads. A little page fore edge foxing; very light fox spots to title pages; else an attractive copy with very minimal wear. NB. Bears the tiny bookseller label of The Atlantis Bookshop in London; the book has also been signed "Miriam Bloch" on the title page in black ink. Regina Miriam Bloch shared an interest in the occult with Blackwood and authored her own weird collection o... more information

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Original black cloth with red framed front cover titles and gilt spine titles. 350pp, 34pp rear catalogue, 2pp further ads. Two cup stains to front cover (semi-circular), corners nicked, neat library bookplate to front pastedown ("Thorp's Subscription Library, Reading"), one prelim and index page has 3cm closed tears and page edge chipping (I suspect these were sealed when the book was published and then roughly opened by a subsequent owner), foxing to first ten pages. A good to very good copy. Nine short s... more information

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Original blue cloth with gilt spine and front titles. Second edition, same month and format as first. 311pp. Spine ends rubbed, a little fraying / splitting to spine end edges, a few internal random fox spots. Binding firm and sound. Very close to being very good. A very rare 'Queen's Quorum' title which served as the basis for the then-arthouse style film which cemented Alfred Hitchcock's reputation as a superlative director. An early fictionalisation of the 'Jack-The-Ripper' murders with the woman-hating ... more information

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Third edition. 328pp. Original red cloth with black spine titles. In great shape excepting a little early and late (and fore edge) foxing. The spine of the dw is darkened, has remains of a removed sticker to lower portion, and some edge chipping at head of spine. Otherwise a decent and unrestored example of the rare dw. Ten short stories including 'The Wendigo'. ... more information

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