Titles starting with M from Elegant Horrors

276pp top edge blue. Orig blue cloth with silver spine titles. Orig pictorial dw featuring a skull in a cloud. Seven short stories and a play including 'The Book' and 'The Earlier Service'. Cloth has very trivial wear and markings, the dw has minor chipping, wrinkles and edge wear. VG+ in a rare VG dw. ... more information

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First edition; fine copy in original pictorial dw. 227pp + author intro + numerous ills by author. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. The author's third collection of short supernatural stories (although the longest tale - marginally qualifying as a novella - is not in fact supernatural).... more information

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First edition, second impression. Original gilt cloth, 188pp, in very sharp condition. Clean, bright, strong binding, no inscriptions. The gorgeous pictorial dw has some edge chipping with two or three small triangular sections of loss to edge. Four novella length supernatural investigations by psychic sleuth Dr Miles Pennoyer. ... more information

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First cheap edition (original 1914). Original red boards, black spine titles, 250pp plus [1pp] poem. Preface plus 11 short horror stories. A very good copy with minor faults and one minor repair to a small spine split.... more information

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Original cloth, signed 'Wm F Harvey'� to front endpaper. Cloth a little worn else very good. Signed copies of Harvey's book are rare, especially his first volume. ... more information

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True first edition in orig green cloth with gilt spine titles. 224pp. Book is a bright copy with merest hint of bowing, the orig pictorial dw has some light wear and edge chipping. From the dw: "Perhaps none of the stories in the book can be described rightly as a ghost story, but in a number of them the reader is conscious of moving in a strange border world...." ... more information

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First edition. Original grey-blue cloth black titles and design of a swooping bat to front board. 274pp plus 2pp rear adverts, lower and fore edges untrimmed. Most likely the true first issue as dated catalogues were inserted from September onwards, all the way through into 1912. These 1911 first editions without catalogues were probably ready before the catalogue was, and were perhaps even intended as review copies. Bumped corner, two small nicks / spilts to lower spine end, a little acid toning to pastedo... more information

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First edition of 1860 on original red pictorial cloth with chessboard design in gilt to upper board, gilt titles to spine, and elaborate blindstamping to all covers. 485pp plus 2pp rear index. Spine ends frayed, closed split along one edge circa 4cm in length, general wear, ink inscriptions to endpapers, corner piece excised from one of the rear advert pages. Binding is firm, not weakened. A good working copy but not a bright collector's edition. ... more information

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