Titles starting with P from Elegant Horrors

First edition. Original green finely-ribbed cloth with gilt spine titles. 443pp plus 1pp unnumbered poem. Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Very light foxing to endpapers, slight foxing to page edges, else a very bright and sharp copy. Collects in entirety Benson's first two collections and adds a new preface. Includes a large number of supernatural tales. At the time of listing this is quite easily the best condition copy available anywhere in the world. ... more information

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Original ivory-coloured pictorial cloth depicting a Pierrot clown selecting books in a library in red; red spine titles; red pictorial device to rear. Decorative endpapers; 163pp + 16pp rear catalogue (most of catalogue is uncut and unopened), all edges untrimmed. A scarce novel of the supernatural involving a blurring of sexual boundaries. John Lane obviously liked this book immensely because it launched his 'Pierrot Library' series which also included Stacpoole's other novel of weird decadent superna... more information

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Attractive green half leather with raised bands and gilt spine titles and blocking, green marbled boards. Very clean and bright inside. 293pp plus rear catalogue. One neat ink stamp from University Library Of Santa Clara. I bought this book from Jessica Salmonson at Violet Books who claimed it was supernatural. It isn't. ... more information

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First edition, first issue (identical format to the companion volume 'Some Women Of The University'). Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with printed title label affixed to spine. Red and black title page, 210pp, eight short supernatural stories. Author introduction dated 1952 (part of the affectation of this being a posthumously published book). Includes title and pagination for the notorious story and dubiously erotic 'The Cheetah-Girl' although the tale was subsequently pulled by the publisher, with... more information

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