Titles starting with R from Elegant Horrors

Fine copy in dw. 143pp. Warmly inscribed by editor Richard Dalby. ... more information

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First edition in original brown cloth with white box and red titles to front board, gilt titles to spine. 312pp plus rear catalogue. All edges trimmed. Decorative endpapers. Fifteen short stories, some with supernatural content. General wear, very little tear, a strong and decent copy. ... more information

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Original pictorial cloth with gilt spine and front cover titles. 314pp + 2pp rear adverts. Sixteen full page plates inc frontispiece. One corner nicked, light wear, front pastedown and rear of frontispiece spotted lightly with fox spots, missing front endpaper very neatly replaced. Binding firm. A very good copy of a very rare book. A group of strangers are summoned to a gathering by a wealthy relative where they each take turns in recounting ghostly experiences. The stories originally appeared in a periodi... more information

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UK 1st edition. States "Fifty-First Thousand" to title page although this was either a reference to the anticipated print run or publisher's bluff (many books by this publisher feature misleading claims about print run size). Original pictorial cloth with gilt spine and cover titles. Black endpapers; 208pp; tissue-guarded frontispiece; various statements and prefaces by the author. According to Copac, the British Library does not possess a copy, though file copies exist at Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh (w... more information

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