A Fallen Idol, The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey (pseud), Thomas Anstey Guthrie - 0

Valancourt Books. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Philadlephia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1893. Later printing of the first US edition. Bleiler [The Guide to Supernatural Fiction page 8 "Irony on the life of a society artist in London and a spoof on the Theosophists...Amusing, with many good touches and types"]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist page 9 coded EY4X6 for Occult/India/Parody, humor]. Reginald 00357. Dark reddish buckram type binding with gold gilt spine lettering/rules and with the boards bordered in blind, top edge gilt, 334 pages plus 18 pages of ads at the rear. Otherwise Good to Very Good copy with scattered staining [mostly to the exterior binding and to the bottom edge with some penetration. .bed2/2

Methuen & Co, 1900. Trade Paperback. 114 pages. Later printing. Very good copy in yellow illustrated wrappers (paperback). Covers mildly soiled. Mild edge and corner wear. Pages are browned.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. The Novel Series. Original fine-ribbed grey-blue cloth. A little scuffed, good..

London: Smith, Elder & Co. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Light edgewear. 1895. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 180mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). viii, 256pp + ads. .

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., [1931]. First edition. Tanning to cover edges and spine panel, wear at spine ends. A good copy. (25926). Octavo, cloth. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.

Smith Elder & Co, 1900. 3rd impression. A genie-in-the-bottle story set in modern London; the released genie causes no end of comic complications for his new master. Hardback. about very good hardcover copy, illus frontis.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. Book. Illus. by Bernard Partridge. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original red-brown cloth spine, with brown boards, illustrated and lettered in black; chocolate brown endpapers. Minor scuffing, inscription (1938) on recto on frontispiece, bookplate on front pastedown, very good..

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Fourth Impression (Second Edition). Illustrated. Original crimson cloth, blocked in black. Bookplate, signature (1964), one faint mark, otherwise fine..

London: John Murray, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Stated first edition in one volume, 1931, of this collection of 4 novels from Anstey. Very good in red cloth with fading to spine, some soiling to covers, and foxing to rear cover and endpapers. Former owner's bookplate attached to front pastedown.