THE HUNGER AND OTHER STORIES by Beaumont, Charles - 1957

Parnassus Imprints, , 1992. PBO, Decorated B/W illustrated WRAPS, 1992. Pictorial Wraps. No Jacket, As Issued. First Edition. 12mo, 7 1/4 X 7 1/4 IN. Near fine in b/w wrap-around illustrated wraps. Minor wear (light soil on bottom page edge Corner, white spine Lettered in Black, Else FINE with tight, square spine and text block. SOFTCOVER, and morbidly humorous tales. His images are unforgettable, mysterious, and simultaneously burlesque and gloomy. _The Betrayed Confidence_ springs " from the pen of Dogear Wryde", the mysterious masked dog, who accompanies stark images with strange captions in this singular book. Gorey illustrated front and back covers, book is unpaginated but contains the Gorey illustrations for :scenes de ballet, menaced objects, alms for oblivion, interpretive series, neglected murderesses, tragedies topiares, whatever next?. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover.

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1832. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition (published 1832-38), octavo, three volumes; xii, 388; 409; 509pp. In contemporary half calf (lightly worn), spines divided into five compartments with gilt rolls and double fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively. Early ownership labels to front endpapers, neat early ink ownership names to head of each title page, early pencil ownership inscription to opening blank of volume three, half-titles present in all three volumes. Clean attractive copy in first edition of Warren's often macabre tales that have received considerable scholarly attention as a source for Edgar Allan Poe's works of mystery and the supernatural.

Ten Little Indians Dodd, Mead Greenway Edition, Copyright 1967 by Agatha Christie Mallowan. States: First published in the Greenway Edition in the United States 1978. Number line starts with 2. Used. VERY GOOD/ VG Unclipped original bright orange fish motif dust jacket. ffp $8.95 A nice, crisp copy in a mylar wrap. DJ spine states 24. Our DJ spine is slightly sunned. "Ten Little Indians, aka And Then There Were None and (offensive language alert) Ten Little N*ggers, is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November, 1939 as Ten Little N-ggers, after the children's counting and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element."

Gemstone Publishing, 2006. 4 vols. in slipcase. Very Good in Good slipcase. Slipcase shows shelf and handling wear with rubbed corners, edge wear, and light soiling. Four volumes: Crime Illustrated (Adult Suspense Stories), Confession Illustrated (Adult Romances), Adult Tales of Terror Illustrated (Horror and Suspense), and Shock Illustrated (Adult Crime Stories). All four volumes show very minor shelf and handling wear to their covers with some minor abrasion to the spines as well. Interiors are all crisp, clean, and pristine with no marks. In the gutter of every volume in both the front and the back there is a long thin adhesive bleed-through from production. Overall a clean, solid set showing minimal signs of use. Photos are of the set we have at Barbed Wire Books.

The Bride of Frankenstein (Sequel to Frankenstein), Egremont Michael (Maurice Desmond Rohan; Pseudonym Michael Harrison). Published by Bookfinger, New York, 1976. Introduction by George Locke. (i-v)., 252pp. with half title, title, publisher, table of contents. Reprint of the 1936 original Queensway Press Edition of The Readers Library Publishing Company of London. Issued without a dustjacket. Black boards with gilt spine titles. In fine, unread condition with a tiny dust mark lower outer edge and a tiny crease at head of spine.
The novel was based on the James Whale film "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff. After the movie was completed, Michael Harrison was commissioned to produce a novel from the original film script. Given only three weeks to produce a finished work, Harrison (Egremont) ultimately abandoned the script and produced what "was to all intents and purposes original fiction."
Michael Egremont was a one time only pen name for UK detective and… Read More

Parnassus Imprints, , 1992. PBO, Decorated B/W illustrated WRAPS, 1992. Pictorial Wraps. No Jacket, As Issued. First Edition. 12mo, 7 1/4 X 7 1/4 IN. Near fine in b/w wrap-around illustrated wraps. Minor wear (light soil on bottom page edge Corner, white spine Lettered in Black, Else FINE with tight, square spine and text block. SOFTCOVER, and morbidly humorous tales. His images are unforgettable, mysterious, and simultaneously burlesque and gloomy. _The Betrayed Confidence_ springs " from the pen of Dogear Wryde", the mysterious masked dog, who accompanies stark images with strange captions in this singular book. Gorey illustrated front and back covers, book is unpaginated but contains the Gorey illustrations for :scenes de ballet, menaced objects, alms for oblivion, interpretive series, neglected murderesses, tragedies topiares, whatever next?. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover.

London, Little, Brown & Company, 1992.. 1st U.K. edition. Precedes the first American edition! Fine condition in a fine unclipped dustwrapper.

Mcgraw Hill New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966 Blank white Endpapers tiny Tape Residue , usual XLibrary indications with few small stamps Pocket, HBDJ, 1966. 1st Edition THUS, VG/VG, AS-IS, Pictorial Cloth. Usual XLibrary indications with few small stamps Pocket Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 7.25 x 10.25 in. . Bound in GREEN Teal cloth printed with design in black and Titles in purple. Appears clean and bright, though tapemarks may be found on close inspection. Binding tight, corners sharp, minor rubbing to extremities. Lightly circulated ex-library book with signifiers including discreet inkstamps, tape "ghosts" to endpapers, pocket on front blank Endpaper, penmark to top of textblock indicating library discard. Internally almost clean (save for light smudges on 1st page of Raven) and bright. Dust jacket with portrait of Poe on back panel is clean, Library call number in ink on spine, , 32 unnumbered pages, Interior basically Nice, tight Light Wear Fox, DJ Protected Clear… Read More

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1832. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition (published 1832-38), octavo, three volumes; xii, 388; 409; 509pp. In contemporary half calf (lightly worn), spines divided into five compartments with gilt rolls and double fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively. Early ownership labels to front endpapers, neat early ink ownership names to head of each title page, early pencil ownership inscription to opening blank of volume three, half-titles present in all three volumes. Clean attractive copy in first edition of Warren's often macabre tales that have received considerable scholarly attention as a source for Edgar Allan Poe's works of mystery and the supernatural.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, hardcover, 322 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed and inscribed by the Author to the original owner on the title page, Fine in Very Near Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slightest of edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. The third book from the author of Sister Wolf and Group Sex, a tale of shape-changers and exorcism written with intelligence, restraint and style. ISBN 9780394556963