A Stir of Echoes by Matheson, Richard - 1958

MODERN LIBRARY, 1929 HBDJ, UNDATED 1929, NOT A 1ST BUT EARLY REPRINT, VG+/GOOD+, The list of titles on the inside of the dust jacket is correct for a 1929 edition., 217 pages; approx. 4 x 6.5 IN. 150 TITLES ON BACK OF DJ WITH PRE ZIPCODE DJ with 95 cents, Lite Soil Fox to DJ, Tiny chips tears DJ Extremities, Green cloth with Bright gold Gilt ,Interior clean with few FOX Stains, TINY CHIPS TOP SPINE DJ, Light green Topstain ,by authors such as ,Daniel De Foe, Bulwer-Lytton and Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, and The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Some real American ghosts ,In BEIGE & GREEN LINE AT TOP & BTM front PRINTED DJ . Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Fine minus book with slight shelf wear and touch of light soiling to tiny area front page edges. Oversize book approximately 11 inches tall by 7 inches wide. This is the lettered limited edition, J of 26 copies, bound in very dark blue leather with no jacket, as issued. Publisher's envelop lettered J laid-in with letter stating – Dear Collector, Contrary to our colophon page, this lettered state of Dark Rivers Of The Heart has been hand bound by Claudia Cohen in full Morocco leather with Fabriano Roma end-sheets and stamped in 22-carat gold. Enjoy, Charnel House. Signed on the limitation page by Koontz and Gervais. This copy housed in a Fine, blue drop-lid box custom made by bookbinder Mark Andersson, Panther Peak Bindery, Tucson. One of his business cards is laid-in.

Wells, H.G. The Croquet Player, A Dark Fantasy. Copyright 1937 H.G. Wells FIRST AMERICAN EDITION , THE VIKING PRESS. Used. VG/G Price-clipped DJ. Illustrated by Clifton Line. Boards are in nice shape. Printed in the US by the Haddon Craftsmen. By the author of 'War of the Worlds' and 'The Time Machine'. Illustrations by British artist Clifton Line. Plot Summary: "Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh." A GHOST STORY.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980, hardcover, 210 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed and inscribed by the Author to the original owner on the title page, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tight and clean with no markings, slight spine lean. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, spine sunned, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. A brilliant and striking piece by an emerging author and winner of the National Book Award for First Novel. An eccentric young woman whose large plot of land is a refuge for a diverse collection of wild animals, passionately surrenders to a young schoolteacher of blind adolescents. ISBN 9780394510217

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980, hardcover, 210 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, tiny black spot to bottom edge. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slightest edge nicks, touch of sunning to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. A brilliant and striking piece by an emerging author and winner of the National Book Award for First Novel. An eccentric young woman whose large plot of land is a refuge for a diverse collection of wild animals, passionately surrenders to a young schoolteacher of blind adolescents. ISBN 9780394510217

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.

Roma: Enrico Voghera, Editore, 1907. First Edition. Original wrappers. 7.3 x 14.5 cm. 130pp. Piccola collezione "Margherita". Light chipping to spine ends, small crease to upper corner of back cover. A very good copy. Also includes the short tale Fatale Influsso. Illustrations by Castellucci, engravings by Ballarini. In the Italian language.; 24mo.

Fine minus book with slight shelf wear and touch of light soiling to tiny area front page edges. Oversize book approximately 11 inches tall by 7 inches wide. This is the lettered limited edition, J of 26 copies, bound in very dark blue leather with no jacket, as issued. Publisher's envelop lettered J laid-in with letter stating – Dear Collector, Contrary to our colophon page, this lettered state of Dark Rivers Of The Heart has been hand bound by Claudia Cohen in full Morocco leather with Fabriano Roma end-sheets and stamped in 22-carat gold. Enjoy, Charnel House. Signed on the limitation page by Koontz and Gervais. This copy housed in a Fine, blue drop-lid box custom made by bookbinder Mark Andersson, Panther Peak Bindery, Tucson. One of his business cards is laid-in.

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

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."
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