A STRANGE ADVENTURE IN THE LIFE OF MISS LAURA MILDMAY by LE FANU, SHERIDAN:

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. Second Impression. 108 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy damp stain to front board. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.

London, Home and Van Thal, 1947;. Second impression. Hardback. Very good/ No dust jacket. 108pp with an Introductory Note by Herbert Van Thal and a frontispiece by Felix Kelly. Red slightly marked covers with gilt title on spine. .

Home and Van Thal, 1947. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, first publication under separate cover, octavo, red cloth lettered gilt to spine, lacking dust wrapper. A very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, colour frontis, 108pp.

Home and Van Thal, London, 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second impression, 1947. Red cloth with gilt spine titling, very good, cloth bright with light edgewear, small stain at front hinge and another at front board. Spine tilted forward slightly. Binding sound. Dust jacket scuffed, stained, and edgeworn, including minor intermittent chipping from edges, and multiple small tape repairs to verso. DJ protected in Mylar. Pages clean, text unmarked. With frontispiece illustration by Felix Kelly.

London: Home and Van Thal, 1947. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8" by 6". Felix Kelly. The first separately published edition of one of the gothic ghost stories of Sheridan le Fanu. The first edition thus, the first time this story was published on its own.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A gripping and darkly romantic story by the master writer of gothic ghost stories, Sheridan le Fanu. This tale was first published in 'Chronicles of Golden Friars'.Illustrated with a frontispiece.With an introduction by Herbert van Thal.Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A couple of minor marks to the boards. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Gilt to the spine is rubbed. Dust wrapper is edge worn with chips to the back strip, a couple of small chips to the rear wrap and to the folds of the flyleaves. Backstrip is discoloured, and some further marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages… Read More