SFcat from William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

NY & London: Putnam's, 1909. First edition of this version.. Red pictorial cloth designed and lettered in gilt. 373pp. One leaf of ads at the rear. 24 color plates. A very bright and attractive copy, some faint rubbing and a pictorial bookplate on the inner front cover. A very nice copy. An attractive re-packaging of the Tim Pippin fantastic… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (Copyright 1871, but bound ca.1880). . Original brown pictorial cloth with a floral design, spine and front cover designed and lettered in black, the spine titled ("Eva's Adventures") on a panel of gilt. The end papers bear publisher's advertisments. One leaf of ads at the rear. The two works bound together, separately paginated (169 + 117). Ownership… Read more about this item

London: Orpheus Series, [1912]. First edition.. Square 8vo. Dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover. Some fraying at the top of the spine, two ownership signatures, a clean very good copy. Issued as No. VIII in the Orpheus Series. Two tales, of supernatural interest, by composer Clifford Bax writing under the pseudonym of Dermot… Read more about this item

London, etc.: Cassell, 1887. First edition.. Red pictorial cloth designed and lettered in black on spine and front cover, title in gilt on spine, floral design in black on rear cover. Floral patterned end papers. Armorial bookplate on the inner front cover, modest dust soiling and light edge wear; a fresh very good copy. A page has been carelessly… Read more about this item

NY: Ballantine, 1981.. Uncorrected galley proofs for the 1981 first edition. Long galleys, short tears and wear to outer sheet, very good condition. Publisher's info sheet pasted over title; it is loose as the glue has dried out. Some small pen notes on label. The title is misspelled on the label: Out Of The Evrywhere .... .

Minneapolis: Central High School, 1925.. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 52pp. plus 6 pages of ads at rear. Edited by Paul Elder. Some light cover soiling, an attractive very good copy. Carl Jacobi contributes a short story, "The Lost Tapestry", and is also listed as an Associate Editor for the magazine. The story occupies pages 11-13, and has one illustration. R.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Gwyer, (1926). First edition.. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained red. An ownership inscription and a couple of small ink stamps on end papers and occasional pages, from a private lending library, small marks to page edges and a few margins, a very good copy. Mystery and Science Fiction, a tale involving radioactivity… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First edition.. Dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge not gilt. Small ownership signature on front end paper, a little discoloration of cloth at the fore-edges, a bright very good copy. This is the second binding, with no lettering on the front cover; the first binding had gilt lettering on the spine… Read more about this item

London: Stanley Paul, 1909. First edition.. Red pictorial cloth, the front cover designed in black, spine designed in black and lettered in gilt. One leaf of ads at the front, 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear dated Autumn, 1909. Cloth split along rear hinge, spine faded, some chips to cloth at edges, generally a very good copy otherwise. Locke: Spectrum… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Sun Publishing Co., (1921). First edition.. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration of covers, splitting along rear hinge, moderate wear to corners, a very good copy. A racist yellow-peril novel, which was republished by the University of Toronto in 1974, with an introduction by Patricia E. Roy. From the U of T site: "With tales of a gruesome… Read more about this item

London: Dobson, (1969). First British and first hardcover edition.. cat40a. Brown boards, spine lettered in silver. A fine copy in a very nice dust jacket, faint edge wear and a tiny stain at the lower corner of the front panel.

NY: Collier, 1889. First American edition. . Original tan pictorial wrappers, designed and lettered in red, bound into a later binding of cloth & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. This first American edition was issued only in paper wrappers; the British edition appeared slightly earlier the same year. Paper browning at edges, but a very nice clean… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, 1889. First edition.. Original tan pictorial wrappers, designed and lettered in red, bound into a later binding of cloth & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Paper browning at edges, but a very nice clean copy. A noted future-war tale. BAL 18894. Bleiler: Science Fiction, The Early Years, 2104.

London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1903. First edition.. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Black end papers. Frontispiece & 15 illustrations by Byam Shaw. Repairs to cracked inner hinges, some wear to binding extremities, subscription library stickers on front cover (Mudie's Select Library, supplanted by Westley's Library); generally very good otherwise.

London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1888. Thirty-First to Fortieth Thousand.. Black cloth lettered in red. Patterned end papers with the Longman swan/sailing ship design. No ads at rear. A clean & attractive copy. First published 1888, this is a very early printing in the same format as the first edition.

London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1927. New Impression. Silver Library Edition.. Red cloth, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and 22 plates by Charles Kerr. A bright and attractive copy of the Silver Library Edition. First published in 1892.

London: Longmans, Green, 1893. Third Edition.. Burgundy cloth, designed and lettered in silver. Brown end papers. Seventeen full-page plates by Lancelot Speed, as well as numerous illustrations in the text. 24-page publisher's catalogue at the rear, dated 3/93. Slight bubbling of cloth, light wear, a clean and attractive very good copy. First published in 1891, this is the 1893… Read more about this item

London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1908. New Impression.. Plum cloth, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Patterned end papers with the Longman swan/ship design. Frontispiece and fifteen plates by D. Murray Smith. Some wear to spine ends, small marks to cloth, a very good copy. First published by Hurst & Blackett in 1884, in three volumes; this is the 1908… Read more about this item

London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1894. First edition.. Dark blue buckram, beveled edges, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Black end papers. Frontispiece & 15 plates by Arthur Layard. 24-page publisher's catalogue at the rear dated 9/94. The first impression issue points are present: page vi misnumbered ii; the word "auctioneers" mis-spelled "auctoineers" on page 1, line 21. A… Read more about this item

London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1899. First British edition.. Dark blue cloth, beveled edges, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Black end papers. Frontispiece & 7 illustrations by Greiffenhagen. Some wear to lower tips, corner torn from page 20/21 (not affecting text), some pencil marks on preliminary leaf; in general, a bright very good copy. The first British edition,… Read more about this item