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STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects Wakefield's introduction and the fourteen stories published in the 1961 Arkham House edition, here printed with textual changes made by Wakefield in the margins of a copy of the 1961 edition presented to his sister Mary. Adds four previously uncollected stories first published in original anthologies edited by August Derleth between 1962 and 1971 and "introduction" by Barbara Roden.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections."– Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections."– Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641.
THE CORPSE WITH THE GRIMY GLOVE.
New York: Popular Library, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Popular Library #139. Mystery novel.
LUDLOW'S MILL.
New York: Tor/Pinnacle Books, [1981]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Horror novel.
THE MASK.
[New York]: A Jove Book, [1981]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
OUT OUR WAY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Compilation of cartoons which first appeared in newspapers centered on the West and cowboy life. Copyright page dates from 1924-1943.
FROST AT CHRISTMAS.
London: Constable, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. The first Inspector Frost mystery novel, this is the first hardcover edition (first published in paperback in 1984 in Canada). The Frost books became the basis for a U.K. television series.
INVASION.
Ontario, Canada: Laser Books [Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Laser Books #9. Paperback original.
INVASION.
Ontario, Canada: Laser Books [Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Laser Books #9. Paperback original. Fine in wrappers.
DEATH IN A LITTLE TOWN.
Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. This is a scarce member's edition from The Crime Club, bound in red cloth instead of the usual black cloth and with a dust jacket which has no price and has the words Member's Edition included in front panel lettering. Subscribers to The Crime Club would receive their copies in the mail before the book went on sale in the stores. "For a period of time Member's Editions were bound in red cloth and had different dust jackets." - Nehr, Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991, p. xv. In the heyday of The Crime Club, which started in 1928, they had over 4,000 subscribers, of which two of the originals remained receiving books that way until 1953. (During WW II Doubleday stopped taking memberships though allowed all previous subscribers to remain).
THE WAGES OF VIRTUE.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1927]. Octavo, original light blue cloth stamped in black. Later edition. Adventure novel of the French Foreign Legion.