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VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. ].
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv-vi] 7-288 + 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 31-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 31. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01137].
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv-vi] 7-288 + 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 31-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 31. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01137].
THE FACE: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME FOUR. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 600 copies printed. The fourth of five volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from December 1923 to November 1927.
THE INHERITOR.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-316 [317-318: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original decorated dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. This novel "features a family curse -- engendering the birth of monsters -- and a protagonist tempted by perversion." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 106. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 146. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01131].
MRS AMWORTH: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME THREE. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collection of sixteen stories first published 1922-23. The third volume in the projected five volume collection of Benson's stories.
THE PASSENGER: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME TWO. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. The second of five projected volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from 1912-1921.
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER AND OTHER STORIES ...
London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1912]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-338 [339-344: ads] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Benson's first collection of ghost stories. "By far the best of his four books of ghost stories, this contains seventeen tales, each almost too well-rounded to fault." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 30. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 32. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 139. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 81. Penzoldt, The Supernatural in Fiction, p. 257. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-15. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01134].
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER AND OTHER STORIES ...
London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1912]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-338 [339-344: ads] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Benson's first collection of ghost stories. "By far the best of his four books of ghost stories, this contains seventeen tales, each almost too well-rounded to fault." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 30. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 32. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 139. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 81. Penzoldt, The Supernatural in Fiction, p. 257. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-15. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01134].
SEA MIST: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME FIVE. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2005. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 600 copies printed. The last of five volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from 1927-40.
SEA MIST: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME FIVE. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2005. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 600 copies printed. The last of five volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from 1927-40.
THE TERROR BY NIGHT: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME ONE. Edited by Jack Adrian
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. First volume in a projected five volume series of Benson's supernatural tales. The stories from this volume date from 1899-1911.
THE TERROR BY NIGHT: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME ONE. Edited by Jack Adrian
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. First volume in a projected five volume series of Benson's supernatural tales. The stories from this volume date from 1899-1911.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, dark blue cloth. First edition, later binding. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, dark blue cloth. First edition, later binding. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
MAN OF MANY MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Mel Hunter, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies inscribed and signed by Evans. This is copy 158. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
THE PLANET MAPPERS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Young adult sf adventure novel.
THE WAR OF THE WENUSES. Translated from the Artesian of H. G. Pozzuoli ...
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith ... London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, n.d., [1898]. Small octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-140 [141-144: ads], original pictorial white wrappers printed in red, yellow and black. First edition. A fine parody of H. G. Wells's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Earth is invaded by beautiful Venusian women. "A 'Punch-style' parody ... in which the natives of Venus, young ladies, invade earth (in giant crinolines) in a quest for sartorial improvements, devastating all males with the dreaded 'mash' glance." - Locke, Voyages in Space 88. [Reference: Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 915. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 356. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 24. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749, p. 230. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 95. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 457. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 115. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 73. Bleiler (1978), p. 85. Reginald 06255. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks and Paperbacks, 1849-1905 VIII, p. 244].
AT THE VILLA ROSE.
New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1910. Octavo, original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First U. S. edition. The first Hanaud mystery. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
THE HOUSE IN LORDSHIP LANE.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Inspector Hanaud novel.
THE PRISONER IN THE OPAL.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Formerly the Adrian Goldstone copy with his bookplate to front paste down. The third Hanaud novel. Mystery involving Devil worship.
TROUBLE ON TITAN ...
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1954]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Rebellious miners on Saturn's moon Titan, whose ancestors were exiled there centuries before and forced to mine the metal now responsible for Earth's prosperity, plan to ruin the Earth and flee the Solar System. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.
TROUBLE ON TITAN ...
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1954]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Rebellious miners on Saturn's moon Titan, whose ancestors were exiled there centuries before and forced to mine the metal now responsible for Earth's prosperity, plan to ruin the Earth and flee the Solar System. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.