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THE NEW GULLIVER OR TRAVELS IN ATHOMIA ...
Westminster: The Roxburghe Press, Limited, n.d., [1897]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-x [xi] xii-xiii [xiv-xvi] [1] 2-160, sixteen plates with illustrations by T. P. Collings, title page printed in green, original pictorial tan cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in red and navy blue, all edges untrimmed, brown coated endpapers. First edition. The narrator, a professor of natural sciences, is shrunk to insect size and encounters pleasure and peril while exploring his garden. "A sugarcoated natural history lesson." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 72. Bleiler (1978), p. 64. Reginald 04521.
SIX GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints the stories collected in the 1919 John Murray edition with new introduction by Dalby. Six supernatural tales, four of which follow the literary conventions for the ghost story formulated by M. R. James. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-103. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 892. Bleiler (1978), p. 108. Reginald 07751.
OLD FIRES AND PROFITABLE GHOSTS: A BOOK OF STORIES.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1900. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-341 [342: printer's imprint] [343-344: ads] + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "10.06" inserted at rear, original olive-green vertically ribbed cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge untrimmed, other edges trimmed, plain endpapers. First edition, later issue (earlier issues are bound in red buckram, t.e.g., other edges trimmed or untrimmed, with inserted ads dated September 1900). Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1356. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-207. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11952. Hubin (1994), p. 662. NCBEL III 1072.
OLD FIRES AND PROFITABLE GHOSTS: A BOOK OF STORIES.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1900. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-341 [342: printer's imprint] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "9.00" inserted at rear, original red buckram, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. First edition, first issue, variant with fore and bottom edges of text block untrimmed. Quiller-Couch's best collection of short fiction, including classic ghost stories, "A Pair of Hands" and "The Seventh Man." Also "Oceanus," visions of infernal regions; "The Lady of the Ship," shipwrecked Bohemian witch; and "The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem," the end of the Wandering Jew. Also a horrific suspense story "The Room of Mirrors." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 152. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-161. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1356. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-207. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11952. Hubin (1994), p. 662. NCBEL III 1072.
WANDERING HEATH: STORIES, STUDIES, AND SKETCHES by Q [pseudonym] ...
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1895. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-293 [294: printer's imprint] [295-296: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank] + [16]-page publisher's catalogue dated "10.95" on page [1] inserted at rear, original purplish red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. First edition. Mixed collection of fourteen Cornish tales, including classic, "The Roll-Call of the Reef," nautical ghosts, also "The Legend of Sir Dinar," Arthurian knight held in thrall by beautiful vampire who steals his youth. Also two drolls, "My Grandfather, Hendry Watty," dream story with ghosts; and "Widdershins," folkloristic magic. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p.152. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1355. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 342. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 415. Bleiler (1978), p. 162. Reginald 11954. Hubin (1994), p. 660. NCBEL III 1072.
SLEEP NO MORE.Introduction by Christopher Roden and an Afterword by Hugh Lamb.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 400 copies. A reprint of the 1948 edition with two new stories, The Shouting and The House of Vengeance, both written after the publication of SLEEP NO MORE, and Rolt's 1956 essay, The Passing of the Ghost Story, a new introduction by Christopher Roden, and an afterword by Hugh Lamb. Supernatural tales, traditional in theme and treatment, somewhat after the manner of M. R. James. An exceptionally original collection of ghost stories ... Rolt had the special talent of combining folkloric spontaneity with artful sophistication. - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 355. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 156. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-170. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1415. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
AURELIUS SMITH-DETECTIVE.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-274 [275-276: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. Collection of twelve mystery stories by the author who penned the first two Spider pulp novels. The Secret Service Smith character is thought by some to be the inspiration for Richard Wentworth/The Spider. While first appearing as a Secret Service agent in his later adventures he leaves the service and becomes a detective based in New York in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes.
CLUES OF THE CARIBBEES: BEING CERTAIN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HENRY POGGIOLI, PH.D.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-319 [320: blank], top edge stained brown, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough cut, yellow illustrated end papers, blue cloth backed reddish purple boards, paper label to spine, top edge stained purple, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Collection of criminal investigations set in the Caribbean by Dr. Henry Poggioli, Ph. D, psychologist and criminologist. All fist published in Adventure pulp magazine 1925-26. "Charles Honce remarks that the concluding story "is positively thunderous; it will knock you right out of your seat." - Haycraft: Murder For Pleasure, pp. 163. Stribling revived the character in the 1940s and 1950s. Queen's Quorum #80. Haycraft - Queen cornerstone volume. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Afficianado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 762-63. Hubin, p. 780. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 107.