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GHOSTS IN THE HOUSE. Introduction by Hugh Lamb.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 400 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects nineteen stories, all selected from A. C. Benson's THE HILL OF TROUBLE (1903), THE ISLE OF SUNSET (1905) and BASIL NETHERBY (1927) and R. H. Benson's THE LIGHT INVISIBLE (1903) and A MIRROR OF SHALOTT (1907), plus "Haunted Houses," a nonfiction article by R. H. Benson first reprinted here, with introduction by editor Hugh Lamb.
GHOSTS IN THE HOUSE. Introduction by Hugh Lamb.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 400 copies. Collects stories from the A.C. Benson's THE HILL OF TROUBLE, THE ISLES OF SUNSET and BASIL NETHERBY and R.H. Benson's THE LIGHT INVISIBLE and THE MIRROR OF SHALOTT.
BLACK INFINITY.
London: John Spencer & Co (Publishers) Limited, n.d., [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Badger Books SN44. Paperback original. Supernatural novel of Black Magic and Witchcraft. Reginald 05051.
ZARLAH THE MARTIAN.
New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, [1909]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-194 [note: title leaf is a cancel tipped in on a stub], inserted frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Visual communication is established with an advanced civilization on Mars and a human spirit is scientifically transferred into the body of one of the Martian inhabitants. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 956. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 372. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 99. Locke, Voyages in Space 94. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 473. Kopp 825. Not in Lewis (1984) or Sargent (1988). Bleiler (1978), p. 88. Reginald 06417. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 G-544. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1509.
THE EXCORCISTS.
London: John Spencer & Co (Publishers), Ltd., n.d., [1965]. Small octavo, cover by Henry Fox, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Badger Books SN 94. A supernatural novel.
THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-352, original medium blue cloth, spine panel stamped in dark blue. First edition. The publisher's advance "special presentation issue" (so stated on title page and front panel of the jacket), limited to 200 copies (as per publisher's letter laid in). A classic catastrophe novel depicting survival after the earth is struck by the moon. "A superior work." -Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-341. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-517; (1981) 3-666; and (2004) II-1002. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 175-76. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 75. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 154. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 194. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 248. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 178. Reginald 13020.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: A STORY OF CRIME BY...
[Glasgow]: The Detective Story Club Ltd. for Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., nd, [c. 1929]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-254 [255-256], original black boards, front and spine stamped in gold. Later edition. A volume in Collins Detective Story Club series which was the precursor to the Collins Crime Club.
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.