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THE SOUL SIFTERS: A NOVEL OF PSCHO-ANALYSIS.
London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., [1923]. Octavo, [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-279 [280, blank] + 24 page publishers catalog dated January 1923, original red cloth, front stamped in black and blind, spine stamped in black. First edition. Melodramatic novel of a young man who has lost his memory and also suffering from shell shock and his treatment.
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.
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.
THE LOST WORLD.
New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, n.d. [circa 1925]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Photoplay edition issued with the release of the 1925 First National film directed by Harry Hoyt and starring Wallace Beery, it has four stills from the motion picture. Interestingly this film is the first use of stop motion animation and features the work of animator Willis O'Brien who in 1933 would create King Kong. Another important note is that this film version of the Lost World was a 'lost' film. In a contractual agreement, all know prints (positive and negative) were destroyed in 1929. A truncated 16mm print was what remained until the 1990s when a nearly full length print was discovered in the film archives of the Czech Republic. Today two restored versions exist, one available on DVD, nearly complete and a third longer than any version up to this time with 30 minutes of footage replaced, the other restoration is the property of Eastman Kodak (information from an article an online article at DVD journal website).
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.
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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.
THE HORROR ON THE STAIR AND OTHER WEIRD TALES. Edited and introduction by S. T. Joshi.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects twenty-six stories, mostly revised. Introduction by S.T. Joshi.
THE HORROR ON THE STAIR AND OTHER WEIRD TALES. Edited and introduction by S. T. Joshi.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects twenty-six stories, mostly revised. Introduction by S.T. Joshi.