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1896136508New York: New Amsterdam Book Company 1896. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-256 four inserted plates with illustrations by A. Burnham Shute original decorated mustard cloth front and spine panels stamped in black fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A partial reprint of A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES a British Christmas annual of fiction and poetry published in 1867 by Tinsley Brothers with additions and omissions. Collects eleven supernatural tales by American and British writers presented here anonymously. Includes "Dickon the Devil" by Le Fanu first appearance in a book and "What Was It" by Fitz-James O'Brien. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 13510. Bleiler 1978 p. 121. Reginald 13510. Mild dust soiling to cloth a very good copy. A better than average copy of this attractive book. #136508 New Amsterdam Book Company unknown books
1891138121New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1891. Octavo pp. 1-4 1-271 272: blank original gray wrappers printed in black. First edition. Issued as "Cassell's Sunshine Series" number 75 September 1 1891 at 50¢. An uncommon original anthology of adventure and criminous fiction by Frank R. Stockton Joaquin Miller Maurice Thompson Edgar Fawcett Anna Katharine Green and others. At least two of the stories are science fiction: "The End of All" by Andrew C. Wheeler writing as "Nym Crinkle" set in the future when life on the Earth is extinguished due to loss of atmosphere and "A Tragedy of High Explosives" by Brainard Gardner Smith which involves a super explosive a derelict ship with headless corpses a ghost and a tragic kiss. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978 or Reginald 1979; 1992. Not in Hubin 1994. Wright III 1737. BAL 5657 Fawcett. BAL 18905 Stockton. Some chipping to edges of wrappers some loss to lettering on spine faint stain to margins of a few leaves early and late a good or better copy of an elusive book -- rare in this binding. #138121 Cassell Publishing Company unknown books
188427097NY: Scribners 1884. Reprint edition. 10 volumes. Some minor binding wear o/w a very good set bound in tan cloth stamped in brown. This seems to be a reprint set with volumes 3 7 8 dated with the original publication date of 1884 the other 7 volumes are dated 1891. Includes original stories by: Rebecca Harding Davis; Frank Stockton BAL 18879; Mary Putnam Jacobi; Harriet Prescott Spofford BAL 18481; Frances Hodgson Burnett BAL 2063; Celia Thaxter BAL 19890; Constance Fennimore Woolson BAL 23463; N. P. Willis; Henry James BAL 10567; Park Benjamin; Edward Bellamy BAL 955; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Thomas Nelson Page; T. A. Janvier etc. Scribners unknown books
1884154688New York: Charles Scribners Sons 1884. Small octavo ten volumes original yellow cloth front and spine panels stamped in black. First editions first printings of all volumes with title pages of the first eight volumes dated 1884 and the last two dated 1885. Collects fifty-seven stories all but one "Venetian Glass" by Brander Matthews appears here for the first time in print first published in ATLANTIC MONTHLY SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE APPLETON'S JOURNAL CENTURY MAGAZINE PUTNAM'S MAGAZINE HARPER'S MAGAZINE OVERLAND MONTHLY THE GALAXY and other magazines and newspapers between 1863 and 1884 with the exception of "The Spider's Eye" by Lucretia P. Hale published in PUTNAM'S MAGAZINE in July 1856. Most of the stories appear here for the first time in a book and some have not been collected elsewhere. Most of the fiction is social or sentimental in orientation but a few sensational and fantastic tales are included. Among the latter are "The Transferred Ghost" by Frank R. Stockton "A Martyr to Science" by Mary Putnam Jacobi "The Spider's Eye" by Lucretia P. Hale here mistakenly attributed to Fitz-James O'Brien "The End of New York" by Park Benjamin an early American future war story first published in FICTION 31 October 1881 "The Tachypomp" and "The Ablest Man in the World" both by Edward Page Mitchell "The Life-Magnet" by Alvey A. Adee and "Manmat'ha" by Charles De Kay a lost race tale of a semitransparent people. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2112. Wright III 5267-5276 lists contents. Some wear to cloth mostly upper spine ends some spotting and considerable dust soiling to cloth stain to spine of volume 3 a sound good set. Signature of an early owner dated 1890 in all but one volume. First printing sets are now seldom found. #154688 Charles Scribners Sons unknown books
1882133668London: James Blackwood & Co. 1882. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-391 392 note: title leaf is a cancel inserted plates plus illustrations in the text original pictorial cream paper over boards printed in red blue and black top edge stained gray plain endpapers. First edition The authors of about half of the contributions are identified the most prolific being Cuthbert Bede and George Frederick Pardon the latter's short novel MAY FAIR running throughout. The list of six titles on the rear cover includes CRUIKSHANK AT HOME published by Blackwood in 1882 and one of only two of the advertised titles recorded in Topp. The current volume is not in Topp who perhaps considered it a periodical and intentionally omitted it. Not in Topp perhaps considered a periodical and intentionally omitted. Not in Wolff who probably would have bought a copy if he had found one for sale. Some general dust soiling to covers spine rubbed and a bit darkened upper spine end worn with shallow loss small chip from lower spine small stain to lower margin of frontispiece a very good internally nearly fine copy. OCLC reports 2 copies; none reported by COPAC. #133668 James Blackwood & Co. unknown books
1892WRCLIT64282Chicago: A.C. McClurg 1892. Quarto. Cream cloth lettered in gilt. Two bookplates on pastedown white cloth moderately hand soiled else a good tight copy. Cloth case faded. First edition printing contributions of the moment "sentiments dedicated to little children" in autograph facsimile by Hardy James Kipling Jewett Howe Holmes Meredith Tchaikowsky political dignitaries et al. BAL 10901. A.C. McClurg hardcover books
189432059New York: Crowell 1894. Red cloth faded light wear. Ownership signature of Max L. Abramson a cousin of Leonore Gershwin who was a drama critic in the teens and became a friend of George Gershwin. With frequent annotations or marks of emphasis of intederminate authorship; two pages containing Hood's "Bridge of Sighs" removed. From lyricist Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Crowell hardcover books
183548125Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co. 18 Rue Vivienne 1835. 1st edition. Contemporary brown half- leather with marbled boards. Gilt stamping to spine. Slight lean average wear. Later poi to t.p. top margin. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 4 331 1 blank pp. 12mo signed in 6s. <br/><br/>A mostly anonymous collection of stories 25 in number. Rare volume not found in the NUC and with OCLC showing only one institutional holding the British Library. Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co. 18, Rue Vivienne hardcover books
1875WRCLIT68114New York: Henry Holt 1875. xvi24011pp. Small quarto 21 x 16cm. Contemporary full dark brown crushed morocco gilt extra a.e.g. A bit of rubbing to fore-tips and edges else very good or better. A somewhat curious large-paper rendering of this anthology with a pictorial title and sectional vignettes drawn by John A. Mitchell and engraved by Henry Marsh. Henry Holt unknown books
1855114902Boston: Dayton and Wentworth 1855. Octavo pp. i-iii iv v 6 25 26-334 note: text complete despite gap in pagination flyleaves at front and rear engraved frontispiece by George B. Ellis after a painting by R. W. Buss head and tailpieces in text original decorated cloth front spine and rear panels stamped in blind First edition The contents page lists story titles and chapter titles indiscriminately thus giving the false impression that this volume contains some forty stories. The actual contents are "Two Millionaires" novella by Sarah Fry with German setting "'I Owe You Nothing Sir'" short story among English high society "Notes of a Journey Across the Isthmus of Panama" sketch "The Two Passports" short story with an intercalated adventure tale set during the Napoleonic wars "Australia and Van Diemen's Land" long sketch "The Fairy Cup" a short fairy tale by Alfred Crowquill "The White Swallow" novelette set among American Indians "Fowling in Faroe and Shetland" sketch of Scottish rural life "A Fuqueer's Curse" humorous story about an Indian fakir "The Deserts of Africa" long geographical sketch "Life in an Indiaman" naval novelette "The Dealer in Wisdom" Arabian Nights story with a dollop of fantasy "The Key of the Street" sketch about being a hobo for a night in London. The material all with exotic or foreign settings is oddly at variance with the book's title which as the preface explains alludes to the entrepreneurialism of the New Englander. Wright American Fiction 1851-1875 cites Wentworth & Co. as the primary imprint noting that this book was also issued by Dayton & Wentworth as in the present copy; he notes subsequent re-titled editions by Wentworth & Co. 1856 and by Wentworth and Company 1857. The book is copyright 1855 by Dayton and Wentworth. The absence of Dayton from the three other imprints two of which were obviously later suggests that Dayton and Wentworth was the original imprint. This book appears to be of British not American origin. Wright II 2828. Re-cased in the original cloth with new headbands and new endpapers light scattered foxing else a very good copy. #114902 Dayton and Wentworth unknown books
1900118041Chicago: Daily Story Publishing Company 1900. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-2 3-325 326: blank twenty inserted plates with illustrations by J. Greville Wilmot original two-part white and purple cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. 325-page anonymously edited anthology with thirty stories by Octave Thanet Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Charles King George Ade Irving Batcheller Opie Read Elia W. Peattie Albert Bigelow Paine and others. Several of the stories are supernatural including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read about a mummy "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller dreams and insanity and "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett a strange flower and insanity. According to Publisher's Weekly two 5000-copy press runs were required to meet the public demand for the book. BAL 6363 Freeman. Wright III 4931. White spine a bit dusty else a bright clean very good copy. #118041 Daily Story Publishing Company unknown books
1896118301London: Chatto & Windus 1896. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-3 4-171 172: blank 1-4: ads 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "March 1896" inserted at rear twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Frank Brangwyn original pictorial blue cloth stamped in light brown dark brown and gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed white endpapers with floral designed printed in green. First edition. Collects five nautical stories: "The Smugglers of the Clone" by S. R. Crockett "There is Sorrow on the Sea" by Gilbert Parker" The Path of Murtogh" by Harold Frederic "The Roll-Call of the Reef" by Q i.e. Arthur Quiller-Couch and "'That There Mason'" by W. Clark Russell. "The Roll-Call of the Reef" reprinted from THE WANDERING HEATH 1895 is one of Q's best and best-known ghost stories. BAL 6288 Frederic. Early owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips several small scuffs to rear cover some foxing to preliminaries a very good copy. #118301 Chatto & Windus unknown books
1856157441New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. 1856. 12mo pp. 324 original decorated gray green cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. "Putnam's Story Library" at head of title. An anthology of twenty-two tales by unspecified authors: "the best selections from the standard story literature of the English language" according to the editor's preface. Most of the material appears to be British. "The Sultan's Bear" from CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL is an amusing oriental satire. "The Ghost-Raiser" from HARPER'S is a clever tale of a confidence scam. "The Pierced Skull" is a murder mystery; "Our Major's Story" is a tale of somnambulism. Other material is sentimental romantic etc. This is one apparently the first of several books at least five in "Putnam's Story Library" series. Wright II 1727. Mild shallow chip from cloth at upper end some tanning and foxing to text block a very good copy. Superior condition for this book. A scarce book. #157441 G. P. Putnam & Co. unknown books
187941542New York: Beadle and Adams 98 William St 1879. 1st printing cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 401. Pale orange printed wrappers with the reverse dime cut. Series advert to rear wrapper lists through No. 24 with this title advertised as a "new book" on inner front wrapper. Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing. A solid VG copy. 2 9 - 92 10 = 96 pp. Adverts last 10 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. Text illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 6-5/16" x 4-1/16" <br/><br/> Beadle and Adams, 98 William St unknown books
1863119333London: Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society 1863. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-288 five illustrations original pebbled gray cloth spine titled and ruled in gold. First edition Perhaps a later printing circa 1880s of this collection of didactic adventure fiction probably intended for young readers. These stories were probably first published THE LEISURE HOUR an illustrated penny-weekly paper which featured moralistic self-improving serial novels most of them published anonymously. Includes "Tale of a Detective" pp. 102-131 a crime story set in 1845. All the stories are presented anonymously but "A Race for Life" is credited to the author of "Danesbury House" and "A Life Secret" i.e. "A Life's Secret" both works written by Ellen Price Wood Mrs. Henry Wood. A popular book reprinted many times into the early twentieth century. Thirteen stories in all. "The Power of Music" tells two stories one about Bach another about Gluck. Hubin 1994 p. 24. A tight clean very good copy. #119333 Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1900164610Chicago: Daily Story Publishing Company 1900. Octavo pp. 1-2 1-2 3-325 326: blank twenty inserted plates with illustrations by J. Greville Wilmot original two-part white and purple cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. 325-page anonymously edited anthology with thirty stories by Octave Thanet Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Charles King George Ade Irving Batcheller Opie Read Elia W. Peattie Albert Bigelow Paine and others. Several of the stories are supernatural including "The Princess Yepti" by Opie Read about a mummy "The Night of a Thousand Years" by Irving Bacheller dreams and insanity and "The Rose of Hell" by Mrs. General George E. Pickett a strange flower and insanity. According to Publisher's Weekly two 5000-copy press runs were required to meet the public demand for the book. BAL 6363 Freeman. Wright III 4931. Corner tips lightly worn some spotting and soiling to cloth a very good copy. #164610 Daily Story Publishing Company unknown books
1893135710New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1893. Small octavo six volumes frontispiece in each volume numerous vignettes in text title pages printed in black blue and orange original maroon cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold top edges gilt other edges untrimmed decorated endpapers. Mixed mostly first editions. A full set of the six individual anthologies issued in 1893 all reprinting short stories from SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE: STORIES OF NEW YORK STORIES OF ITALY STORIES OF THE ARMY STORIES OF THE SEA STORIES OF THE SOUTH STORIES OF THE RAILWAY. All are first editions except STORIES OF ITALY which is an 1894 reprint. The NEW YORK volume includes Edith Wharton's short story "Mrs. Manstey's View" her first prose work to appear in a book. All volumes except STORIES OF ITALY contain supernatural material. Garrison B2. Three volumes NEW YORK SOUTH and RAILWAY lack the front free endpaper one SEA with considerable foxing and some stains to covers generally a good to very good set. #135710 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1890119301Paris London Chicago New York Washington: Brentano's 1890. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-193 194-196: blank note: last leaf is a blank original gray cloth spine panel stamped in gold t.e.g. fore and bottom edges trimmed. First U.S. edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Preface signed in type: "C.J.T." Five novelettes weird and mystery: "A Strange Bride" variant on "The Death Bride" in Mrs. Utterson's TALES OF THE DEAD 1813 "The Crazy Half-Heller" is Fouque's "The Bottle Imp" "The Goldsmith of the Rue Nicaise" is Hoffmann's "Mademoiselle de Scudari." Barron ed Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1583. Bleiler 1978 p. 37. Reginald 13944. Slight spine lean light wear to cloth at lower front corner tip free endpapers tanned a very good copy. #119301 Brentano's unknown books
1890156304Paris London Chicago New York Washington: Brentano's 1890. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-178 179-180: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks original gray cloth spine panel stamped in gold t.e.g. fore and bottom edges trimmed. First edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Author of all these tales is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 1836-1870 known as "the Spanish Poe" the most famous nineteenth century Spanish writer of supernatural fiction also very influential on Latin American fiction. This is one of only two English-language collections extant the other being the Romantic Legends of Spain Crowell 1909. Barron ed Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1585. Bleiler 1978 p. 37. Reginald 13946. Remnants of pictorial label affixed to front paste-down inked names on front free endpaper and first blank. Binding slightly leaned wear to corner tips spine ends a bit rubbed a closed split in cloth along outer rear joint light ring stain to front cover free endpapers tanned a very good tight copy with a clean interior. #156304 Brentano's unknown books
1881WRCLIT73707New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Printers 1881. 256pp. Bright blue cloth decorated in black lettered in rustic type in gilt. Spine ends a bit rubbed and spine a trace darkened offset to two pages from absent place marker but a very good copy with the booklabel of the Betts Collection at Yale and another related bookplate properly withdrawn and an early private bookplate. First edition. A substantial compilation though some of it anonymous. Authorship is noted when known but the compilers opted out of indexing same perhaps because their own identified contributions would have overwhelmed the index. [Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers] hardcover books
184235483Nashua: Published by David Marshall 1842. 1st edition American Imprints 42-1865. Publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Yellow eps. Wear to extremities with board showing at tips. Period pos & po book label to front paste-down. A VG copy. 10 2 13 - 391 3 blank pp. Errata tipped-in to p. 391. 7-3/4" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Published by David Marshall hardcover books
1897WRCLIT62082Boston: L.C. Page and Company 1897. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth by Amy Sacker t.e.g. others untrimmed. Frontis. First edition this being the special issue for Harvard so denoted on the spine and in the design on the upper board. Spine darkened cloth lightly soiled else a very good sound copy. Verse selected from undergraduate publications. L.C. Page and Company hardcover books
1886164007Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1886. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-468 1-12: ads inserted frontispiece original brown cloth stamped in black and gold light brown endpapers pink silk ribbon marker. First edition Issued as part of Porter & Coates' "Alta Edition." Marketed as a Christmas gift book for children. The stories all presented anonymously include fairy tales as well as adult melodramas. Several of the stories appeared in the anonymously edited anthology THE BAKED HEAD AND OTHER TALES. NOW FIRST COLLECTED AND FORMING THE SECOND VOLUME OF "PUTNAM'S STORY LIBRARY" New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. 1856 including "Story of the Baked Head" and "Infatuation" the latter concerning forgery. Not a children's book or a book of holiday stories. The American Catalogue dates this book 1886 but provides a different subtitle: CHRISTMAS STORIES: SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST WRITERS. So this may be a later printing. Not in Wright American Fiction 1876-1900. Early owner's name dated Christmas 1891 on front free endpaper. A very good copy. #164007 Porter & Coates unknown books
18216505London: T. Boys 1821. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice little books with engraved titles. A three volume set bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Bindings worn and dry. Contents very good. <br/><br/> London: T. Boys hardcover books
186841481New York: Beadle and Adams 98 William Street 1868. Ca late 1879 cf. Johannsen BEADLE I p. 405. Yellowish orange printed wrappers with the reverse dime cut. Wear & soiling to wrappers. Text paper yellowing with bookseller stamp to upper corner of t.p. Very Good. v - viii 9 - 95 5 = 96 pp. Adverts last 4 pages. Woodcut vignette of a young man orating from a stump to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4" <br/><br/> Beadle and Adams, 98 William Street unknown books
