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196388559New York: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation 1963. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F712. Collects nine stories by Ray Bradbury Frederik Pohl Jerome Bixby Algis Budrys and others. Neat owner's name at upper right corner of first leaf touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips a near fine bright copy. #88559 A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation unknown books
196574595London: Corgi Books A Division of Transworld Publishers 1965. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corgi Books GN7272. Collects six stories by Matthew Gregory Lewis Ambrose Bierce Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne and Richard Middleton. Reginald 01359. Text block a trifle age-darkened cover edges lightly rubbed a near fine copy. #74595 Corgi Books A Division of Transworld Publishers unknown books
1956127596London: William Heinemann 1956. Octavo cloth. First edition. The first book in this series of anthologies. A collection of fifteen short stories. Some rubbing and staining along front hinge a very good copy in very good dust jacket with short closed tear at upper edge front panel and moderate soiling. #127596 William Heinemann unknown books
1991104220New York: Tor 1991. Octavo boards. First edition. Collects "Cafe Purgatorium" by Dana M. Anderson "Dr. Krusadian's Method" by Ray Garton and "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint. Anonymously edited by David G. Hartwell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #104220 Tor unknown books
19919535New York: Tor 1991. Octavo boards. First edition. Collects "Cafe Purgatorium" by Dana M. Anderson "Dr. Krusadian's Method" by Ray Garton and "Death Leaves an Echo" by Charles de Lint. Anonymously edited by David G. Hartwell. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #9535 Tor unknown 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
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
116440Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co Publishers. Octavo pp. 1-4 5-286 287-288: blank note: last leaf is a blank printed in pink and black throughout original boards with color pictorial paper onlay on front panel decorated endpapers. First edition. Ten stories by Bulwer-Lytton Miss Mitford Agnes Strickland Mrs. Gore and others. A pretty little book with an unusual binding: a strip of cloth extends about a half-inch under the front and rear boards and goes over the spine board: printed paper labels on spine and front provide the title and decoration while decorative endpapers hold it all together. The front pictorial onlay has a nice drawing in the manner of Edmund Frederick of an idealized young woman. 1913 Christmas gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Several old Christmas stickers pasted to endpapers. A nearly fine copy. Scarce. OCLC reports 3 copies; no copies reported by COPAC. #116440 George W. Jacobs & Co Publishers unknown books
196488070New York: Belmont Books 1964. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont Books 92-606. Collects seven stories by Philip K. Dick Frank Russell Poul Anderson and others. Reginald 09795. Touch of dust soiling to rear cover a bright nearly fine copy. #88070 Belmont Books unknown books
196594477New York: Belmont Books 1965. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-646. Collects eight stories by Philip K. Dick Lester del Rey Eric Frank Russell two selections Robert Silverberg M. C. Pease Frederik Pohl and George H. Smith. A fine copy. #94477 Belmont Books unknown books
196886530New York: Delacorte Press 1968. Octavo boards. First U.S. edition. Collects eight stories by the Strugatskys G. Gor Anatoly Dneprov and others. The U.S. edition adds an introduction by Judith Merril not present in the earlier 1966 British edition published by Macgibbon & Kee. Reginald 11215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #86530 Delacorte Press unknown books
1910113762London: Truth" Office 1910. Octavo pp. 1-4 1-244 original pictorial gray wrappers printed in red. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Paper wrappers dusty a very good copy. Scarce. #113762 Truth" Office unknown books
1927113763London: Truth Office 1927. Octavo pp. 1-10 1-164 165: ad 166: blank note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs original pictorial orange wrappers printed in black pasted over stiff boards. First edition. Mixed collection of commercial fiction including horror and criminous tales. Covers dusty a very good copy. #113763 Truth Office 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
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
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
1901133470New York: McClure 1901. Small octavo pp. 1-10 11-164 165-168: blank note: last two leaves are blanks inserted frontispiece. title leaf and extra title leaf printed in orange and black original red cloth stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Seven stories by Marion Hill two contributions George Madden Martin G. K. Turner Ellisworth Kelley Louise Herrick Wall and Annie Webster. Smith Y-51. A very good copy. #133470 McClure 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
1924159645New York: Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press 1924. Small octavo pp. 1-6 1-2 3-330 original cloth-backed boards. First edition. A collection of fifteen stories by Sherwood Anderson D. H. Lawrence Conrad Aiken Mary Butts A. E. Coppard Thomas Mann and others. Includes "The Gentleman from San Francisco" buy Ivan Bunin. A few leaves a bit wrinkled at lower front corner tips a very good copy. #159645 Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press unknown books
1901113147London: The Religious Tract Society 1901. Octavo pp. 1-4 56 7 8 9-332 note: title leaf is an inserted leaf conjugate with frontispiece both of which are included in the publisher's pagination 23 inserted plates including frontispiece original pictorial brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in gray black and gold. First edition. Nineteen short stories most with historical settings. "The Crimson Chamber" and "A Night in the Old Oak Chamber" are rationalized ghost stories. "The Forlorn Shop" is a novelette of crime. Free endpapers tanned preliminaries and fore-edge of text block foxed else a fine copy of a handsome book. #113147 The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1897135960New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1897. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-192 illustrations title page printed in orange and black original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Six stories by Earl Joslyn George H. Jessop James T. McKay Annie Howells Fréchette Lizzie Hyer Neff and James F. McKay. Wright III 5360. A fine copy. #135960 Doubleday & McClure Co. unknown books
1897135961New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1897. Small octavo pp. 1-10 1-170 171-174: blank note: last two leaves are blanks illustrations title page printed in orange and black original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Seven stories by Robert Barr Louise Chandler Moulton and others. Wright III 5362. A fine copy. #135961 Doubleday & McClure Co. unknown books
1897135962New York: Doubleday & McClure Co. 1897. Small octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-195 196: blank note: first leaf is a blank illustrations title page printed in orange and black original flexible red cloth stamped in gold. First edition. Seven stories by Octave Thanet William Allen White and others. Wright III 5363. A fine copy. #135962 Doubleday & McClure Co. 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
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