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201747634Folio Society 2017. 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispiece and 5 coloured illustrations; metallic sand buckram upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and brown red endpapers a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case. Folio Society, hardcover
197117073JNew York: Stein and Day 1971. First Edition First Printing. Signed by both Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch in black ink. Hardcover in dust jacket; illustrated with black and white photos; green boards / red spine stamped with black pictorial of Christopher Lee as also seen on the dust jacket. Collection of 18 stories on which 18 classic horror films were based. In his introductions to each story Peter Haining provides information on the story itself and the film made from it along with a black and white photo illustration from 15 of the films. The Ray Bradbury story is The Fog Horn a.k.a. The Beast from 20000 Fathoms for the 1953 Ray Harryhausen film. The Robert Bloch story is The Skull of the Marquis de Sade adapted for the 1965 Peter Cushing / Christopher Lee film The Skull. Other films / authors which include Edgar Allan Poe The Oblong Box Bram Stoker Dracula’s Daughter and The Lunatics Somerset Maugham The Magician Gaston Leroux Phantom of the Opera Ambrose Bierce Incident at Owl Creek H. P. Lovecraft Monster of Terror and others. Near fine in a very good dust with some tiny chipping and a couple of tiny tears. Stein and Day hardcover
195416148Hart-Davis 1954. 8vo. First Edition thus; red cloth backstrip lettered in silver top and fore-edges very lightly mottled else a very good bright clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY TO TIM SANDEMAN WITH THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION DATED 1954 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With the splendid pictorial bookplate of Timothy Sandeman on front paste-down. One of the great dystopian novels first published in the US in the previous year. It is the basis of Truffaut's first English-language feature film 1966 starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. PRESENTATION COPIES AS DISTINCT FROM MERELY SIGNED COPIES ARE RARE. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY Hart-Davis, hardcover