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1943086464London: Hammond Hammond & Company Ltd. 1943. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Leslie S. Haywood. First edition second printing Quarto hardback Turquoise illustrated boards 48 pp Colour illustrations and end paper Good condition Corners worn and edges rubbed. No inscriptions. Very Scarce <br/> <br/> Hammond, Hammond & Company, Ltd. hardcover
18974343Chicago: M. R. Kent 1897. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 132 pages flexible reddish-brown cloth rear cover creased; bookplate partially unopened <br/><br/>These lectures were delivered at Chicago November 28-30 1896 but were thoroughly revised and much enlarged for print. Bjerregaard became chief of the reading room of the New York Public Library. M. R. Kent hardcover
19319829London: Simpkin Marshall Ltd 1931. First edition. Hardcover in pictorial paper boards 104pp. Spine toned few stray spots to boards clean internally. Very good or better. <br /> <br /> Sharp first printing of this collection of traditional ghost stories based on regional legends. Some of the stories are quite grim and a few rather bloody. Woodiwiss was a British author and art historian who also wrote in the crime and mystery genres. A scarce and attractive book. Simpkin, Marshall, Ltd hardcover
19411765London: John Murray 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Very nice first edition of this scarce short story collection which includes several supernatural tales. Yellow boards show light soiling. Jacket has mild tanning to spine and some shallow chipping to head of spine. John Murray hardcover
19067776London: Macmillan and Co.; William Blackwood and Sons 1906. Reprints. 9 volumes 8vos various paginations uniformly bound in 1/2 green polished calf over green cloth boards red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt t.e.g. Bookplate of H.P. Lazenby in front of each spines heavily toned and rubbed at joints and corners. All clean and sound internally and very good. <br /> <br /> An attractively bound set of novels from the prolific American writer who spent much of his life in Italy and India. This set includes The Witch of Prague which Bleiler describes in his Guide to Supernatural Fiction as "a long occult romance with semiallegorical elements" which tells the tale of a wanderer who is bewitched by a clairvoyant and hypnotic young woman while searching for his lost lover. <br /> <br /> <br /> Other titles in this set are: The Three Fates; Taquisara; A Tale of a Lonely Parish; Zoroaster; Corleone; The Three Fates; Saracinesca; Doctor Claudius; and The Heart of Rome.<br /> <br /> . Macmillan and Co.; William Blackwood and Sons unknown