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1915118831New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers 1915. Octavo pp. 1-6 11-308 note: text complete despite gap in pagination original red cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed. First U.S. edition. The Stokes edition is printed from the plates of the UK 1914 Martin Secker edition. "A representative group of sketches and stories by this witty and prolific writer now unjustly neglected. It contains the four stories 'Detection Without Crime' . presented as 'From the Notebook of the Late Horace Fish' a retired gentleman of insatiable curiosity." - Barzun and Taylor A Catalogue of Crime 2698. Material representative of Pain's comical style without any supernatural or fantasy elements. Queen The Detective Short Story p. 84. Hubin 1994 p. 624. NCBEL IV 698. A bright near fine copy. #118831 Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers unknown books
1928118832London Bombay Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1928. Small octavo pp. 1-4 5-7 8 9-254 255 256: blank original maroon cloth spine panel stamped in gold top edge stained brown. First edition. "Pain's last original collection issued posthumously. Thirteen stories. Several good pieces including 'The Tree of Death' Oriental fable of arboreal vampire; 'The Reaction' a drug induces visions of ecstasy and horror; 'Not on the Passenger-List' oft-reprinted nautical ghost story." - Robert Knowlton. With a short but insightful preface by series editor F. H. Pritchard. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-156. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1286. Tymn ed Horror Literature 3-193. See Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV pp. 1662-4. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 401. Bleiler 1978 p. 153. NCBEL IV 697. A fine copy in fine decorated dust jacket. #118832 George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. unknown books
200616340EThe Netherlands: Springer 2006. Hardcover. 357 pages. Brand new unread copy. Springer hardcover books
186856794New York: William Wood & Co. Publishers 1868. First Edition. Illustrated. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown flexible cloth boards. Spine chipped else Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. William Wood & Co., Publishers unknown books
19359068Privately printed 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Light water damage to cover touch of foxing boards minutely warped else tight bright and unmarred. Orange boards and navy blue binders tape. 8vo. 43pp 6 leaves of plates. Illus. mono-prints <br/><br/>Limited and privately printed edition of one thousand copies for sale only to adult collectors of curiousa and students of psychology. Illustrated in color with bright color block mono printing. Scarce and out-of-print limited edition novel for those engaged and otherwise interested in sadomasochistic fantasy and/or communities. [Privately printed] hardcover books
1901156813London: Grant Richards 1901. Small octavo pp. 1-6 7-191 192 original pictorial yellow cloth front cover printed in red and black spine panel printed in black. First edition. In addition to the rare large paper limited issue of 250 copies signed by Pain there were two issues of the trade copies some bound in pictorial yellow cloth and the others bound in pictorial wrappers in shilling shocker format this being one of the hardbound copies. This is Pain's core collection of horror fiction supernatural and psychological including classic "The Moon-Slave" woman seduced by the Great God Pan "The Gray Cat" a loathsome familiar and "The Undying Thing" a Gothic extravaganza featuring a deathless subterranean werewolf. Impressive range of themes and moods stylish treatment. See Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature Iv pp. 1662-64. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-156. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1278. Clute and Grant eds The Encyclopedia of Fantasy 1997 p. 742. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II p. 88. Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 317. Tymn ed Horror Literature 3-196. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 400. Bleiler 1978 p. 153. Reginald 11123. Hubin 1994 p. 624. NCBEL IV 698. Cloth a bit dusty and soiled tiny stain on rear cover black background on front panel rubbed a very good copy. Overall a nice copy of a book seldom found in decent condition due to the fragile nature of the binding. #156813 Grant Richards unknown books
179731611London: I. and J. Taylor 1797. Folio pp. iv 16 4 ads; 42 copper-engraved plates; last leaf of ads loose and with tears in the gutter causing loss of some letters; plates 39 and 40 with tears in the upper corner with minor loss to one figure; text and plates waterstained along the lower gutter scattered foxing; full contemporary calf covers loose spine partially perished; a fair copy. OCLC locates only 9 copies. <br/><br/> I. and J. Taylor unknown books
6877148 engraved plates several double-page and one double-page & folding. 3 p.l. 15 leaves of explanatory text. 4to cont. marbled sheep joints well-repaired flat spine gilt. London: J. Taylor 1823. The "Ninth Edition" and a fine copy. The first edition appeared in 1788. Pain "was constantly in print either with a new book - he published eleven between 1758 and 1793 - or with a revised enlarged edition of an earlier one. In America the demand for his books exceeded that of any other eighteenth-century English author. "Intending 'plainly and faithfully to answer the purpose of the manual artificer' he pared his text to essential instructions and wherever possible engraved these on the plates themselves for the convenience of working users. The plates are the raison d'être of his books. They are clear unpretentious undeceptive outline representations of whole parts.and of details in a scale large enough to work from."-Harris pp. 338-39. Scarce. The plates are numbered 1-146 with the additional "Back Plate 3" and "Face Plate 65." ❧ Harris 660. unknown books
687683 engraved plates. 5 1 pp. 4 leaves of explanatory text one leaf of ads at end an Isaac Taylor catalogue. Large 4to cont. speckled calf carefully rebacked by Aquarius double gilt fillet round sides spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. London: I. Taylor 1774. First edition and a fine copy with the "Schlossbibliothek Dessau" stamp on verso of title. This was one of the most successful and influential of the 18th-century architectural pattern books and was extremely successful in popularizing the Adam style of ornamentation. This is the first of Pain's books to express the influence of Robert Adam. Pain "was constantly in print either with a new book - he published eleven between 1758 and 1793 - or with a revised enlarged edition of an earlier one. In America the demand for his books exceeded that of any other eighteenth-century English author. "Intending 'plainly and faithfully to answer the purpose of the manual artificer' he pared his text to essential instructions and wherever possible engraved these on the plates themselves for the convenience of working users. The plates are the raison d'être of his books. They are clear unpretentious undeceptive outline representations of whole parts.and of details in a scale large enough to work from."-Harris pp. 338-39. Fine copy. Some offsetting of plates and title browned around edges. ❧ Harris 640. unknown books
178317853London: Printed and sold by the author 1783. The third edition with additions by the author. 8vo pp. iv 18 100 full-page plates ii 54. Some professional marginal repairs but a very good copy bound in modern 3/4 calf with new endpapers.There are a couple of contemporary signatures on the front e.p. and there are two quatrains written on the rear e.p. Pain 1730-1790 was a writer on architecture and joinery. His first work chiefly concerned the Chippendale style. He left a number of sons mostly architects. This work is almost like a trade catalogue with detailed illustrations and a price list for work that would be done. Printed and sold by the author unknown books
1778317901London: Printed for the Author and Sold by I. Taylor at the Bible and Crown 1778. First edition. With 69 copper engraved plates two frontispieces 67 plates: numbered I to LXI with pl. XLIX omitted; with additional plates 39 and 47 and lettered plates ABCDP. Letterpress descriptive text and 2-page publisher catalogue at end. 1 vols. Folio. Contemporary speckled calf boards ruled with double gilt fillet. Finely rebacked with lettering piece in period style corners conserved. First edition. With 69 copper engraved plates two frontispieces 67 plates: numbered I to LXI with pl. XLIX omitted; with additional plates 39 and 47 and lettered plates ABCDP. Letterpress descriptive text and 2-page publisher catalogue at end. 1 vols. Folio. Superior copy of this rare work by Pain remarkable for the large format plates of designs for doorways chimneys twist rails skylights and other domestic ornament. Harris 628 Printed for the Author, and Sold by I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown unknown books
