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191413697STORIES WITHOUT TEARS Frederick A. Stokes 1914 first American edition a tight vg or better copy in near vg dust-wrapper save for three thumbnail size chips and other light wear. This short story collection is quite uncommon in dust-wrapper. Stokes unknown
1990ZB389963Raven Press 1990-98. volumes 6-7 10-14; complete volumes partly bound ex library very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Raven Press unknown
1911HDA19NY: Frederick A. Stokes 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 1st American printing from UK sheets 1911. Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine; 320pp. "Arguably Pain best short story collection. The work includes several imaginative & sophisticated macabre tales." Wilson Shadows in the Attic p.401. Gilt lettering on spine faded but legible; gilt lettering on cover bright; top edge dust-soiled; mild tanning; else nice. Frederick A. Stokes Hardcover
19209354C1920. ca. 1920-1980. verschiedene Formate. Typoskriptdrucke Privatdrucke in einfachen Pappbänden kartonierten Bänden oder losen Blättern. 1 Manuskript lose Blätter. Normale Gebrauchsspuren insgesamt gut erhalten. Das Konvolut enthält folgende Texte: Erinnerungen eines Lebemannes 2. und 3. Teil gebunden 2 Bände je ca. 300 S. mit montierten Fotos / Kühne Liebe. Eine wahre Erzählung einer Tochter einer Fürstin und Zigeuners. Zweiter Band gebunden 32 S. in zwei Exemplaren / Madame Evs' Schule. Band 2 gebunden ca. 200 S. mit montierten Fotos / Die Philantropin. II. Band gebunden 63 S. / Albert Pawil: Die Lasterbrücke oder die nackte Frau in Ost und West. 2. Band gebunden 109 S. / John Pain: Schloss Minnebirk. Erotisch-sadistische Erzählung. 2. Band gebunden 106 S. / Unbetitelter Typoskriptdruck Band II und IV. Kapitelüberschriften: "Komtess Ilse" und "Elfriede" gebunden 2 Bände je ca. 40 S. / Die Ballade von der Frau Agnes lose Blätter ca. 20 S. / Jungfer Donna Blanca und ihr Ritter u.a. geheftet 4 Blatt / Vera lose Blätter ca. 40 S. / Die Erlebnisse einer 17jährigen Pariserin u.a. lose Blätter ca. 10 S. Die Texte stammen aus dem Nachlaß eines Sammlers aus einer Hand. Sie liegen sämtlich als Typoskriptdruck Privatdrucke vor. Die Texte reichen wohl von den 1920er Jahren bis in die 1960er Jahre. In einigen Bänden wurden zahlreiche einschlägige Fotografien montiert siehe obige Hinweise. Vorhanden ist darüber hinaus ein handschriftliches Manuskript ähnlichen Inhalts von 12 Seiten Umfang. Es liegen weiterhin einzelne gedruckte Publikationen vor wie etwa "Muscle Man in Silks. A Story of Transvetism" diese werden beigegeben. Die Sammlung enthält zudem zwei Alben mit zahlreichen erotisch-sadistischen Darstellungen. Eine letzte Komponente des Konvoluts besteht aus insgesamt vier beigegebenen 8mm-Filmrollen welche jeweils mit einer Fotografie beklebt wurden. Diese tragen die Titel: "Tempter with Movies" "Nightspot" "Hotel" "Pussy Club". Erotika-Konvolut aus einer wohl aus den Nachkriegsjahrzehnten stammenden Sammlung! unknown
1901014681London: Grant Richards 1901. First edition. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Front hinge shaken light rub and soil to cover. Former owner name and date to endpaper. A collection of tales including some supernatural. <br/> <br/> Grant Richards hardcover
191110230London: T. Werner Laurie. London T. Werner Laurie 1911. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy no jacket. An early horror collection gathering 15 stories. Boards a touch rubbed and marked. Spine tips soft and bumped. Internally very neat - ominous blank plate to the front pastedown with a an ink stamped price. A little spotted to the foreedge. Owner's inscription to the endpaper. 10230 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1911. T. Werner Laurie hardcover
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
190171389London:: Holden & Hardingham Ltd. no date 1901. Later edition. publisher's blue-green boards stamped in black in pictorial dust jacket. Slight cracking to the rear inner hinge; else a bright fresh unworn copy. The dust jacket has some chipping at the extremities of the spine and the top of the back panel not affecting the design or lettering. A very nice example of an uncommon book in dust jacket. 12mo. Holden & Hardingham Ltd., hardcover
1923001806Paris Lucien Gougy 1923
191115109London: T. Werner Laurie 1911. First edition. Two small ink stamps to front paste down former owner's name to front free endpaper some general rubbing to cloth especially to edges a very good copy. Scarce. 15109. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-320 first leaf blank except for small a on recto a-g h: ads title page printed in blue and black original blue-green cloth front panel stamped in black spine panel stamped in gold publishers monogram on rear panel stamped in black "Mixed collection including excellent weirds 'Smeath' 'Rose Rose' 'The Doll' and 'Linda.' One of Pain's best collections from the standpoint of horror fiction; literate ironic and vividly nasty in an understated manner." - Robert Knowlton. "The best of Pain's horror fiction." - Sullivan ed The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 317. Reference: Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1282. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 401. Bleiler 1978 p. 153. Hubin 1994 p. 624. NCBEL IV 698. T. Werner Laurie unknown
1911BB1573London: T. Werner Laurie 1911. First Edition. Cloth. Fine-. An exemplary example of "Pain's best general short story collection." Wilson 8vo: 832010 advertisementspp. Publisher's sea green textured cloth front and back covers stamped in black spine lettered in gilt title page with vignette printed in blue and black. Light spotting to preliminary pages and fore- and bottom edges dust-soiled top edge else a tight bright fresh copy about Fine. Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural p. 317. Bleiler Checklist p. 153. Bleiler Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1282. Wilson Shadows in the Attic p. 401. Clute and Grant p. 742. First Edition of the collection of ghost stories widely considered Pain's best. Included are: "'Smeath' which combines physical horror with the supernatural tells of a clairvoyant murderer. . . . 'Rose Rose' is based on artistic Bohemia. Rose is so conscientious as a model that after she dies leaving the picture for which she was posing unfinished she returns to pose. . . . 'Linda' is a fine story of the purportedly supernatural probably to be explained by madness. To save Linda from Hell because she is a witch her brother murders her." Penguin Encyclopedia N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. T. Werner Laurie unknown
1944058006New York 1945: Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo 1944. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Very Good. B/W Photographs and Color Plates. Large size program inscribed by Frederic Franklin over a full page photograph in mid-step; Nathalie Krassovska over a full page photograph while en point; Leon Danielian over a full-page photograph in mid-leap; Ruthanna Boris Yurek Lazowski Dorothy Etheridge Maria Tallchief Mary Ellen Moylan over their own full page individual photographs; Michel Katcharoff; Nicholas Magallanes; and on a page with Ballanchine at center and Nijinska Fokine Schwezoff and Agnes Demille at corners by George Balanchine as "G. Balanchine". <br/> <br/> Ballet Russe De Monte Carlo unknown