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Cram, Ralph Adams. Black Spirits & White. Stone & Kimball, 1895.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Decorated cloth. 12mo. Includes six stories, postscript, and publisher catalog. Cloth cover shows wear and soiling to edges and surface. Some chips and fraying to edges and bumping to corners. Detached front endpaper. Some light water staining to rear pages. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked.

Seller: Plugged Books, Middletown, CT, U.S.A.

Cram, Ralph Adams. Black Spirits and White: a Book of Ghost Stories. Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1895.

Price: US$449.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original green/cream patterned cloth, TEG, patterned endpages. Spine toned, minor insecting to cloth. Red stain to bottom edge of front board. Corners turned. 150pp plus postscript, printing notice, and 14 pages of publisher catalog. Six tales of the supernatural. Blank endpages toned, minor pencil notation to rep. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Cram, Ralph Adams. BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1895.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-150 [151] [152: blank] [153: colophon] [154: blank] [155-170: ads] [171-172: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and black, original decorated tan cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in yellow green, gray-green endpapers with floral pattern printed in green, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. This collection of six tales of the supernatural is an American fantasy cornerstone. ". foremost for horror fans is a small collection BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE . hailed as one of the most extraordinary volumes of terror tales published. It includes his best-known story of a frightening journey through 'The Dead Valley,' which Lovecraft [in Supernatural Horror in Literature] singled out for praise." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 58. "Excellent local color; transitional between the Victorian personal ghost story and the Edwardian interest in supernatural evil." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 442. "No. 252 Rue M. le Prince" is one of the very best haunted house stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-16. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 204. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 99. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-62. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03535. Wright (III) 1245. Kramer 52. Old blue penciled price to front paste down, two former owner's signatures and addresses, one penciled, one inked, to second free end paper, corners soft, some light foxing to cover, more pronounced to spine. A very good copy. (28929)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Cram, Ralph Adams. BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1895.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-150 [151] [152: blank] [153: colophon] [154: blank] [155-170: ads] [171-172: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and black, original decorated tan cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in yellow green, gray-green endpapers with floral pattern printed in green, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. This collection of six tales of the supernatural is an American fantasy cornerstone. ". foremost for horror fans is a small collection BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE . hailed as one of the most extraordinary volumes of terror tales published. It includes his best-known story of a frightening journey through 'The Dead Valley,' which Lovecraft [in Supernatural Horror in Literature] singled out for praise." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 58. "Excellent local color; transitional between the Victorian personal ghost story and the Edwardian interest in supernatural evil." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 442. "No. 252 Rue M. le Prince" is one of the very best haunted house stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-16. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 204. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 99. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-62. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03535. Wright (III) 1245. Kramer 52. 1898 Christmas gift inscription on first blank, hint of darkening to spine panel and two very tiny water strikes to front panel, a bright, nearly fine copy. A handsome copy of this attractive little book. (#75396)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Cram, Ralph Adams. BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1895.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-150 [151] [152: blank] [153: colophon] [154: blank] [155-170: ads] [171-172: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and black, original decorated tan cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in yellow green, gray-green endpapers with floral pattern printed in green, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. This collection of six tales of the supernatural is an American fantasy cornerstone. ". foremost for horror fans is a small collection BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE . hailed as one of the most extraordinary volumes of terror tales published. It includes his best-known story of a frightening journey through 'The Dead Valley,' which Lovecraft [in Supernatural Horror in Literature] singled out for praise." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 58. "Excellent local color; transitional between the Victorian personal ghost story and the Edwardian interest in supernatural evil." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 442. "No. 252 Rue M. le Prince" is one of the very best haunted house stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-16. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 204. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 99. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-62. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03535. Wright (III) 1245. Kramer 52. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down, slight age darkening to spine panel (quite common for this book) otherwise a bright nearly fine copy. (14053)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Cram, Ralph Adams. BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1895.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: Small octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-150 [151] [152: blank] [153: colophon] [154: blank] [155-170: ads] [171-172: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and black, original decorated tan cloth, front, spine and rear panels stamped in yellow green, gray-green endpapers with floral pattern printed in green, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. This collection of six tales of the supernatural is an American fantasy cornerstone. ". foremost for horror fans is a small collection BLACK SPIRITS & WHITE . hailed as one of the most extraordinary volumes of terror tales published. It includes his best-known story of a frightening journey through 'The Dead Valley,' which Lovecraft [in Supernatural Horror in Literature] singled out for praise." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 58. "Excellent local color; transitional between the Victorian personal ghost story and the Edwardian interest in supernatural evil." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 442. "No. 252 Rue M. le Prince" is one of the very best haunted house stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-16. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 204. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 99. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-62. Bleiler (1978), p. 52. Reginald 03535. Wright (III) 1245. Kramer 52. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, slight age-darkening to spine panel (quite common for this book), else a bright, nearly fine copy. (#136636)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.