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Hodgson, William Hope. CARNACKI THE GHOST-FINDER. Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City Wisconsin, 1947.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

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Seller: Reed Books The Museum of Fond Memories, Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. CARNACKI, The Ghost-Finder. Mycroft and Moran: Sauk City, WI, 1947.

Price: US$57.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 7.5 x 5", gilt-lettered and gilt-dec black cloth, 241pp, extremities bumped and worn, former owner's ink name on front fly, pp toned (especially endpapers) else a pretty good copy I a toned, edge-worn dustjacket. Limited to 2000 copies. August Derleth, Publisher.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

HODGSON, William Hope.. Carnacki, The Ghost-Finder.. Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: 241 [1] pp. Small 8vo, publisher's black cloth in dust jacket. Some shelf wear and light use to cloth; but a tight, sound copy in a jacket with a 5" tear to the front panel and other smaller tears, small chips, and numerous tape repairs to verso.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Mycroft & Moran (Arkham House), Sauk City, 1947.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Description: Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran (Arkham House):, 1947. First American edition, Hardcover, Very Good in Good dust jacket, 241 pp. Cover artwork by: Frank Utpatel Clean, straight and tight. Endpapers and paste-downs lightly toned at gutters. Jacket with one-quarter inch chips to tips of front panel and spine panel with one-quarter inch chips at head and foot. A very respectable copy. First American edition, Hardcover, Very Good in Good dust jacket,

Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER. Mycroft & Moran, 1947.

Price: US$87.00 + shipping

Description: CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER, Mycroft & Moran, 1947, first edition, upper corner tips gently bumped, else a bright vg+ copy in g/vg pictorial dust-wrapper with two long closed tears to the front dust-wrapper panel, one long closed tear to the lower rear flap fold and chipping to the spine extremeties. Collects the 6 stories in the earlier English edition and adds 3 others in book form for the first time. 1/3,000 copies

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. Carnacki The Ghost - Finder. Mycroft & Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1947 First American Edition in VG condition in Brodarted DJ in Fair condition with chips along edges. DJ is not price clipped. Book has black cloth binding with gilt lettering and design on backstrip. The previous owner's name and address is stamped on FFEP at top in small letters. The end papers show discoloration with age. Otherwise, the interior is clean and unmarked. The binding is square and tight. The DJ is the work of the Wisconsin artist Frank Utpatel.

Seller: Ariel's Book Nook, Pensacola, FL, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER. Mycroft & Moran, 1947.

Price: US$116.00 + shipping

Description: CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER, Mycroft & Moran, 1947, first edition, upper corner tips gently bumped, else a bright vg+ or better copy in just about vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Collects the 6 stories in the earlier English edition and adds 3 others in book form for the first time.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Hodgson William Hope. CARNACKI THE GHOST-FINDER. Mycroft & Moran, 1947.

Price: US$116.28 + shipping

Description: very good hardcover copy in a very good, Frank Utpatel, dustwrapper, some light chipping to edges, pareticularly to the head of the spine/front cover hinge 1st edition. This edition, using Arkham House's mystery imprint, adds three stories to the contents of the original edition (Nash, 1913) published in the U.K.

Seller: Fantastic Literature Limited, Rayleigh, ESSEX, United Kingdom

Hodgson, William Hope [1877-1918]. Carnacki The Ghost Finder. Mycroft and Morgan, Sauk City, Wisconsin First Edition . 1947., 1947.

Price: US$123.56 + shipping

Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 241 pp. 1 of 3000 copies. Slight age darkening to page edges. Near Fine in Very Good Frank Utpatel designed dust wrapper with age darkening to spine and lower panel, tiny rubs to spine tips and corners, not price clipped $3.00. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Hodgson, William Hope. Carnacki: The Ghost-Finder. Mycroft and Moran, 1947.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: From an edition of 3,000 copies. Black cloth with gilt spine titles and decoration, very good with light rubbing edgewear, faint staining along bottom edges, bumped spine tips. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket toned, edgeworn, with minor chipping to corners, and light scuffing to rear fore-edge. DJ protected in Mylar. Cover price $3.00. Interior clean, text unmarked.

Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. Mycroft & Moran, 1947.

Price: US$126.74 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Mycroft & Moran January 1947 Binding: Hardcover

Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. Carnacki: The Ghost-Finder. Limited Edition 1/3000 copies.. Mycroft & Moran Sauk City 1947, Sauk City, 1947.

Price: US$135.00 + shipping

Description: Dustjacket, slight sp fade, inkname ow VG/G

Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

William Hope Hodgson. Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson (First Edition). Mycroft & Moran (M&M), Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1947.

Price: US$145.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson (First Edition) A firm square copy with bright spine gilt. Faint spotting to textblock top edge, minor offset tanning to endpapers. Sunning to the jacket spine and flap edges, spots of toning to flap-folds. Not price-clipped, original $3.00 price intact on flap. Clear protective cover. 3000 copies, stated. First American edition, with three more stories than the first edition published in 1913. Nine psychic detective stories. Black cloth, stamped gilt. Pictorial dust jacket. 241 pp.

Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER. Mycroft & Moran, 1947.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Adds three stories not included in the 1913 Eveleigh Nash edition. Slight overall tanning to dj. Few fingermarks to book o/w nice.

Seller: Tim's Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

HODGSON, William Hope. Carnacki The Ghost Finder. Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City, 1947.

Price: US$195.10 + shipping

Description: Small 8vo, pp. 241. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Very light offsetting to endpapers, but a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, a little wear to folds and sine ends. First US edition. One of 3000 copies. Six of these stories were first published in the magazine The Idler, then in book form in 1913 by Eveleigh Nash in London. This, the first US edition, adds the other three Carnacki stories to that original collection -- making it the first complete Carnacki collection in book form. It was issued by August Derleth, co-founder in 1939 of the Arkham House imprint, home to a host of twentieth century weird fiction from H.P. Lovecraft and Arthur Machen, through to Ray Bradbury and Robert Psycho Bloch. (Derleth's own, unfinished, final book was published on paper pulped from the clothes he was wearing when he died.) Not an uncommon book, but a superior copy.

Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

William Hope Hodgson. Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Mycroft and Moran, 1947.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: later edition in very good dj.

Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada

HODGSON, William Hope. Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City, 1947.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First American edition, with three additional stories not found in the 1913 British edition. Tiny name stamp on bottom page edge, and a small, very faint name and date stamp on the title page, else a fine copy in fine, fresh and bright dustwrapper with a tiny tear, a little rubbing, and very faint age-toning. A lovely copy.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

William Hope Hodgson. Carnacki the Ghost - Finder. Mycroft and Moran, Wisconsin, 1947.

Price: US$650.34 + shipping

Description: This the First Edition of This Edition. Carnacki the Ghost Finder, a collection originally serialized in The Idler.This Copy is SIGNED by the Author Margery Lawrence , it was her personal copy and she was a life long fan of all things occult. Her signature makes an already RARE book UNIQUE.241pp You could also call it "Ripping Ghost Stories" for the enthusiasm and purple-tinged prose. It's a quick read. But I guarantee that, with Carnacki, you will encounter things that you will never forget. When Hodgson is good, he's unbeatable. The world in which Carnacki plies his trade as a ghost hunter and debunker (for some of the hauntings are hoaxes, for profit or revenge) shares with Lovecraft's the "suggestion of lurking worlds and beings behind the ordinary surface of life." But Lovecraft's horror is that of the completely other, so alien that it is virtually impossible for matter to mediate it in any way a human being can comprehend. Hodgson's other, alien as it is, manifests in more comprehensible ways; in the case of The Whistling Room, as a kind of "spiritual fungus" rotting a human soul, of which nothing remains but the desire for revenge. Or, in The Hog, another story in the collection, as the grunting of pigs, which Hodgson transforms into an unforgettable evocation of bestial malevolence that recalls, in its mindlessness, the horrid emptiness of the possessed physicist Weston in C.S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet. But for me, at least, that the horror is less alien in no way diminishes its power. More problematic for many readers, I suspect, might be the cumulative nature of the narrative. The horror manifests itself less in a pounding pulse than in the persistent and growing strength of the images after you lay the story down. In this sense, Hodgson brings to mind the gourmet Brillat-Savarin's distinction between eating and enjoying one's dinner. I last read Carnacki perhaps 20 years ago, but enjoyed it for years afterwards when something would evoke a vivid image from it. So when the call went out for Halloween posts, it was the first book I thought of. But, as I said, his prose may not be to your taste. Here's a sample, from The Whistling Room. Carnacki was investigating a haunting that manifested as a whistling, and is relating to his friend what happened when he first entered the room that is the focus of the manifestation. "When I reached the door, and put my hand into my pocket for the key, I had a sudden feeling of sickening funk. But I was not going to back out, if I could help it. I unlocked the door and turned the handle. Then I gave the door a sharp push with my foot, as Tassoc had done, and drew my revolver, though I did not expect to have any use for it, really. "I shone the searchlight all round the room, and then stepped inside, with a disgustingly horrible feeling of walking slap into a waiting Danger. I stood a few seconds, waiting, and nothing happened, and the empty room showed bare from corner to corner. And then, you know, I realised that the room was full of an abominable silence; can you understand that? A sort of purposeful silence, just as sickening as any of the filthy noises the Things have power to make. Do you remember what I told you about that 'Silent Garden' business? Well, this room had just that same malevolent silence—the beastly quietness of a thing that is looking at you and not seeable itself, and thinks that it has got you. Oh, I recognised it instantly, and I whipped the top off my lantern, so as to have light over the whole room. "Then I set-to, working like fury, and keeping my glance all about me. I sealed the two windows with lengths of human hair, right across, and sealed them at every frame. As I worked, a queer, scarcely perceptible tenseness stole into the air of the place, and the silence seemed, if you can understand me, to grow more solid. I knew then that I had no business there without 'full protection'; for I was practically certain that this was no mere Aeiirii deve

Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom