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Hanley, James. MEN IN DARKNESS: FIVE STORIES. John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. (1931), London, 1931.

Price: US$31.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 323 pages, 7 1/2" x 5", black cloth with gilt printing to the spine. Slight bump down the middle of the spine, spine ends and corners are scuffed and rubbed. Previous owner signed the front endpages and the title page. The covers are just slightly scuffed, otherwise contents are complete and nice. Near Very Good.

Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.

Hanley, James. Men in Darkness: Five Stories. John Lane The Bodley Head LTD., London, 1931.

Price: US$38.71 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition. Preface by John Cowper Powys. VG+. Hardcover; black cloth; no jacket; 323 pp.; red topstain slightly faded; slight rubbing to the cloth and edges, else a clean, tight, very good or better copy. Protected in mylar.

Seller: Tornbooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

HANLEY,, James.. MEN IN DARKNESS. With a Preface by John Cowper Powys.. London, John Lane The Bodley Head 1931., 1931.

Price: US$73.91 + shipping

Description: xiv+322pp. 8vo. Original cloth in chipped dustwrapper with piece missing from upper backstrip affecting some text. Light foxing to edges. Stamp on ffe. A very good copy. First edition.

Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia

Hanley, James. Men in Darkness. Bodley Head, 1931.

Price: US$78.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Edition limited to 150 numbered copies.Smaller version of dust jacket tipped-in by publisher. Couple corners lightly bumped. Single library bookplate to front paste down, with no other markings.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Hanley, James. Men in Darkness. Bodley Head, 1931.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Tiny chip to the top of jacket, and one at the spine base measuring roughly one inch by one inch at its widest. The tear extends slightly around to the front of the jacket; an extremely arresting drawing by Alan Odle. The first British edition, published by the Bodley Head in 1931. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

HANLEY, James. Preface by John Cowper Powys.. MEN IN DARKNESS. Five Stories.. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1931., 1931.

Price: US$123.46 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,323, black cloth, gilt, top edges red; foxing to fore-edges, slight toning and foxing to free endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has 1.5cm closed tear to rear upper edge, small closed tear and creasing to foot of front flap-fold, and very slight chipping to extremities, now in a protective cover and o/w very good.

Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom

HANLEY, James.. Men in Darkness: Five Stories.. London, John Lane The Bodley Head [1931]., 1931.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition (so stated). 8vo. Preface by John Cowper Powys. Jacket illustration by Alan Odle. Original gilt stamped black cloth, top edge stained red. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks, 2 short tears). Very good. No signatures or bookplates.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

HANLEY, James with a preface by John Cowper Powys:. Men in Darkness;. Bodley Head, 1931.

Price: US$142.95 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 324 pages, 185 x 200mm; black cloth dustrapper by Alan ODLE (chipped at head of spine just affecting the word Men, and small chip at base of spine); (with PICTURE)

Seller: BOOKS & THINGS, STROUD, United Kingdom

HANLEY, James.. MEN IN DARKNESS. Five Stories.. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1931. First edition. Limited edition of 105 copies. This was the author's copy, signed by the author and with a presentation inscription on ffep., 1931.

Price: US$167.97 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 323pp. A very good hardback copy in papered boards and cloth spine. Boards have bumped and slightly frayed corners. Fore edges are tanned and slightly foxed. A light offsetting to endpapers.

Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia