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[SHELLEY Mary Wollstonecraft]. Tales and Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. William Paterson & Co 1891 (Treasure House of Tales series), 1891.

Price: US$122.38 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: now first collected, with an introduction by Richard Garnett, original decorated cloth, spine bumped dulled and a trifle chipped, tiny vents to hinges, corners rubbed, portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, ownership signature half-title, minor spotting, good. first edition; 386 pages

Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom

GARNETT, RICHARD [INTRODUCTION BY]. TALES AND STORIES OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY NOW FIRST COLLECTED. LONDON: WILLIAM PATERSON & CO, 1891.

Price: US$161.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo, pp, xiii, 386,tissue guarded portrait frontispiece, gilt titled blue cloth with gilt decorated top cover, uncut, early bookplate on the leading paste-down endpaper, trifle foxing, William St. Clair's copy with his signature on the half-tile and with some of his pencillings on the contents page

Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom

Shelley, Mary W[ollstonecraft]. TALES AND STORIES . Now first collected with an introduction by Richard Garnett .. William Paterson & Co., London, 1891.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xv [xvi] [1] 2-386 [387-388: ads], inserted frontispiece (portrait of the author), original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed, slate coated endpapers. First edition. Seventeen stories, some fantasy, including "Transformation" and "The Mortal Immortal," many appearing in this collection for the first time in a book. Issued as the second volume of Paterson's "Treasure House of Tales" series which is used as the binder's title. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-88. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 194. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 47. See Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1465c, d and e. See Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2021c. Bleiler (1978), p. 178. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Merest hint of rubbing to cloth at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, several tiny bits of leather adhered to rear cover (some transfer from a once adjacent leather bound volume), else a bright, near fine copy. A nice copy of a book usually found in lesser condition. (#80722)

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