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William Hope Hodgson. The Ghost Pirates.. Stanley Paul & Co., 1909.

Price: US$422.35 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: An original first edition copy of a landmark work rebound by Everybody's Books, Charing Cross Road, London. Stiff printed card covers with author and title stencilled to the upper cover and spine. In very good shape. Just toned and rubbed. Contents tight and clean. No pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Size: 180mm x 121mm. Pages: 276. Lacks frontispiece and the publisher's rear adverts. Otherwise complete and very presentable. Everybody's Books bought in old books and had them inexpensively rebound. These books were then rebranded as their own and sold in their Charing Cross Road shop. Accordingly, this is one such copy of what are now rare items in their own right. Thus a scarce first edition of a landmark work in a later binding now offered for sale at a reasonable price.

Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

William Hope Hodgson. The Ghost Pirates. Stanley Paul, London, 1909.

Price: US$649.77 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 276 pages, with appendix catalogue in the back and b/w frontis done by Sidney H Thime. Original red cloth binding with gilt title. Spine is sunned. Marks to board edges. Minor marks to page edges. Bumping to spine ends & edges. PO inscription to fep (Jan 1909). Internally very clean bright & tight.

Seller: Cotswold Rare Books, OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom

Hodgson (William Hope). The Ghost Pirates. Stanley Paul, London, 1909.

Price: US$1624.43 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 8vo. Original (variant) blue cloth. Internally good, this copy without adverts; covers with edge wear, damage to head of spine, spine slightly dulled and scratched. Frontispiece by Sidney H. Sime. A key work in Hope Hodgson's canon, here in a seemingly unknown variant binding (the normal is red cloth, with green also being recorded). The tale recounts a ship crew's strange & terrifying experience as their reality comes into contact with an alternative, darker mirror world. Bleiler was a huge fan of Hope Hodgson, calling his novels "visionary accounts that have no real parallels in English literature". Of this particular title he noted: "One of the great sea novels. highly original in detail and well done. Although it is overshadowed as visionary horror by the more spectacular The House on the Borderland and The Night Land, as a work of art, it is finer." (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction). A revised version of the ending was anthologised, under the title "The Silent Ship". Bleiler

Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom

Hodgson, William Hope. The Ghost Pirates. Stanley Paul &Co, 1909.

Price: US$1900.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, with 1909 on title and copyright page. Book missing frontispiece. With 12 pages of ads in rear. Book very good, some rubbing along edges, former owner's inscription on front free end paper. some foxing to page edges and half-title page, toning to half-title page.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

William Hope Hodgson. The Ghost Pirates. Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1909.

Price: US$2200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition in publisher's red cloth and gilt lettered spine and cover. Frontispiece by Sidney H. Sime. London: Stanley Paul & Co. (1909), 276 pages + 12 pages of ads at rear. A good copy of this uncommon title. Overall wear with soft spine ends, bumped corners. Nice new endpapers, some foxing to first few pages.

Seller: SF & F Books, Chester, VA, U.S.A.

Hodgson, William Hope. THE GHOST PIRATES .. Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1909.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-276 + 12 pages of publisher's ads at rear, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Sidney H. Sime, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold with blind stamped border, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Probable first binding of red cloth with lettering in gold on front and spine panels. "A ship bearing a mysterious curse slips into a hinterland between parallel worlds, where it becomes vulnerable to assault by bestial creatures from the other universe. Credibility is assured by virtue of the author's long experience at sea, and the suspense is handled with great skill. Though far less striking in its imagery than THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND (1908), it is superior in terms of its internal coherency, and is one of the great weird novels." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-91. "Vivid, filled with the minutiae of a sailing vessel, this is one of the great sea novels. While in a sense it is derivative from THE INHERITORS by Conrad and Hueffer, it is highly original in detail and well done. Although it is overshadowed as visionary horror by the more spectacular THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND and THE NIGHT LAND, as a work of art, it is finer." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 816. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 94-5. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 424. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 114. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 203-04. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 601-04. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-105. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 101. Reginald 7282. Cloth rubbed at extremities, spine panel just a bit darkened, endpapers tanned with offset from endpapers on first and last leaves, hairline crack along inner front hinge which is still holding tight, a good or better copy. A quite presentable copy of an elusive book rarely found in superior condition. (#161229)

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

Hodgson, William Hope. THE GHOST PIRATES .. Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1909.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-276 + 12 pages of publisher's ads at rear, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Sidney H. Sime, original green cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Copies in this green cloth binding were probably issued after those bound in red cloth. "A ship bearing a mysterious curse slips into a hinterland between parallel worlds, where it becomes vulnerable to assault by bestial creatures from the other universe. Credibility is assured by virtue of the author's long experience at sea, and the suspense is handled with great skill. Though far less striking in its imagery than THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND (1908), it is superior in terms of its internal coherency, and is one of the great weird novels." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-91. "Vivid, filled with the minutiae of a sailing vessel, this is one of the great sea novels. While in a sense it is derivative from THE INHERITORS by Conrad and Hueffer, it is highly original in detail and well done. Although it is overshadowed as visionary horror by the more spectacular THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND and THE NIGHT LAND, as a work of art, it is finer." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 816. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 94-5. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 424. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 114. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 203-04. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 601-04. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-105. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 101. Reginald 7282. Considerable foxing to half title and title leaves and the frontispiece between them, a very good copy with clean binding and bright gold lettering on the spine panel. A pretty nice copy overall. (#165544)

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

William Hope Hodgson. The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson (First edition). Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd, London and Boston, 1909.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson (First edition) Firm square copy with bright gilt, corners bumped and darkened top edge.small paper remnant to both pastedowns, ffe surface Original red cloth, spine and cover lettered gilt. 12-page catalogue at rear. Frontispiece illustration by Sidney H. Sime. ""One of the great sea novels. highly original in detail and well done. Although it is overshadowed as visionary horror by the more spectacular THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND and THE NIGHT LAND, as a work of art, it is finer."" - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction.

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

Hodgson (William Hope). The Ghost Pirates. Stanley Paul, London, 1909.

Price: US$3508.77 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 8vo. Advertisements. Original green cloth. Contemporary ink name to front pastedown, an excellent copy. Frontispiece by Sidney H. Sime. A superb first edition of this key work in Hope Hodgson's canon, here in the seemingly less common green cloth, as opposed to red (no priority being definitively established). The tale recounts a ship crew's strange & terrifying experience as their reality comes into contact with an alternative, darker mirror world. Bleiler was a huge fan of Hope Hodgson, calling his novels "visionary accounts that have no real parallels in English literature". Of this particular title he noted: "One of the great sea novels. highly original in detail and well done. Although it is overshadowed as visionary horror by the more spectacular The House on the Borderland and The Night Land, as a work of art, it is finer." (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction). A revised version of the ending was anthologised, under the title "The Silent Ship".

Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom

Hodgson, William Hope. THE GHOST PIRATES .. Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1909.

Price: US$9500.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-276 + 12 pages of publisher's ads at rear, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Sidney H. Sime, original green cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. Inscribed and signed by Hodgson (as "Hope") and dated 1912 on the front free endpaper. Copies in this green cloth binding were probably issued after those bound in red cloth. "A ship bearing a mysterious curse slips into a hinterland between parallel worlds, where it becomes vulnerable to assault by bestial creatures from the other universe. Credibility is assured by virtue of the author's long experience at sea, and the suspense is handled with great skill. Though far less striking in its imagery than THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND (1908), it is superior in terms of its internal coherency, and is one of the great weird novels." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-91. "Vivid, filled with the minutiae of a sailing vessel, this is one of the great sea novels. While in a sense it is derivative from THE INHERITORS by Conrad and Hueffer, it is highly original in detail and well done. Although it is overshadowed as visionary horror by the more spectacular THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND and THE NIGHT LAND, as a work of art, it is finer." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 816. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 94-5. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 424. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 114. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 203-04. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 601-04. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-105. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 101. Reginald 7282. Corner tips and spine ends soft, some patchy fade to green cloth (which is not unusual), still a bright very good to nearly fine copy. (28550)

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