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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Square octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-123 [124: printer's imprint], six full-page illustrations by Laurence Housman [note: frontispiece is inserted, other full-page illustrations are integral within respective gatherings], title page printed in orange, Japanese silk-like brown cloth, front cover stamped in gold and light brown, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition, first binding, variant without 16-page John Lane catalogue inserted at rear. "An excellent story." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-42. "One of the best werewolf stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 848. ". a minor classic in the genre." - Basil Copper, The Werewolf ., pp. 179-80. ". attains a high degree of gruesome tension and achieves to some extent the atmosphere of authentic folklore." - H. P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 79. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 211. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-111. Bleiler (1978), p. 103. Reginald 07451. Spine ends lightly worn, the usual sunning to cloth, inner rear hinge cracked, a good, about average copy of this book. (#156219)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large squarish 8vo; (10), 124 plus 16 pages of ads at the end dated 1895 for Bodley Head titles. Bound in pinkish-tan / light rose satin grain cloth; gilt title, author, publisher and pomegranate device on spine; gilt title and author on front cover, and with pomegranate devices printed in light yellow (almost invisible) on the four corners. All edges untrimmed. Some very slight bubbling and fading to covers, but a very nice copy of this fragile volume. First edition, with cover design, title page (printed in orange), and six full page plates by Laurence, each with a guard leaf printing the plate's title. There were two variant bindings of the English edition of The Were-Wolf. This one, and one in sage green with the pomegranate devices blocked in blue. Copies in the pinkish binding have a Japan vellum paper guard inserted between the frontispiece and the title page; the green copies have a wove paper guard, and often lack the ads at the end. Some copies appear - trimmed, and bound in dark brown vertically ribbed cloth, stamped in black. These are the copies offered by the firm of Way & Williams in Chicago. Both Krishnamutri and Ian Hodgkins state that the entire edition consisted of 1000 copies. A classic of English Eighteen-nineties design, text and illustration. Clemence's first novel, described variously as an allegorical erotic fantasy, a Christian allegory, and a tale promoting women's rights, women's suffrage and the 'New Woman'. References: NBL Housman exhibition, #251; Warrack & Perkins 1978 Housman Catalogue, #532; Krishnamutri, #332; Kraus, Way & Williams #15; Engen, Laurence Housman, pages 57-59, 153; Bleiler 848.
Seller: Richard Cady Rare Books, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$705.47 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 123; [1]; 16. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Title page lettered in orange, with 6 full page illustrations. This copy is inscribed: 'Mary B. Housman' to front free leaf in black ink. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, sunning and discolouration to publisher's cloth, wearing to gilt. Very good. Clemence Annie Housman was an author, illustrator and activist in the women's suffrage movement. 'The Were-Wolf', an extended prose poem, follows the story of two brothers disagreeing over a Femme Fatale figure. This copy belonged to Mary B. Housman, a cousin of Edward Housman, father of Clemence and Laurence.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publishers medium brown cloth. Titles and spine decoration in gilt, title page printed in red, all 6 plates with tissue guards intact. Endpapers separated in gutters, hinges remain firm, bookplate to front fixed endpaper. Bleiler GUIDE TO SUPERNATURAL FICTION # 848. "Semi allegorical, reminiscent of the work of William Morris in its dreamy atmosphere, verbal techniques and settings. One of the best werewolf stories."
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.