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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: London: Philip Allan & Company Limited., Quality Court:, 1928. First British edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket, 311 pp. Clean and straight with a dusty head. Modest toning to extremities. Rear hinge beginning to crack. Cover material dusted as well but now protected in an acetate wrap. No, this is not the black cloth but rather a pale grey. Yes, "First edition. . . . 1928" does appear on the colophon. First British edition, Hardcover, Good with no dust jacket,
Seller: Ziesings, Shingletown, CA, U.S.A.
Wakefield, H.R.:. Gallimaufry.. London: Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., 1928., 1928.
Price: US$168.07 + shipping
Description: First edition. By author of "They Return at Evening". A novel. 320 pp. Navy blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine and gold ruled margin to front board. Top and bottom of spine and corners very lightly rubbed. Boards lightly faded in patches. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark yellow leather effect boards with a black border and lettering (now very faded) to spine. Boards are slightly marked on front and back. Page edges slightly tanned and marked. Internally clean apart from very occasional fingerprint smudges. Contains previous owner's signature and address on fep. A rare copy of this classic book of ghost stories. Good
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Wakefield (H.R.). They Return at Evening. a Book of Ghost Stories. Philip Allan, London, 1928.
Price: US$417.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Woodcut device to title. Original black cloth. Cloth a little damp speckled near head of spine, but overall VG. A solid first edition of this collection of tales by a well-respected author, including his celebrated black magic yarn 'He cometh and he Passeth by'; Bleiler called these "excellent stories".
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-313 [314: blank] [315-316: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, probable first binding. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 177. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 445-46. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14769. Early owner's signature dated February 1928 on front free endpaper, some light spotting to top edge of pages, a very good copy. Copies in the first binding are uncommon. (#154587)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-313 [314: blank] [315-316: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 177. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 445-46. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14769. Formerly Hugh Lamb's copy with his inked signature on the front free end paper, slight lean, corners slightly bruised, spine ends a little pushed, a few tiny stains to rear cover, a very good to nearly fine copy. An as new facsimile dust jacket is included. (28186)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.