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Howard, Elizabeth Jane & Aickman, Robert. We are for the Dark. Jonathan Cape, London, 1951.

Price: US$251.21 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The boards have a few light marks to the rear panel and slight fading to the spine and bend a little outwards at the fore edges but are otherwise unmarked with bright and clear lettering. Small book shop label to the bottom corner of the front pastedown. The page edges are a little browned with a scratch across the top edges but other than a little browning around the edges the pages are clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.

Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, SUFFO, United Kingdom

Aickman, Robert ; Elizabeth Jane Howard. We Are For The Dark. Jonathan Cape, London, United Kingdom, 1951.

Price: US$403.29 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 285pp. This is a true first UK edition, first printing (first impression) with 1951 and no statement of reprint on the copyright page. A very good copy, with a large bookseller stamp to the title page, clean pages tight binding, in fair dust jacket that is not price clipped, with chips/loss to the lower spine, corners, large closed tear to rear fold at spine and front fold. A solid copy.

Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland

HOWARD, Elizabeth Janes, Robert Aickman.. WE ARE FOR THE DARK: SIX GHOST STORIES.. Jonathan Cape,, London,, 1951.

Price: US$450.89 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 285. Original publisherÕs burgundy cloth, lettered silver at spine. Stories include: Perfect Love, The Insufficient Answer, Three Miles Up, Left Luggage. Endpapers slightly foxed and slight marking to covers, otherwise very good in slightly used, very good dust jacket, with slight edgewear and slight nicking at lower edge.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

Aickman, Robert and Elizabeth Jane Howard. WE ARE FOR THE DARK: SIX GHOST STORIES. Jonathan Cape [1951], London, 1951.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, boards. Aickman's scarce first book. Collects three stories by Aickman and three by Howard with Aickman's collaboration including the classic "Three Miles Up." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 851. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-7. Several small glue stains to front paste-down (likely from a bookplate), slight lean, a nearly fine copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to corner tips and spine folds, age darkening to lettering of spine panel with light shelf wear to spine ends, short closed tear to upper rear panel. (22220)

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

Aickman, Robert and Elizabeth Jane Howard. We are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories. Jonathan Cape, London, 1951.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: GIFT QUALITY almost. only flaw bookmark caused finger nail size bleed through top page edge as pictured First edition Very good condition hard cover nice dust jacket, price present , gently read clean pages, jacket placed in mylar cover, when book was fresh if not new, rare to find any book and jacket this clean from before 1960

Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.