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Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9781566764131.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 117pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Grey cloth, lettered, ruled and decorated in black. Backstrip ends and corner tips gently rubbed. A somewhat shaken copy, with the binding cracked and tender at the title page and at one other gathering, and a single text leaf detached and laid-in. Paperstock toned. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a US book dealer inkstamp to the base of the front pastedown. A fair copy. A pseudonymous collection of tales concerning an occult detective, one of the earliest such publications (these six stories were originally published in 'Pearson's Magazine').

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Multiple, inc. Frank Brangwyn, E. H. Hubbard, Percy Smith, Hugh Paton, Leslie M. Ward. (illustrator). First edition. An uncommon first edition of this detailed work on etching and its adjacent practices by members of The Print Society. The first edition of this work.Uncommon.With 10 monochrome plates including a frontispiece etching by Frank Brangwyn, and 5 vignette diagrams illustrating standard artistic printing methods. Collated complete. Includes errata slip at the Foreword (pp.8-9) and advertisements to the rear, as well as two copies of advertisements for subscription to The Bookplate Magazine titled 'The Bookplate Magazine during 1921'. Each of these advertisements feature a front page illustration titled 'Fallitur Hora Legendo'. This is a greatly informative work on etching and its adjacent practices created by members of The Print Society, with sections dedicated to exploring dry point, aquatint, and mezzotint. In the publisher's original quarter linen cloth binding. Externally, smart with just one noticeable mark to the rear board and some dulling to the colour of both boards at the edges, as well as to the spine. Slight bumping to the top corners. Some spotting and toning to the fore edges. Internally, firmly bound with a few scattered spots and light toning throughout, but otherwise pages bright and clean. One small annotation, not affecting readability (pp. 144). Very Good Indeed. book.

First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 117. Two pages of adverts at rear. Grey cloth decorated and lettered in black. Six stories of the occult detective Flaxman Low.On the front free endpaper is what seems to be a Japanese ownership inscription and on the title-page is a Japanese inkstamp. Very good. No dustwrapper.

Half title, 2pp cata.; browned. Orig. grey cloth lettered & blocked in black; a bit spotted & rubbed, extremities sl. bumped. Gift inscription 'Eve - Xmas 1917' on leading f.e.p., ownership inscription 'F. Hood 1917' on p.1. A good-plus copy. Copac records one copy of this impression in Senate House Library. First published in 1916. A collection of six ghost stories including 'The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith', 'The Story of Medhans Lea', 'The Story of the Moor Road', 'The Story of Baelbrow', 'The Story of the Grey House', and 'The Story of Yand Manor House'. The stories follow the adventures of the occult detective and ghost hunter Flaxman Low. Taking after Sherlock Holmes, Det. Low solves mysteries with no tools other than his extraordinary powers of observation. E. and H. Heron were the pseudonyms of mother and son writers Hesketh, 1876-1922, and Kate Pritchard (dates unknown). The stories first appeared in Pearson's Magazine in 1899.

First edition, first printing in the 12 individual original parts. Publisher's pictorial paper covers. 12 volumes, loosely laid into the publisher's original cloth cases. With 95 black and white illustrations throughout the text by Benjamin Edward Minns. Each volume in good or very good condition, the bindings firm with some rubbing and chipping to the extremities, resulting in areas loss to the spines of most volumes. The contents, with some toning to the cheap quality paperstock and foxing to the occasional page, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The covers of four volumes are detached (Jan 1899, April 1899, May 1899, June 1899), with two rear covers missing (Jan 1899, May 1899). The publisher's green cloth cases, decorated in green, brown and gilt, are in near fine condition with a little rubbing and bumping at the edges. All volumes are in entirely original condition, without repair or restoration. Rare in this form. A collection of supernatural mysteries featuring Flaxman Low, who is considered one of the earliest occult detectives. 'Real Ghost Stories' was issued in serialized form by Cyril Arthur Pearson in two series of six parts between 1898 and 1899 written by Hesketh V. Prichard and Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard under the pen name E. and H. Heron. Every six months the publisher would take the unsold stock of the individual monthly parts and bind them into decorated cloth boards supplying a new title page and discarding the original wrappers in the process. The first edition in book form, published by Pearson under the title 'Ghosts: Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low', collected all 12 stories, with a frontispiece and 12 illustrations (far fewer than the 95 published in Pearsons Magazine). (Bleiler) Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Zustand: Fair. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1916. Reissue of the 1899 Edition (sometimes seen described as a Second Edition or Impression), containing only the first six of that edition's twelve stories. 12mo; 117pp + publisher's imprint & 2pp ads. Publisher's blue-gray cloth with dark blue/black lettering, Boards heavily rubbed and pushed along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a good amount of soiling / smudging to surface and scuffing down joints. Front joint cracked. Half title, full title, and a couple interior pages cleanly separated but laid in, with a few other interior pages close to the same. Opens easily between gatherings with occasional gaps between. Binding feels a bit loose but otherwise holding. Pages toned and brittle, but unmarked. Rough copy, but complete. Collection of stories following the adventures of Flaxman Low -- fiction's first Psychic Detective -- published under pseudonym by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard. The stories originally appeared in Pearson's Magazine from 1898 - 1899, with a first book collection by Pearson in 1899. [Bleiler Supernatural 799].