Lamb hugh ed (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First American Edition. (price-clipped) [tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover near spine, no other significant shelfwear, light age-toning to edges of text block, tiny stain at right edge of front endpaper, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, small check-marks next to most title in table of contents; the jacket shows only a touch of surface wear, and has a very short diagonal crease at the upper corner of the rear flap, but would grade as Near Fine but for the price-clipping)]. Anthology of horror stories about the dead rising from their graves to torment the living. Contents: "Waxworks" (W.L. George); "Ingredient X" (H.R. Wakefield); "In the Tomb" (Arthur Porges); "Roxana Runs Lunatick" (R. Murray Gilchrist); "The Sistrum" (Alice Perrin); "The Coffin of Lissa" (August Derleth); "The Slype House" (A.C. Benson); "The Watcher" (R.H. Benson); "The Other Woman" (Rosemary Timperley); "Snow Time" (Oswell Blakeston); "The Tower of Moab" (L.A. Lewis); "'Blue Eyes'" (Maurice Level); "In the Shadows" (Ramsey Campbell); "Some Words with a Mummy" (Edgar Allan Poe); "Dad" (John Blackburn); "Composed of Cobwebs" (Eddy C. Bertin); "Death in the Well" (Frederick Cowles); "The Legion of Evil" (Warren Ledge); "The Wall" (Robert Haining); "At Simmel Acres Farm" (Eleanor Scott). Illustrated by (dj photography) Chris Yates (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First American Edition. [book is lightly worn at the extremities, some discoloration around edges of endpapers, small ink check-marks next to all titles in table of contents, previous owner's initials + date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is lightly rubbed, with just a bit of wear along the top and bottom edges]. "Fifteen rare supernatural tales from the days of gaslight and gore, hansoms and horrors, music halls and mayhem." Contents: "Xélucha" (M.P. Shiel); "The Black Veil" (Charles Dickens); "The Mystery at Fernwood" (Elizabeth Braddon); "The Black Lady of Brin Tor" (Guy Boothby); "The Mother of Monsters" (Guy de Maupassant); "The Murderer's Violin" (Erckmann-Chatrain); "The Mask" (Richard Marsh); "The Dead Man of Varley Grange" (Anonymous); "My Favourite Murder" (Ambrose Bierce); "The Shadow in the Moonlight" (Mrs. Molesworth); "The Last of Squire Ennismore" (Mrs. J.H. Riddell); "The Red Warder of the Reef" (J.A. Barry); "Wolverden Tower" (Grant Allen); "Madam Crowl's Ghost" (J. Sheridan le Fanu); "The Cave of Blood" (Dick Donovan). Illustrated by (dj design) Rus Anderson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [slight bump and tiny crack to lower corner of front cover, age-toning to edges of text block; jacket is a bit scuffed on the rear panel, otherwise quite nice], The editor, in his introduction, assures us that these dozen stories "have been out of print for many years, most of them since they first appeared. Not because they have been considered unworthy of reprinting -- but because they have literally been forgotten." Contents: "The Fear from the Lake" (Oswell Blakeston); "The Cadaver of Bishop Louis" (Frederick Cowles); "Smeath" (Barry Pain); "The Murder of the Hunchbacked Boy" (C.D. Pamely); "The Reconciliation" (Lafcadio Hearn); "The Moon Stricken" (Bernard Capes); "The Chippendale Mirror" (E.F. Benson); "The Haunted Bungalow" (Charles Duff); "The Third Eye" (Robert W. Chambers); "The Late Mrs. Fowke" (Amyas Northcote); "The Mystery of the Derelict" (William Hope Hodgson); "The House on the Rynek" (Dermot Chesson Spence). Illustrated by (dj) Alun Hood (illustrator).…