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Ludwig Lavater [trans. Robert Harrison].
Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Night.
London: Printed by Henry Benneyman for Richard Watkyns, 1572. First English edition. Quarto. [16], 220 pages. 184 x 135 mm.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45119 | Jun 8, 2023
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H.P. Lovecraft. Four books, all signed by H.P. Lovecraft.
Various publishers: 1841-1928. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45133 | Jun 8, 2023
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[James Malcolm Rymer, et. al.].
The String of Pearls; or, the Barber of Fleet Street
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London: Published by E. Lloyd, 1850.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45191 | Jun 8, 2023
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M.R. James.
The Malice of Inanimate Objects.
12 leaves, written rectos only; final leaf blank.
Submitted autograph manuscript draft, written and corrected in pencil.
With
two additional autograph letters signed
to Buchan, dated 17 April 1933 and 17 May 1933, respectively, discussing the present draft.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45112 | Jun 8, 2023
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
Uncle Silas.
London: Richard Bentley, 1864. Three volumes. First edition. Octavo. [2], xii, 325, [1, imprint]; [2], iv, 315, [1, imprint]; [2], iv, 324 pages.
Presentation copy, inscribed to Le Fanu's sister-in-law, Henrietta:
"To / Henrietta Le Fanu / from / the author / December, 1864."
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45123 | Jun 8, 2023
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J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit
, or There and Back Again.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937. First edition, second impression. Octavo. 310, [2, publisher's ads] pages + four colored plates.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45219 | Jun 8, 2023
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Frederick Cowles.
The Horror of Abbot's Grange and Other Stories.
London: Frederick Muller, 1936. First edition, in the original illustrated dust jacket with the publisher's wrap-around band. Octavo. 256 pages.
Presentation copy to Dennis Wheatley,
"To Dennis Wheatley with sincere / admiration from the Author, / Frederick I. Cowles. 11. ix. 1936."
With Wheatley's bookplate
to the front pastedown and a signed note opposite the title page. (Total: 2)
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45052 | Jun 8, 2023
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Gaston Leroux.
The Phantom of the Opera.
New York and Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. First American edition, first issue, in the
exceedingly rare
original illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. 357, [1, blank] pages + color frontispiece and four two-page color illustrations by Andre Castaigne.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45129 | Jun 8, 2023
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Bram Stoker.
Dracula.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First American edition. Octavo. x, 378 pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45208 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Edgar Allen Poe.]
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
Of Nantucket.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. First edition. 12mo. [2, ads dated May 1838], iii-viii, 9-201, [1, blank] pages + 14 pages of publisher's advertisements.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45166 | Jun 8, 2023
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R.R. Ryan.
Freak Museum.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1938. First edition, in the first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 282 + 6 pages of advertisements, featuring other books by Ryan.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45189 | Jun 8, 2023
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
In a Glass Darkly.
London: R. Bentley & Son, 1872. Three volumes. First edition. Octavo. [vi], 299; [4], 285; [2], 270 pages; prologue leaf called for in vol. II mistakenly duplicated and placed after dedication leaf in vol. I. (Total: 3 Items)
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| Lot: 45127 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Anonymous]. [James Malcolm Rymer, presumed].
Varney, the Vampyre: Or, The Feast of Blood. A Romance.
London: E. Lloyd, [1847]. First edition in book form. (Total: 2)
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| Lot: 45190 | Jun 8, 2023
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Bram Stoker.
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories.
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., [1914]. First edition, first impression, in a first state dust jacket.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45211 | Jun 8, 2023
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H.G. Wells.
The Time Machine.
An invention.
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1895. True first edition, first printing, with the author's name listed as "H.S. Wells" throughout. Small octavo. [vii], [1, blank], 216, [2, blank], [6, publisher's advertisements] pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45228 | Jun 8, 2023
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Ian Fleming.
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1953]. First edition, first impression, in a second issue dust jacket. Octavo. 218 pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45072 | Jun 8, 2023
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H.P. Lovecraft.
The Shunned House.
With a Preface by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook, The Recluse Press, 1928. First edition. 12mo. 59 pages. Uncut and unbound,
with the uncancelled copyright notice of W. Paul Cook
and the "Canterbury Laid" watermark.
From the library of Donald Wandrei, co-founder of Arkham House.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45134 | Jun 8, 2023
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J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit
, or There and Back Again.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First edition, first impression, with the bowing hobbit on the title page, the list of illustrations on page 9 erroneously listing
Thror's Map
first, Chapter VII mislabeled as "Chapter VI" on page [118], final leaf blank, and without half-title as issued. Octavo. 310 pages + four colored plates.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45220 | Jun 8, 2023
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Charles Baudelaire.
Les Fleurs du Mal.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1901. Large 12mo, mounted on thick paper measuring 280 x 210 mm. 280 pages, fully illustrated with contemporary watercolors + additional illustrated title page bound in at the front.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45009 | Jun 8, 2023
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Jane Austen.
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1818. 4 volumes. First edition. 12mo. 300; 331; 280; 308 pages. Lacking half-titles for volumes II-IV and final blanks (P7 and P8) for volume IV. (Total: 4)
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45007 | Jun 8, 2023
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James Hilton.
Lost Horizon.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First edition. Octavo. 281, [1, blank], [2, ads dated Autumn 1933] pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45099 | Jun 8, 2023
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[James Hogg.]
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824. First edition. Octavo. [4], 390 pages + engraved frontispiece. Lacking initial and terminal blanks.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45103 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Charles Maturin.]
Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, 1820. Four volumes. First edition. Large 12mo. v-xii, 341; [2], 321; [2], 368; [2], 453 pages. Lacking half-titles in all volumes and the single ad leaf at the end of vol. IV. (Total: 4)
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| Lot: 45139 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Charles Maturin.]
Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale.
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, 1820. Four volumes. First edition. Large 12mo. v-xii, 341; [2], 321; [2], 368; [2], 453 pages. Lacking half-titles in all volumes and the single ad leaf at the end of vol. IV. (Total: 4)
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| Lot: 45140 | Jun 8, 2023
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Oscar Wilde.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1891]. First edition, with the misprint of "nd" for "and" on page 208. Octavo. viii, 334 pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45237 | Jun 8, 2023
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Wilkie Collins.
The Queen of Hearts.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859. Three volumes. First edition. Octavo. [2], iv, 314; [2], 359; [2], 307 pages. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45044 | Jun 8, 2023
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Murray Gilchrist.
The Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances.
London: Methuen and Co., 1894. First edition. Octavo. [8], 208 pages + 24 pages of publisher's advertisements, uncut, dated October 1893.
Presentation copy, inscribed to Uranian poet and publisher Francis Edwin Murray, with three handwritten letters pasted or laid in, and Murray's bookplate to the front pastedown.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45078 | Jun 8, 2023
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Albert Robida.
Voyage de Fiancailles au XX Siècle
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Paris: Librairie L Conquet, 1892. First edition.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45179 | Jun 8, 2023
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M.P. Shiel. Large archive of Shiel material,
including numerous correspondence between Shiel and his publishers, along with original carbon typescript copies of a number of short stories and novels, some unpublished,
with ink annotations and corrections.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45199 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Attributed to Ann Howell].
Mortimore Castle; a Cambrian Tale
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London: Printed for William Lane, 1793.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45107 | Jun 8, 2023
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John Dickson Carr.
Hag's Nook.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1933. First edition. Octavo. [6], 291 pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45035 | Jun 8, 2023
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John Dickson Carr.
It Walks By Night.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First edition, in the original illustrated dust jacket. Octavo. [10], 328 pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45030 | Jun 8, 2023
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
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London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1923.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45198 | Jun 8, 2023
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Joseph Atterley [pseud. George Tucker].
A Voyage to the Moon.
New York: Elam Bliss, 1827. First edition. Octavo. 264 pages. Lacking terminal blank.
With the bookplate of noted detective fiction, science fiction, and horror collector Dr. Larry Solomon.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45006 | Jun 8, 2023
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Athanasius Kircher.
Iter Exstaticum Coeleste.
Wurzburg: J.A. and W. Endter, 1671. Second edition. Quarto. ()4, ()()4, ()()()4, A-Tttt4 + 12 engraved plates + additional engraved title. With the engraved arms of Joachim von Gravenegg on the title verso.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45115 | Jun 8, 2023
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bertram-Haugh.
London: Richard Bentley, 1864. Three volumes. First edition. Octavo. xii, 325, [1, imprint]; iv, 315, [1, imprint]; iv, 324 pages. Lacking half-titles for volumes II and III. (Total: 3 Items)
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| Lot: 45124 | Jun 8, 2023
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H.P. Lovecraft.
The Shunned House.
With a Preface by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook, The Recluse Press, 1928. First edition. 12mo. 59 pages. Unbound, with the first state of the Arkham House cancel copyright notice with books and magazines set in bold typeface, and the "Canterbury Laid" watermark.
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| Lot: 45135 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Clara Reeve].
The Champion of Virtue. A Gothic Story. By the Editor of the Phoenix; A Translation of Barclay's Argenis
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1777. First edition.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45173 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Mary Shelley.] H[enry] M. Milner.
Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster!
A Peculiar Romantic Melo-Dramatic Pantomimic Spectacle, in Two Acts. Founded principally on Mrs. Shelley's singular Work.
London: Printed and published by Duncombe, [1826].
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| Lot: 45195 | Jun 8, 2023
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Mary Shelley.
The Last Man.
London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Three volumes. Octavo. xii; 358; 328; 352 pages. Lacking ads in vol. I and half-titles in vol. II and III. (Total: 3 Items)
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| Lot: 45196 | Jun 8, 2023
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H. G. Wells.
Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune
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Paris: Félix Juven, n.d. [but 1901].
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| Lot: 45233 | Jun 8, 2023
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Wilkie Collins.
The Woman in White.
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1860. Three volumes. First edition, second issue. Octavo. viii, 316; [2], 360; [2], 368 pages + 16 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. III, dated November 1, 1860. (Total: 3 Items)
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| Lot: 45045 | Jun 8, 2023
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[August Derleth]. Large Archive of Correspondence and Ephemera, Circa 1945-1975.
(Total: 2)
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| Lot: 45060 | Jun 8, 2023
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Thea von Harbou.
Metropolis.
Berlin: August Scherl, [1926].
Limited edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author and her husband, director Fritz Lang, this being no. 59.
Octavo. 274 pages.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45091 | Jun 8, 2023
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L. P. Hartley.
The Killing Bottle.
London: Putnam, 1932. First edition.
Inscribed by the author
to the front free endpaper recto,
"C.H.B.K. / from / L.P.H."
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45095 | Jun 8, 2023
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David Lindsay.
A Voyage to Arcturus.
London: Methuen & Co., [1920]. First edition in the scarce dust jacket.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45130 | Jun 8, 2023
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[Cynthia Asquith, compiler].
Shudders.
A Collection of New Nightmare Tales.
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1929]. First English edition.
Association copy, with ALS from Cynthia Asquith.
Additionally inscribed
in Latin on the front free endpaper to author C. H. B. Kitchin.
Auction 6268
| Lot: 45005 | Jun 8, 2023
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L. Frank Baum; W.W. Denslow, illustrator.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Chicago and New York: Geo M. Hill Co., 1900. First edition, second state of text and plates, binding C with the publisher's imprint at foot of spine in red serif type. Quarto. [261], [1, blank] pages, with the imprint acting as the rear pastedown. Twenty-four inserted color plates in the second state, with dark-blue blots on the plate facing page 34 and the red shading on the plate facing page 92 removed, in addition to numerous intertextual illustrations by W. W. Denslow.
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| Lot: 45010 | Jun 8, 2023
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