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Five Anthologies Regarding the Supernatural, including:... (Total: 5 Items)
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Five Anthologies Regarding the Supernatural, including: Montague Summers, editor. The Supernatural Omnibus: Being a Collection of Stories of Apparitions, Witchcraft, Werewolves, Diabolism, Necromancy, Satanism, Divination, Sorcery, Goety, and Voodoo. Edited with an Introduction, by Montague Summers. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., MCMXXXII [1932]. First edition. Octavo. xl, 690 pages. Publisher's black board covers with the spine lettered and illustrated in maroon. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to the front pastedown endpaper. Minor rubbing to the covers, sunned spine, some bumping to the covers. Altogether a very good copy. Such works included in this compilation are: Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, To be Taken with a Grain of Salt by Charles Dickens, The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, The Spirit of Stonehenge by Jasper John, and The Watcher O' the Dead by John Guinan. [and:] Groff and Lucy Conklin, editors. The Supernatural Reader. Edited by Groff and Lucy Conklin. Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1953]. First edition. Octavo. 349 pages. Publisher's bright green cloth covers with the spine lettered in black. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Robert Hallock. Very minor rubbing and discoloration to the back of the jacket, some discoloration to the endpapers. Altogether a very good copy. Groff and Lucy Conklin have collected a wide ranging group of fantastic tales into this one volume, including: Shottle Bop by Theodore Sturgeon, The Traitor by James S. Hart, The Nature of the Evidence by May Sinclair, Thirteen at Table by Lord Dunsany, and The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce. [and:] Spooks Deluxe: Some Excursions into the Supernatural. As told to and recounted by Danton Walker. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., [1956]. First Printing. Octavo. 187. Index. Publisher's quarter black shelf back over gray cloth covers. The spine is lettered in white on angles. Black dust jacket with lettering in white, pink, and green. Illustrated endpapers in black and white. All edges black. Some rubbing to the edges and corners of the covers, some rubbing to the jacket, tiny closed tears to the edges of the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. Danton Walker, the Broadway columnist, collects ghost stories he was told throughout his life, including: The White House Ghost, William Sloane's Story, ...And Other Theatrical Spooks, Mae West's Story, and The Metropolitan Opera Ghost. [and:] Montague Summers, collector. The Grimoire and other Supernatural Stories. London: The Fortune Press, [n.d.]. Octavo. xxxvi, 295 pages. Frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Yellow dust jacket lettered in black. Slight rubbing to the covers and jacket, minor bumping to the corners, some sunning and discoloration to the jacket spine, a few small closed tears to the jacket. Altogether a very good copy. Ghost stories collected in this work include: The Bampyre by John William Polidori, Dickon the Devil Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Grimoire by Montague Summers, and The Man on the Stairs anonymously written. [and:] The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination. Selected and with an Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., [1945]. Octavo. xx, 487 pages. Publisher's light blue cloth covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. Minor rubbing to the covers and jacket, some whit splotches to the back cover and spine, sunned jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. A highly varied collection of classic tales of the supernatural, not merely ghost stories. Some of the stories are as follows: Desire by James Stephens, Our Distant Cousins by Lord Dunsany, Sam Small's Better Half by Eric Knight, William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe, and Wireless by Rudyard Kipling.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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