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London: Nichols & Co. / Tutin, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 344pp + 29pp. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine and gilt rules to upper board. Two titles in one volume each with its own title page. Published anonymously, both appear to have been written by British poet..... More
London: Citizen T. G. Ballard, 1795. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Pamphlet. 8pp. (inclusive of wrappers). A popular - if gruesome - political satire with added satirical ghost story. The radical work known as "Pitt's Death" was first published in the London paper "The Telegraph" on 20th, 21st, and 24th of..... More
London: Bodley Head, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 252pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering, b&w illustrations. The author explores mysteries world-wide, including giant man-eating crocodiles, fire-breathing dragons, underground elephants, the disappearance and rediscovery of the bomber "Lady Be Good" in the Sahara, and many other curiosities. Light foxing to..... More
London: Johnston & Bacon, 1973. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Pocket-sized paperback. 92pp. A Dutch correspondent's exploration of some of the quirkier sides of British culture, such as "ghosts, Druids, art auctions, steam trains and witches." There are passing references to Aleister Crowley in the witchcraft chapter. B/w illustrations. A tight..... More
London: The Author, Privately printed, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Booklet. viii + 30pp + iipp b&w plates. Original stapled wrappers, lettered and bordered in red. B/w frontispiece & several b/w plates, appendices. An investigation into "the Bromley poltergeist" by Manfred Cassirer (1920 – 2003) a British Egyptologist, parapsychologist and author..... More
NP (United Kingdom): OrangeBox Books, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 222pp + ii adverts. Glossy pictorial wrappers, b&w illustrations. Described by the publisher as "A haunting compendium of the finest most thought provoking, intriguing and chilling true short stories ever to possess a single volume." Mixed in with the tales..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 260pp. [ ii pp ]. Blue cloth spine lettered in gilt, white papered boards. B/w plates. The first edition of the story of one of America’s most terrifying true haunting’s which took place from 1974 to 1987..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 286pp. Dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. The British character actor (known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear and for appearances on the Goon Show) undertakes a Fortean..... More
North Yorkshire, UK: Dalesman Books, 1976. Reprint. Softcover. Slim octavo. 80pp. B/w illustrations. An entertaining collection of ghostly and supernatural folk-lore from Lancashire. Wrappers lightly rubbed, hint of foxing to top-edge, small erasure spot on front free endpaper, else a tight, clean VG copy. More
London: Griffith & Farrar, 1882. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. (ii) 88pp. (+ 2pp. adverts.) Original pictorial wrappers. Adverts on inside covers, front and rear. A supposedly true ghost story with a truly mysterious twist. In September 1861 Charles Dickens published a supposedly true tale of a ghostly encounter, entitled..... More
New York: Reader's Digest, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Small octavo. Cloth covered card covers with printed paper title label on upper cover. The front free endpaper acts as a title-page, with the excised Reader's Digest page-header, logo and main headline for the article pasted in. A 4-page essay extracted..... More
London: The Westminster Press, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo. 410pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, gilt heraldic design on upper board, beveled edges. Sepia frontisportrait & plates. Top-edge-gilt. A presentation copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to Sir John Leigh on front free endpaper. This most..... More
St. Peter Port, Guernsey: Toucan Press / J. Stevens Cox, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Booklet. 16pp. Stapled card wrappers. Limited Edition - "250 copies for sale." A ghost story, "Gosse's earliest work of fiction now first published from his original manuscript." Wrappers a little discolored, otherwise a sharp, clean VG+..... More
London: MacMillan / St. Martin's Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x+118. Original blue cloth with gilt title and author and spine, map endpapers, frontis, b/w illustrations, tipped in errata at rear. The story of the "Cock Lane ghost" attracted enormous attention in 18th-century England, and although eventually debunked, continued..... More
Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 222pp. Black cloth lettered in silver on spine. B/w illustrations. The author examines a number of well known tales of the bizarre and paranormal, from the "Amityville Horror" through psychic detectives and Jack the Ripper, to the the curse of the..... More
Edinburgh, London: Oliver & Boyd and Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. Second, enlarged. Hardcover. Small 8vo. xii + 475 pp. Contemporary decorated half calf with marbled boards, gilt titling to spine label, raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration to spine, speckled page edges, folding table, vignettes, notes. The second, enlarged edition..... More
New York: Dorset Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 210pp. Purple cloth spine lettered in silver, cream papered boards with silver design on front board. Hans Holzer (1920 – 2009) was an Austrian born American paranormal researcher and author, who wrote more than 120 books on supernatural and occult subjects..... More
Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 330pp. Glossy pictorial boards. Index & bibliography. B/w illustrations. Collection of scholarly essays on ghostly phenomena; the book is divided into sections dealing with sociocultural, physical, and psychological perspectives. Spine ends lightly bumped, very light ripple to lower corner of..... More
Wellington: Reed, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii + 164pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver on spine. Bibliography & index. B/w plates. A collection of true tales of ghosts, hauntings and other psychic phenomena in New Zealand. Minor bumps to spine ends and corners, small creases to top-corners of pages..... More
London: T. & W. Boone, 1861. First editions. Hardcovers. Small octavos. Two volumes. xii + 330pp.; x + 364pp. Original decorated brown cloth gilt-lettered on spines. Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890) was a British author, Freemason, Rosicrucian, and student of comparative religion, who wrote widely on various esoteric subjects, although he is..... More
London: Rider, ND [ 1932 ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 144pp. Green cloth lettered in black on spine. A series of automatic writings received by written down by Isabelle Major Evans, a South African medium, in 1930. They purport to be communications from one Benjamin Kennicott (1718 - 1793)..... More
Stroud, England: Tempus, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 96pp. B/w illustrations. A modern collection of newspaper reports and first-hand accounts of hauntings in Bristol, England. A sharp, clean near-Fine copy. More
NP [ England ]: Privately printed, ND [ circa 1925 ]. Softcover. Booklet. 32pp. Printed stapled wrappers. "The following Story was printed in the 'St. Andrews Citizen' in 1925." The true story of the haunting of a square tower in "the great Abbey Wall" of Hepburn, Scotland. Wrappers rubbed, creased..... More
Dundee: Malcolm C. McLeod, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 272pp. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine. B/w frontis. & plates. A historical account of Dundee, Scotland which includes some reference to ghosts - though by the author's admission, the use of the term "Haunted" in the title refers..... More
New York: Taplinger, 1970. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 192pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black on spine. B/w frontis. The author recounts her time accompanying clairvoyant Tom Corbett on a round of visits to eleven English country houses, each purported to be haunted. Edges of boards slightly darkened, top-edge foxed..... More
