London: J. & R. Tonson, 1765. Reprint. Hardcover. Small octavo (7" x 4"). 72pp. Recent half brown cloth with marbled paper boards & paper title label on front board; new endpapers. B/w frontis. Title page in red and black. An attractive early edition of this well-known comedic play by Joseph...
London: Doubleday, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xvi + 256pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. A well researched examination of the true life story of the exorcism portrayed in the now famous 1973 movie "The Exorcist". Page-edges & margins lightly tanned, old bookseller sticker on front free endpaper, otherwise...
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...
London: J. M. Richardson & J. Hatchard, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 242pp. Mid-nineteenth century patterned cloth, with gilt-lettered title label on spine. A narrative in verse - supposedly based in fact - which relates the story of a clothier named Kersey who, whilst attending the Weyhill Fair in...
[London]: np. [1680]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 4pp. Superb Elizabethan style craft binding by renowned London book-binder Bernard C. Middleton; full brown calf, with panels decorated and ruled in blind to the boards and raised bands & gilt title on spine. A tract that supposedly recounts an appearance before...
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...
New York, NY: McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover, large 8vo, xii + 338pp. Dark blue quarter-cloth with white titling to spine and light blue papered boards. Spine ends, edges, and corners very lightly bumped and faded. Overall, a bright and tight VG+ copy in VG dustjacket. (Dustjacket...
Doncaster: W. Sheardowns, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in 1. Octavo (8.5" x 5"). Vol. I: xvi + 258; Vol. II: iv + 260. Superb modern half leather craft binding by renowned London book-binder, Bernard C. Middleton. Half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine has raised bands, with...
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.....
London: Century, 2007. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 372pp. Black cloth with gilt-lettered on spine. Index. "The story of a small group of scientists who launched a determined scientific investigation into the 'unexplainable' incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations that had suddenly become national obsessions." Page-edges lightly age-toned, else...
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...
New York, NY: The J.S.Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover, Small 8vo, 246pp + 10pp of adverts. Tan cloth with gilt titling to spine and black titling to upper board. Blind rules to upper board. Spine ends, edges, and corners lightly rubbed and bumped. Upper board chafed very slightly...
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo. x + 246pp. Black cloth gilt-lettered on spine. Index & bibliography. Played out in London in the 1760s, the Cock Lane Ghost is a true story of sexual infatuation, murderous accusations, and ghostly visitations. Top-edge age-toned, else a tight, clean near-Fine...
Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2002. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. xx + 504pp. Pictorial wrappers. SIGNED by one of the editors - R. A. Gilbert - on the title page. A thoughtfully chosen anthology of English ghost stories, collecting some of the best and most frightening tales from the early 19th...
Isle of Man: Athol Publications, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Small 8vo. Periodical. 96pp. Pictorial paper covers, stapled binding. b&w illustrations. Reader's Forum includes a letter to the Editor from Arnold Crowther which comments on a letter in an earlier issue from Doreen Valiente on the subject of mud slinging. Also.....
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...
Manchester, England: Crécy Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv + 144pp. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Index. B/w illustrations. The author explores the folklore of strange aeronautical phenomena, such as phantom aircrew and spectral aircraft. Although the copyright page indicates this to be Volume I of.....
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1931. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 400pp. Original green cloth lettered in black on spine & front board. Anthology of fifteen ghostly short stories by authors including: Sheridan Le Fanu, Sir Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lafcadio Hearn, R. L. Stevenson, Edith Wharton, F. Marion Crawford, and Theophile Gautier...
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...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 274pp. + 14pp. ads. Green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Fresh endpapers. A collection of accounts of the supernatural. Chapters are: "The Salem Witchcraft", "Children", "The Cock-Lane Ghost", "Humany Testimony", "The Rochester Rappings", "The Strafford Mysteries", "The Voice of God"...
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, iv, 296 pp, xiipp. Original green cloth with gilt title, etc to spine, blind stamped design on front cover, index. "Couched in sparklingly humorous terms, this is a basically serious frontal assault -with intent to maim -on illogic, wishful...
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.
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...
London: Frederick Muller, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. 280pp. Blue cloth with gilt letting to spine, b&w illustrations, author biographies. An illustrated collection of tales of ghosts and hauntings at British Inns. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped and rubbed, page edges a little darkened and thumbed otherwise.....
Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xiv + 290pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on spine. Index. Color plates. Relying on medieval texts, the author examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, and shows how the Christian culture of...
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