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..... More
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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]: 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..... 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
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..... 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
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..... More
NP (United Kingdom): OrangeBox Books, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 222pp + ii adverts. Glossy pictorial wrappers, b&w illustrations. A promotional postcard is loosely inserted. 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..... 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
Seattle: University of Washington Press, September, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto. 396pp. Illustrated covers, b&w illustrations, appendixes and maps, glossary and index. Number 72 in the series: Anthropological Papers of The American Museum of Natural History. In it the authors describe & analyze of Indian ghost beliefs, ghost illness, and..... 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
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..... More
London: Printed for the proprietor, and sold by L. Wayland, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. (ii) xx, [25]-302pp [i.e. 314pp]. Full leather binding with gilt title label on spine. Original period leather boards, skillfully rebacked by renowned London book-binder and restoration expert Bernard C. Middleton (1924 - 2019). An..... 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
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 128pp. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. A collection of "true" ghost stories related to the British railway system, many of which came from accounts by railwaymen themselves. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his..... More
London: William Rider, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 196pp. Light blue cloth lettered in black on spine. The first edition of this collection of stories about scheming ghosts ("authentic cases which demonstrate that ghostly phenomena are not always without purpose - that they sometimes do occur for a very definite..... More
London: Daniel O'Connor, 1921. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 396pp. Medium blue cloth with gilt titling to spine, blind borders on upper cover, illustrated endpapers. In his Introduction Ernest Percival Rhys (1859 –1946) the Anglo-Welsh writer who was founding editor of the Everyman's Library series, indicates that this "remarkable batch..... 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
New York, NY: Didier, 1944. Third printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 298pp. Green cloth lettered in black on spine. The author, Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839 – 1934) was a British ecumenist with a passion for collecting ghost stories which he retold to his children. This collected volume of those..... More
