benson e dward f rederic (41 resultados)

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design) Ilustrador. 318 pp. Part I issue only! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased and slanted spine. Top right corner of front cover bent. Bottom left corner of back cover bent.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design) Ilustrador. Part V/2nd Printing. 318 pp. Part V issue only! Solidly and tightly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with clean text on crisp and bright pages. Smooth covers. Mildly or minimally shelf worn. Moderate discoloration/browning/tanning/foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Moderately creased and slanted spine.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design) Ilustrador. Part VI/1st Printing. 317 pp. Part VI issue only!! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Lightly creased spine. Moderate foxing on page edges, not affecting text.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design) Ilustrador. Part IV. 382 pp. Part IV issue only! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Front cover and center bent.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design) Ilustrador. 317 pp. Part VI issue only!! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Lightly creased spine. Some tears on back cover.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design) Ilustrador. 382 pp. Part IV issue only! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased and slanted spine. Front cover bent.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Marie Michal (Cover Illustration); Gloria Adelson/Lulu Graphics (Cover Design) Ilustrador. 318 pp. Part V issue only! Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Lightly warped covers.

Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-208, illustrations, boards. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#134285).

Octavo, boards. First edition, British issue. Mixed collection of twenty-seven stories published between 1896 and 1932, most previously uncollected, grouped by topic -- crank stories, society stories, cruel stories, odd stories, spook stories, etc. Selected with introduction by Jack Adrian. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#8926).

Octavo, boards. First edition. Mixed collection of thirty-one stories published between 1894 and 1931, most previously uncollected, grouped by topic -- the further diversions of Amy Bondham, crook stories, sardonic stories, society stories, crank stories, and spook stories. The three spook stories are "By the Sluice," "Atmospherics" and "Boxing Night." Selected with introduction by Jack Adrian. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#132095).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. rebacked with original backstrip relaid, ownership signature front free endpaper, good. same year as the first edition; 339 pages; keywords: fiction;

4 Bl., 355 S. Gr.-8°. Rote Original-Leinwand (red publishers cloth, no dust jacket). Erste Ausgabe. - Vorderes Innengelenk leicht aufgeplatzt, Buchblock gering schiefgelesen. Einband etwas bestoßen und fleckig. - Vorsatz mit Besitzvermerk von Joan Mair, selbst Antiquarin und von 1945 bis zu ihrem Tod 1992 verheiratet mit dem 1933 emigrierten Antiquar Hellmut Albert ("Feisy") Feisenberger (1909-1999), einem der maßgeblichen Mitarbeiter der Ausstellung "Printing and the mind of man" und in seinen späteren Jahren associate director bei Sotheby's. Gewicht (Gramm): 1010.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good +. 2nd Edition. Second American Edition. 8vo.364, title page dated 1906 , 3 p. adverts to the rear. Original blue cloth with, title and decoration to front panel. Cloth slight dulled, spine rubbed to top and base. Internally clean pages and tight binding. Some dulling and spotting to the edge of the text block.

First US edition. Bookplate on front pastedown and slight slant to spine, else very good without dust jacket.

Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Text offset from a later printing of the 1928 Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd. edition with text ending on page [288] rather than page 286. Collects twelve stories. Excellent ghost stories juxtaposing nature mysticism with graphic horrors to striking effect; including classics "The Face," "Naboth's Vineyard," and "And No Bird Sings." A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#176889).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. spine bumped, splash-mark and cloth bubbling upper cover, corners rubbed, later endpapers, good. first edition; 293 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. two volumes bound as one, contemporary cloth, spine bumped and lightly sunned, ownership signature front free endpaper, a nice copy. bound without the series half-title volume I; 270 and 279 pages; keywords: fiction; Todd and Bowden 4025 and 4026.

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-8] 9-273 [274-278] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks used as front and rear free endpapers and paste-downs], original decorated brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. A satire. One of the society novels, with recurring characters, for which Benson was best-known during his lifetime. A bright, clean, very good copy. (#116952).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Second of five projected volumes in the Ash-Tree Press "Collected Spook Stories of E. F. Benson" series. Collects fourteen stories, all first published between 1912 and 1921, with introduction by Jack Adrian. All of the stories appeared in earlier collections of Benson's Fiction: THE ROOM IN THE TOWER (1912), THE COUNTESS OF LOWNDES SQUARE (1920), MORE SPOOK STORIES (1934) and THE FLINT KNIFE: FURTHER SPOOK STORIES (1988). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#156955).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Second of five projected volumes in the Ash-Tree Press "Collected Spook Stories of E. F. Benson" series. Collects fourteen stories, all first published between 1912 and 1921, with introduction by Jack Adrian. All of the stories appeared in earlier collections of Benson's Fiction: THE ROOM IN THE TOWER (1912), THE COUNTESS OF LOWNDES SQUARE (1920), MORE SPOOK STORIES (1934) and THE FLINT KNIFE: FURTHER SPOOK STORIES (1988). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#156954).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. First of five projected volumes in the Ash-Tree Press "Collected Spook Stories of E. F. Benson" series. Collects fifteen stories, all first published between 1899 and 1911, with introduction by Jack Adrian. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#156957).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. First of five volumes in the Ash-Tree Press "Collected Spook Stories of E. F. Benson" series. Collects fifteen stories, all first published between 1899 and 1911, with introduction by Jack Adrian. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#156958).

Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. First of five projected volumes in the Ash-Tree Press "Collected Spook Stories of E. F. Benson" series. Collects fifteen stories, all first published between 1899 and 1911, with introduction by Jack Adrian. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#130825).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. spine bumped and a trifle creased, corners a trifle rubbed, feintly spotted, good. first edition; 321 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. spine bumped with minor chipping, corners a trifle rubbed, initial advertisement leaf, upper joint cracked, a nice copy. family estrangement through the vagaries of character, illustrated in a brother and sister who make their own lives, one by a musical career, the other by her marriage, in opposition to their father, an orthodox clergyman; from the library of Elizabeth M Benyon with her bookplate front pastedown; first edition; 306 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. spine bumped and a trifle chipped, upper cover water-marked, publisher's catalogue, good. first edition; 279 pages; keywords: fiction;

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. spine bumped, minor marks to covers, advertisement leaves, scattered spotting (mainly to titlepage and fore edge), ownership signature front free endpaper, a nice copy. first edition; 292 pages; keywords: fiction;

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-255 [256: blank], publisher's pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in tan, gray, black and white, spine panel stamped in white. First U.S. edition. Murder mystery by an author better known for society comedies and supernatural horror tales. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 146. Hubin (1994), p. 66. Small stain on rear cover, a very good copy. (#174544).

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-316 [317-318: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original decorated dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. This novel "features a family curse -- engendering the birth of monsters -- and a protagonist tempted by perversion." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 106. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 146. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01131. Ink mark to front paste-down, a nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with a 26 mm closed tear at bottom edge of front panel, several tiny tears at upper edge of front panel, wear to spine ends, small chip at lower spine end, and some general dust soiling. (#156668).

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-xiv [xv-xvi] [1] 2-301 [302: blank], original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. Weird novel of ancient Druidic sorcery set in Cornwall in the 1870s. Benson's last supernatural novel. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-16. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 31. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01133. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (priced $2.50 on the front flap) with light wear at spine ends and corner tips. (#171646).