selected edward vernon (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Doris Palinthorpe Ilustrador. 1st Edition. 1935 1st UK printing. Hardback. Author inscription on a front end paper: "Ever yours sincerely Edward Vernon Glasgow 20th July 1938." No other inscriptions. Clean & tight book. Book spine ends are faded. Jacket has a little loss & edge wear & a few short tears. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref C66. Plums From The Pudding: A Children's Miscellany. 54 talks to Boys and Girls. Baked and Selected by Edward Vernon. Author Signed Inscription. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. Author Signed Inscription.

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original purple cloth over paper covered upper board, with metallic purple titles to the spine and illustration to the upper board, in slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Harry Campbell with a frontispiece and six further full page colour plates, including one double spread. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase. A collection of 12 weird tales selected by the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Dirda. Comprising, 'Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter' by Sheridan Le Fanu; 'Amour Dure' by Vernon Lee; 'The Little Room' by Madeline Yale Wynne; 'Novel of the Black Seal' by Arthur Machen; 'The Willows' by Algernon Blackwood; 'Casting the Runes' by M. R. James; 'The Hall Bedroom' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Daemon Lover' by Shirley Jackson; 'Sticks' by Karl Edward Wagner; 'The Hospice' by Robert Aickman; 'The White Hands' by Mark Samuels. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.