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Books for Libraries Press, 1971. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . Light wear; some discoloring to the cloth, pages toned; a good sound binding. No jacket. Includes Miracle in Suburbia; Yesterday Street; Funspot; Uncle Ezekiel's Long Sight; The Horrible God; Father and Son; Johnson Looked Back; Two Gentlemen; The Black Courtyard; The Gracious Ghosts; Jack Wapping; One Hundred Pounds; The Man Who Lost His Head; Murder Under the Crooked Spire; The Lonely Inn; The Watcher; Events at Wayless Wagtail; The Hollow Man. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 179847. .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Night-Pieces (Valancourt 20th Century Classics).

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

D Appleton-Century Company, Inc. Hardcover. Good. Used good.

Ashcroft, B.C.: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing, limited edition of six hundred copies by the Ash-Tree Press. Pages are clean, markings from the previous owners. Binding is square and tight. Burgundy cloth boards are like new and clean. Text block is clean. DJ is clean and bright.

New York City: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 309.,8vo,,Bound in original, slightly iridescent, silver cloth.,First published in England by Constable in 1935, this is the first American edition, with the necessary (1) at the end of the text. Edges of boards a bit soiled. Tips rounded. Light blue endpapers clean and tight. Contents clean, bright and tight. In good plus, to very good, condition. No dust jacket.

ASHCROFT, BRITISH COLUMBIA: ASH-TREE PRESS. FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 2001. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. EDITED BY JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON . BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. .

Ashcroft: Ash-Tree Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. "My encounters in this city of all souls have been amusing, stimulating, ludicrous, beautiful, disturbing, and queer" - Thus wrote Thomas Bruke (1886-1945) , referingto the people, places, and things of London, or more specifically the area of London known as Limehouse. Edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and limited to 600 copies. It includes Burke's short story Limehouse Nights. Both the book and DJ is as new. Jacket now with a brodart cover. We have a wide selection of Ash-Tree books, most in Fine - As New condition and happy to offer discount and/or free shipping for multiple purchases; 194 pages .

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (11427). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 600 copies. Collects twenty tales by Burke, from NIGHT PIECES and other collections, with a long, interesting introduction by Salmonson, and a profile by his publisher "Grant Richards on Thomas Burke." Reproduces (in black and white) the vivid dust jackets of many of his, now scarce, first editions. Burke first gained fame for his stories of London's Chinatown district, known as Limehouse.

D. Appleton-Century Co. Collectible - Acceptable. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. 1st edition. Sm 8vo Hardcover. 309pp. Near Very Good book and no dust jacket. Heavy edgewear. Light soiling to the boards. Spine and pages toned. Bookplate to the front pastedown. (fiction short stories anthology) Inquire if you need further information.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Used; Very Good. 5-E-33 Books for Libraries Press 1971 Hardcover. No dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers have light wear. Book Condition; Very Good . 1971. HARDCOVER.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Eighteen stories set in the weird and seedy streets of London. First US edition (with "(I)" on the last text page). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with minor wear along the edges. Previous owner's signature on the front free endpaper.

New York: Appleton, 1936 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Bookplate. Slight foxing to fore-edge. A very good, bright copy in very good dust jacket. Jacket has an internal tape repair near the head of the spine and a faint internal dark stain, but is bright and not price-clipped.

appleton century, first edition 1936. near fine in an almost near fine jacket, a little edge and corner bumping, with very tiny corner chips, some spine rubbing

London: Constable and Co. Limited. 1935. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with red titles to the spine, in the Hookway Cowles illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge red. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a tiny pin hole puncture to the edge of the spine. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very good lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has a tiny chip to the bottom of the front panel at the spine fold and some internal tape repairs to a few closed tears. Not price-clipped (7/6 net to the front flap). An attractive example A notable collection of Bleiler and Hubin listed weird and criminous tales. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

London: Constable, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Bound in turquoise-green cloth with red lettering to the spine. Red top edge. VG indeed in like 7/6 net D/W rubbed to the corners and with a little, very mild chipping to the head of the spine just affecting the very top of the IG of NIGHT. Superb period D/W art by Hookway Cowles (reminiscent of Chagall). A collection of eighteen weird and criminous stories set in the dark back streets, shadowy courts and small secret houses of London. Uncommon.

London: Constable & Co Limited, [1935]. First edition. Some light foxing to fore-edge of pages, light bump to lower front corner, a fine copy in bright, nearly fine price clipped four-color pictorial dust jacket with foxing to the verso of spine with some bleed through, mild edge wear, scratch to the rear panel, rectangular price sticker affixed to base of spine panel. Scarce in dust jacket. (25251). Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-311 [312], original red cloth, spine stamped in black. Collection of eighteen weird and criminous stories set in shadowy London. Burke's core collection of horror stories, distinctive for their original treatments of familiar themes. Best include doppelganger story "Johnson Looked Back" and zombie story "The Hollow Man." "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 309. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 15. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-41. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-50. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 121. Bleiler (1978), p. 35.… Read More