About this title: There! Can you imagine what would happen if one submitted the above as an outline or sketch of a possible plot to our really modern writers, the veritable Georgians? I don't think that they would be cross, or snap your head off, or wonder audibly what theatre put on transpontine melodrama in these days, or say it was interesting to find that Sue ...
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Edition: First American edition
Binding: Hardcover--cloth
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,, New York, New York:
Date Published: 1927.
Description: Good. Octavo, 9" tall, 221 pages, yellow cloth. A good reading copy, cover generally worn and moderately soiled, spine darkened, front hinge cracked but secure, binding solid, paper moderately yellowed. Lacking dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
Date Published: 1927
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-220 [221] [222-224: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original yellow cloth with printed paper label affixed to spine panel, top edge stained black, bottom edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A collection of essays and short stories, including crime and several occult tales. Day, The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, p. 56. Goldstone and Sweetser 34c. Top edge stain a bit faded, else a fine copy in near fine printed dust jacket with light wear at head and ... read more
Edition: First U.S. edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927
Description: Octavo. pp. [1-8] 1-220 [221] [222-224: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original yellow cloth, paper label to spine. Collection of articles and stories which first appeared in "The Graphic", with some fiction elements being mystery, crime and occult. A very good copy, with soiling to cloth, age darkening to spine, no dust jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition Private Press
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tartarus Press, UK
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:0978190578404
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 240 + vii pages. Limited to 350 copies. Contents: ' 'Introduction, by R.B. Russell, 'Note, by Arthur Machen, 'The Man With the Silver Staff', 'The Mystery of Mr Haddock', 'Ceremony on the Scaffold', 'Mr Lutterloh', 'A Lament for London's Lost Inns', 'Madame Rachel', 'Sir Benjamin The "Baron" ', 'Our Betty's Day Out', 'How The Rich Live', 'The Highbury Mystery', 'Deadly Nevergreen', 'Polite Correspondence', 'How Clubs Began', 'The Ingenious Mr Blee', ... read more
Edition: First Edition Private Press
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tartarus Press, UK
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:0978190578404
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Limited to 350 copies. 240 + vii pages. Contents: ' 'Introduction, by R.B. Russell, 'Note, by Arthur Machen, 'The Man With the Silver Staff', 'The Mystery of Mr Haddock', 'Ceremony on the Scaffold', 'Mr Lutterloh', 'A Lament for London's Lost Inns', 'Madame Rachel', 'Sir Benjamin The "Baron" ', 'Our Betty's Day Out', 'How The Rich Live', 'The Highbury Mystery', 'Deadly Nevergreen', 'Polite Correspondence', 'How Clubs Began', 'The Ingenious Mr Blee', ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: SECKER
Date Published: 1926
Description: Published by SECKER in 1926, 221 pages, 1st edition, hardback (no D/J), medium size, corners bumped, boards sunned and stained, page edges foxed, endpapers foxed, some pages foxed, boards creased to head & tail of spine, spine sunned & faded, brownish due to age of the book. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Edition: 1st American Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, NY
Date Published: 1927
Description: Very Good in Good + jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Boards are bright yellow with minor edge/corner rubbingl, DJ is browning with minor chipping, edge/ corner wear, Unmarked, intact, clean copy with. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1927
Description: Good+ in Good dust jacket; Slight foxing. DJ spine & top browned. Edgewear, 1" tear. Short stories and essays.; octavo; 221 pages pages. read more
Binding: First complete edition, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket,
Publisher: Tartarus Press, North Yorkshire
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781905784042ISBN:190578404X
Description: New. Ray Russell at Tartarus says: “ When Dreads and Drolls was first published in 1926 it contained twenty-nine articles reprinted from London's The Graphic. We have great pleasure in more than doubling that number by including all of his contributions from that magazine. To 'The Euston Square Mystery', 'The Adventure of the Long-Lost Brother' and others we have been able to add 'A Castle in Celtic Myths', 'A Pretty Parricide', 'One Night When I Was Frightened' and many more. ” ... read more
Description: Very Good. This books is from new old stock, meaning it has never been used but may have wear from long term storage. May be a reprint. ISBN: 0836906489. read more
Edition: First Trade Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Martin Secker, London
Date Published: 1926
Description: Very Good, nice and clean in Very Good, tiny chips jacket. 8vo. 220 pages. Most of the uncut pages are still unopened. A collection of short pieces by a master of fantasy and horror. read more
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