Search Results: Ghosts & Horror Fiction from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

London: Simms and M'Intyre, 1852.. Hardcover. Good. First edition thus, original was in 1833. Good sextodecimo (16mo) hardcover with leather spine and brown boards without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing, heavy in spots`, along the edges of the boards and spine with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the panels. Corners have small holes in the binding. Also some light bumping to the upper edges of the panels. Panels have some light scuffing and scratching. Bookplate of the previous owner on the front pastedown endpaper. Name in pencil on the front free endpaper. Pages are a little browned but not brittle. Page edges are foxed. 284 pages. The binding is still tight and this copy is in nice shape for its age. An uncommon edition of Irish writer Banim's body of work, actually written by his older brother Michael. Best known with Michael for their O'Hara novels.

New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. Very good octavo hardcover in purple cloth binding in fair dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to top corners and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with chipping along edges and scuffing to covers. Dj's spine is heavily browned. Dj has large chip missing from upper corner of front cover, another large chip on heel of spine and smaller chips missing from head of spine. Page edges are lightly browned. 222 pages. The stories in this work are: 1. The Mahatma's Story, 2. Jones's Karma, 3. Heaven, 4. The Intercessor, 5. The Villa Desiree. One of two collections of supernatural fiction by this English suffragist and early feminist author, whose writing was praised by both Orwell and Agatha Christie. Supernatural fiction bibliographer E. F. Bleiler considered her an underrated author and contributor to the genre.