50 Years of Ghost Stories
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. N.d., [ca. 1935]. Orig. green cloth, black titling and skeleton vignettes to front board and spine. 702 pp. Spine cocked. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Staining to fore edge. Interior is uniformly age toned. Small pencil notations to table of contents. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped to extremities, age toned, lightly soiled. This splendid collection of the greatest ghost stories will appeal to thousands. The most famous creators of mysterious phenomena and queer spirits are all here, and include Sir Walter Scott, Bram Stoker, Shane Leslie, Walter de la Mare, Ambrose Bierce, Oliver Onions, and many other well-known writers, who have kept the world from their sleep with haunting fears. They are all here in one volume to thrill and horrify you, and to do it so well and so gracefully that you cannot refrain from dipping deeper into this grand and eerie volume. 0.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009594
- Title
- 50 Years of Ghost Stories
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- ghosts, ghost stories, fiction, supernatural fiction, horror, short stories, Sheridan Le Fanu, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Sir Walter Scott, Walter De La Mare, Sir Edward Bulwar-Lytton, Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Oliver Onions, Ex-Private X,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror and Speculative Fiction;
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All prices listed in Canadian dollars. We guarantee that all items are properly packaged and handled with care. Please allow one to two business days for your order to be shipped. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All sales will be shipped with a tracking number for your convenience.
About the Seller
Minotavros Books
Biblio member since 2018
Whitby, Ontario
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Glossary
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...