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Herald of the Hidden and Other Stories.
by Valentine, Mark
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leyburn; Tartarus Press, 2013., 2013. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION: Number 23 in an edition Limited to 400 copies only. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 230. Publishers' deep royal blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board and tower motif blocked in gilt to upper board; ribbon placemarker; unclipped cream pictorial dust-jacket. Signed by the Author, without dedication, to title page. From the library of collector Malcolm Henderson, with his bookplate loosely inserted. A Fine copy in like jacket. Ten adventures of occult detective Ralph Tyler, three of which are previously unpublished, including two written especially for this collection, and all previously uncollected in book form. Inspired by earlier detectives such as Carnacki the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson and Algernon Blackwood's John Silence, Tyler is from an obscure corner of England and unlike the others has no private source of income or any special esoteric knowledge. Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11057
- Title
- Herald of the Hidden and Other Stories.
- Author
- Valentine, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leyburn; Tartarus Press, 2013.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Fiction
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About the Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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