Night Voices by Robert Aickman - 2013

London,: Gollancz, 1985. not stated. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VG+++ in a VG DJ.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket--bright and clean inside and out. A beautiful copy.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 185p. Beautiful First Edition of this posthumously published anthology. Bound in full black cloth with spine titles in gilt. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£8.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.

Tartarus Press: North Yorkshire, 2015. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Hardcover. The last, posthumously published collection of stories by Aickman, first published by Victor Gollancz in 1985. The Tartarus Press first printing of 2013 reprinted those five long stories plus a lot more, beginning with a new introduction by Barry Humphries. Also included was the weird novella THE MODEL (posthumously published in 1987), plus Aickman's ''An Essay'' (written on winning the first World Fantasy Award in 1976), additionally this volume includes all seven of his Introductions to the seven volumes in The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories series which he edited: and finally the six-page ''Robert Remembered'', in which author Ramsey Campbell concludes this volume with memories of his friend. However this Tartarus Press 2nd printing of 2015 also now includes a further two stories, ''The Coffin House'' and ''The Fully-Conducted Tour'', both taken from the 2013 Tartarus Press Aickman collection The Strangers… Read More

Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2013. First printing, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket,. Leyburn: Tartarus Press:, 2013. First printing, Hardcover, Limited, New in dust jacket, 316 pp.<br/> This edition limited to 350 copies. "Night Voices is the last, posthumously published collection of 'strange stories' by Robert Aickman (1914-1981). On the jacket of the first edition (1985) Aickman is quoted as saying, rather disingenuously: 'I do not regard my work as fantasy. I try to depict the world as I see it.' As Barry Humphries explains in his Introduction to this collection, Aickman's fiction '. . . captures the very texture of a bad dream which may start, as such dreams do, beguilingly; until the dreamer (and reader) feels the first presentiment of encroaching nightmare-and cannot wake.' Aickman also claimed that 'the true ghost story is akin to poetry'. In blurring genres and literary forms, the fantastic is present in his work; never more so than in his… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. First edition. Upper corners bruised, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. (31740). Octavo, boards. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., Wraps with dust-jacket. 185p. Beautiful First Edition, Advanced Uncorrected Proof of this posthumously published anthology. Bound in full black cloth with spine titles in gilt. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (£8.95), has a touch of wear at the top edge but is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectable copy and quite scarce.

Gollancz, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean and unmarked, almost like new. First edition, near fine DJ in Mylar.

Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2013. Second Tartarus Press Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Dust Jacket. Octavo. Bound in red linson boards, spine and front panel titled in gilt and silver, black endpapers, head-and tail-bands, red satin bookmark. Dust jacket Illustration by Stephen J. Clark. 316pp. The first Tartarus printing was issued in 2012 and was limited to 350 copies; this is the second Tartarus Press Edition issued in 2013. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, price corner intact. ¶ Collects six fantastic & supernatural stories plus the novella "The Model", along with the Introductions penned by Aickman for the 8 Fontana Book of Great Ghost stories which he edited, an Essay, and a memoir "Robert Remembered" by Ramsay Campbell. Foreword by Barry Humphries. An expanded edition from that published by Gollancz in 1985.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168724) (29538). Octavo, boards. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5.