The Ghoul

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. First Edition. First Edition. Rare in jacket. A pulp thriller about a criminal mastermind, known only as The Ghoul, who has plunged London into a crime wave. Basis for the 1933 film of the same name, directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Boris Karloff. The film added mystical elements to the story… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A mystery novel and basis for a Boris Karloff film. This is an early American reprint. A very good copy in a good-only dust jacket with long tears at the spine. There is also a torn off corner on the front flap affecting a couple of words of text.… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Early reprint. Light offsetting on rear endpapers with tape on front fly, binding slightly cocked with faint foxing on page edges thus very good in a fair dust jacket with a detached (but present) front flap, chips and tears, and several interior tape repairs. The basis for the 1933… Read more about this item

W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 218 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with red lettering over blue cloth. Front endpaper missing. Half title page creased. Mild brown staining and finger smudging to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to… Read more about this item

The Ghoul by Frank King first American edition hardcover Publisher: G. Howard Watt, 1929 Condition: Very Good

Geoffrey Bles. London. N.d. (c.1928). Early reprint of first edition. No DW. 287pp. Original orange cloth, sl. soiled with crumpled head and tail of spine. Endpapers browned and foxed, margins of pages also browned o/w a sound copy of a very scarce horror classic that was later made into a film starring Boris Karloff.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. (London: Geoffrey Bles n.d. [1928]). Note: the First UK Edition of this title is un-dated. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering to the front board and spine. Usual browning/foxing to the (original) end-papers and page toning (due to the poor quality of paper used). Slight softening… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. This Original 1929 Printing is clean, solid and in great shape! This is a hardcover book with 308 pages. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. There is a bookplate and date written on the first end paper. The fore edge shows some light soiling. The… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1929: Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Book. VG-. Hardcover. 1929 Red cloth hardcover. Tight copy w/two tiny chips to cloth mid-spine, eight small circular stains front cover, lower corner front cover dented and lightly creased, light staining to rear cover, two inked names inside front cover, faint creasing to first dozen pages, contents very clean. VG-/no dj.