Resultados de búsqueda: the stratagem and other stories de crowley aleister

A K Pr Distribution, January 1990. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Brighton: Temple Press, 1990. 2nd edition. Very Good. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 108pp., Ex-library with usual stamps & labels o/w nice copy. Contains previously unpublished material

Brighton: Temple Press Limited, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition thus with some previously unpublished material. Octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Four of Crowley's short stories, including one previously unpublished and representing some of his earliest work.

Brighton, England: Temple Press Ltd, 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Total 333. First edition/Printing thus - reprint of 1929 edition with a new story and forward by Keith Rhys added. Book and jacket (in a protector) each in As New, unread condition! Uncommon. A sharp copy.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The Mandrake Press, London, 1929, first printing,. 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, small 8vo, 139pp, pages slightly browned throughout, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions or ownership marks, binding and hinges tight, snakeskin-patterned boards and black quarter-cloth, board edges rubbed, paper spine title label browned; Good condition / no dustwrapper .

London: The Mandrake Press. [1929]. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original gold and black snakeskin effect boards with titles in black on a white paper label to the spine. No dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the boards slightly bowed, with some rubbing at the extremities. The contents, with a small stain to the text block fore-edge and some offsetting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout. A collection of three short stories: The Stratagem; The Testament of Magdalen Blair; His Secret Sin. The middle story "a description of after death experiences as the brain decays" is noted in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural as "one of the most horrible stories ever written" and in The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Bleiler) "a remarkable achievement, as one of the most unpleasant stories in the genre". Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on… Leer más

London: Mandrake Press. [1929]. A collection of three stories, issued in the series "Mandrake Booklets." Owner name, address, and 1930 date on the front flyleaf. Near fine in a very good, spine-darkened dust jacket. Rare: we find only one copy listed in OCLC WorldCat. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

London: The Mandrake Press, [1929]. First edition. Some darkening to end papers, some foxing to fore edges, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the lower rear panel, slight darkening to the spine panel. (28554). Small octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-139 [140: printer's imprint], original decorated gold and black boards with black cloth spine panel, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. Crowley's only collection of short fiction. Includes "The Testament of Magdalen Blair," "a description of after death experiences as the brain decays ... one of the most horrible stories ever written." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 106-07. "... a remarkable achievement, as one of the most unpleasant stories in the genre." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 457. "... spectacularly nasty-minded ..." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-56. Bleiler (1978), p. 53. Reginald 03666.