Short Stories from Shellhouse Books

PS Publishing Ltd, 2005. 1st edition. Card covers as issued in very fine condition, extremely clean pages, in all a very nice copy indeed of the first softcover impression of the author's stories, mostly horror and supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection and the Britsh Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

Macdonald, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine black cloth, silver spine lettering, nearly 600 pages in square binding, endpapers clean, pages also very clean, smidgen of light foxing down some leaves on the front text block. In a fine dustjacket, not price-clipped. Four long short stories, the first being the most famous, as the basis for the film The Shawshank… Saber más sobre este artículo

George Newnes Ltd, 1919. 1st edition. Hardcover. Red decorated boards as originally issued, slightly paled spine, hinges strengthened, pages clean if a little tinged on account of the paper used, and altogether a very nice copy of the book in which Jeeves made his first appearance, in four of the eight stories. Very scarce thus.

Bodley Head, 1972. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket, spine not faded, not price-clipped, an exceptionally nice copy of the author's second collection of short stories.

Doubleday, 2015. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very fine in very fine dustjacket. Signed by the author. Very nice copy of her first collection of short stories.

Clarion Press, 1997. 1st edition. Hardcover. One of 149 cased copies only. Very fine grey boards, five full-page line illustrations in blue by Adrian Wisniewski. Signed by the artist, with two copies of an additional loose illustrated print which is also signed by him. George Mackay Brown died before he could sign the book and it was published posthumously.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Clarion Press, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Mint in mint pictorial boards. Signed by the author and artist. One of a limited cased edition of 149 copies. A scarce and beautiful volume. Also with the interesting Clarion Newsletter issued to accompany the book's publication.

Clarion Press, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. Three full-page illustrations in two-colour line by Sonia Lawson. Fine in pictorial boards as issued. Signed by the author and artist. One of a limited cased edition of 249 copies with two copies of an additional loose illustrated print signed by the artist. Also with the Clarion Newsletter issued to accompany the book's… Saber más sobre este artículo

Clarion Press, 1997. 1st edition. In fine grey pictorial covers, five full-page line illustrations in blue by Adrian Wisnieswki. One of only 250 such copies, published just after the author's death. With an additional, loose, signed print by the artist.

Constable, 1924. 1st edition. Hardcover. Second issue, with First Published 1924 on the verso of the title page. A very good book, boards nice and bright, pages clean, a small label erasure on front pastedown, and one small fox mark to front text block. The dustwrapper bears some neat restoration in a few places, some darkening to the spine… Saber más sobre este artículo

Clarion Press, 1997. 1st edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in full colour by George Large. One of a limited cased edition of 149 copies signed by the author and artist, with two copies of an additional loose colour print from the book signed by the artist.

Clarion Press, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. Illustrated in two colours by George Mackie. Signed by the author, one of a limited cased edition of 149 copies, with an additional loose illustrated print signed by the artist.

Granta Books, 2000. 1st edition. Softcover. Near fine (tiny nick at head of spine) in pictorial wraps as issued. The author's second collection of short stories, about various types of love which bind families together.