Hell House – The 25th Anniversary Edition by Matheson, Richard (Dean Koontz and Richard Christian Matheson) - 1996

Bath, England: Firecrest, Chivers Press, 1985 A beautiful signed (not inscribed) copy of the author's first book. First hardback edition. The dust jacket is bright and flawless. The pages of the book are slightly toned around the edges but that is not unusual considering the type of paper used. All books are bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy shipping container when mailed.

Fine minus book with slight shelf wear and touch of light soiling to tiny area front page edges. Oversize book approximately 11 inches tall by 7 inches wide. This is the lettered limited edition, J of 26 copies, bound in very dark blue leather with no jacket, as issued. Publisher's envelop lettered J laid-in with letter stating – Dear Collector, Contrary to our colophon page, this lettered state of Dark Rivers Of The Heart has been hand bound by Claudia Cohen in full Morocco leather with Fabriano Roma end-sheets and stamped in 22-carat gold. Enjoy, Charnel House. Signed on the limitation page by Koontz and Gervais. This copy housed in a Fine, blue drop-lid box custom made by bookbinder Mark Andersson, Panther Peak Bindery, Tucson. One of his business cards is laid-in.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First UK printing. Illustrations by John Lawrence. Olive green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, Sunned at the backstrip and along the edges of the covers, lightly toned block. Pushed at the tail but the corners are sharp and the book fairly tight and square. Free from owner names etc, a nice clean copy, VG. The dustjacket is price-clipped and rubbed at the corners. Slightly colour-faded at spine, a few little scrapes to the laminate along the top edge. VG dustjacket.

Ash-Tree. First Edition. hardcover. Roden, Barbara and Christopher [eds] : At Ease with the Dead. Ashcroft (BC, CAN) : Ash-Tree Press, 2007. First edition, limited edition, one of 400 copies. ISBN 978-1553100942. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.375"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering imprinted to spine. Glossy color pictorial dj, illustration by Jason Van Hollander. Plain white endpapers. Viii pp prelim material, 375 numbered pp, plus one blank. Editors' introduction, thirty tales, sources, bios acknowledgements. Condition notes: A lovely, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Light wear to dj, a faint smudge to tail edge, a few faint scratches to front board. Else unmarked. A handsomely bound anthology of contemporary storytellers of the macabre. Of this collection, the dustwrapper says "In these tales, the dead and the living meet in landscapes that are at once familiar, yet terrifyingly strange, where ordinary rules do not apply, and where the dead are sometimes the fortunate ones."… Read More

The Pool of the Black One, Howard, Robert E.; illustrated by Hank Jankus. Published by Donald M. Grant, West Kingston, RI, USA, 1986. Volume 10 in Grant's Conan series. Small 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 134pp. with six color plates, four double full page and three full page and black and white illustrations. Quarter burgundy over grey boards with gilt spine titles; grey paper jacket with small wood-cut illustration to front; housed in a clear acetate dustjacket. In fine, unread condition. A very scarce edition. Volumes 1-7 in this deluxe series is also available.

Bath, England: Firecrest, Chivers Press, 1985 A beautiful signed (not inscribed) copy of the author's first book. First hardback edition. The dust jacket is bright and flawless. The pages of the book are slightly toned around the edges but that is not unusual considering the type of paper used. All books are bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy shipping container when mailed.

Fine minus book with slight shelf wear and touch of light soiling to tiny area front page edges. Oversize book approximately 11 inches tall by 7 inches wide. This is the lettered limited edition, J of 26 copies, bound in very dark blue leather with no jacket, as issued. Publisher's envelop lettered J laid-in with letter stating – Dear Collector, Contrary to our colophon page, this lettered state of Dark Rivers Of The Heart has been hand bound by Claudia Cohen in full Morocco leather with Fabriano Roma end-sheets and stamped in 22-carat gold. Enjoy, Charnel House. Signed on the limitation page by Koontz and Gervais. This copy housed in a Fine, blue drop-lid box custom made by bookbinder Mark Andersson, Panther Peak Bindery, Tucson. One of his business cards is laid-in.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First UK printing. Illustrations by John Lawrence. Olive green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, Sunned at the backstrip and along the edges of the covers, lightly toned block. Pushed at the tail but the corners are sharp and the book fairly tight and square. Free from owner names etc, a nice clean copy, VG. The dustjacket is price-clipped and rubbed at the corners. Slightly colour-faded at spine, a few little scrapes to the laminate along the top edge. VG dustjacket.

Ash-Tree. First Edition. hardcover. Roden, Barbara and Christopher [eds] : At Ease with the Dead. Ashcroft (BC, CAN) : Ash-Tree Press, 2007. First edition, limited edition, one of 400 copies. ISBN 978-1553100942. Size is octavo (8vo), 9.375"/24cm h. Bound in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering imprinted to spine. Glossy color pictorial dj, illustration by Jason Van Hollander. Plain white endpapers. Viii pp prelim material, 375 numbered pp, plus one blank. Editors' introduction, thirty tales, sources, bios acknowledgements. Condition notes: A lovely, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Light wear to dj, a faint smudge to tail edge, a few faint scratches to front board. Else unmarked. A handsomely bound anthology of contemporary storytellers of the macabre. Of this collection, the dustwrapper says "In these tales, the dead and the living meet in landscapes that are at once familiar, yet terrifyingly strange, where ordinary rules do not apply, and where the dead are sometimes the fortunate ones."… Read More

The Pool of the Black One, Howard, Robert E.; illustrated by Hank Jankus. Published by Donald M. Grant, West Kingston, RI, USA, 1986. Volume 10 in Grant's Conan series. Small 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 134pp. with six color plates, four double full page and three full page and black and white illustrations. Quarter burgundy over grey boards with gilt spine titles; grey paper jacket with small wood-cut illustration to front; housed in a clear acetate dustjacket. In fine, unread condition. A very scarce edition. Volumes 1-7 in this deluxe series is also available.