FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM by Macleod, Fiona [pseudonym of William Sharp] - 1896

Fiona Macleod is a pseudonym of William Sharp. First edition, first printing. Pictorial wrapper. This story was adapted for an episode of the Night Gallery television series. Published as part of Necronomicon's "H.P. Lovecraft's Favourite Horror Stories" series.
Condition: good condition with a clean cover. Small blemish to the upper right corner. The staple binding is square and solid

A Celtic Twilight heroic fantasy story by Fiona Macleod, the pseudonym for William Sharp. Copy #28/100 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum. Pictorial wrappers about 4" x 7" , string-tied, 103+ pages last numbered page is 102. Stiff card wraps. Oswald Train's bookplate. Fair with corner creasing and light staining to the oversize cover, missing most of the spine, and lacking the glassine Dust Wrapper and the Slipcase. bx94E

Duffield and Company. Used - Good. Good condition. Reprint. Edgeworn and soiled. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. (literature, folklore, anthology, william sharp)

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Softcover. Very Good. Second Mosher edition. Narrow octavo with yapped wrappers. Pictorial cream card covers. Foxing to the front cover, offsetting from binder's glue, very good. Small bookplate of Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood tipped in. Sara Bard Field was an American poet who worked on women's suffrage campaigns, and her husband, Wood, was an author and civil liberties advocate. "Old World Series" One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper.

New York: Duffield, 1910. Top edge gilt; internals fine and free of any marking or defect; VERY GOOD+ cloth copy with blind stamped front panel with a Celtic motif based on early Tree of Life design from the "Book of Kells". 391 pages. Octavo.

Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes & Colleagues. Good+ with no dust jacket; Corners bumped. Some foxing eps, half-title . page. 1" tear top spine.. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of Scottish tales. Nice decorative covers and endpapers. ; octavo; 294 pages .

Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. A Scottish version of an ancient Gaelic mythological tale, bound in "best French levant - crushed" by G.P. Putnam Sons / The Knickerbocker Press. "Old World Series." One of 925 copies on Van Gelder paper. OCLC: 1080800108 citing 3 copies at the Univ. of Alberta and Univ. of Windsor. 12mo, xii, [1]102pp, [2], title page printed in red and black, decorative chapter headers & footers, top edge gilt, marbled cloth endpapers, silk bookmark. Bound in full blue morocco, 5 raised bands at spine with title in gilt. Front hinge starting, uncut.

1894. Derby: printd by Harpur and Murray at the Moray Press in May 1894 and sold by Frank Murray at his Bookshops in Derby Leicester and Nottingham. Original flexible boards covered with glazed grey-green paper elaborately decorated in gilt. First Edition (trade issue -- there were also 75 numbered/signed copies), published as a volume in the printer's "Regent Library." This "romance of the Isles" is in fact the first book to bear the name "Fiona Macleod" -- by this Scottish writer of the 'Nineties whose true identity was so long in being discovered. From the very beginning a vein of mystic pantheism, born of these [Scottish Highland] mountains and his Gaelic blood, showed itself in the boy's nature. Three times he ran away from home to live in the mountain solitude, once spending an entire unforgettable summer in a gypsy encampment. [K&H] Sharp went on to write both under his own name and under the secret pseudonym of "Fiona Macleod"; until his death at the end of 1905, only his wife and a few… Read More

New York: Stone & Kimball, 1896. Softcover. Very Good. First American edition. 12mo. xiv, 333pp. Yellow pictorial wrappers. Lacking spine, which has been expertly rebacked with unprinted matching paper, front and rear covers have moderate wear and thin chipping to extremities, a good to very good copy. William Sharp, born in Paisley, Scotland in 1855, "wrote tales of magic, mystery, and peasant life in the Celtic Twilight mode using a female alias... " [The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, p. 514]; he also published books under his own name. Inscribed by Fiona MacLeod on the front flyleaf: "To Kenneth Macleod Black, with the friendly regard of Fiona MacLeod". Issued in the series "Stone's Paper Library