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Widdershins
by Oliver Onions
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$378.68NZ$340.82
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Martin Secker , 1911. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5" . None . The second impression of this sought-after anthology of ghost stories by Oliver Onions, scarce in all editions. The first edition, second impression of this work, published a month after the first in variant cloth binding. A widely known collection of ghost stories by Oliver Onions. This anthology notably features the psychological horror novella 'The Beckoning Fair One,' known as one of the best tales in its genre; and the story 'Rooum' , concerned with an engineer haunted by a mysterious entity.Other stories generally deal with the connection between creativity and insanity, and the concept of time and identity shifts. With half title and two leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally a trifle worn with shelf wear, chipped to head and tail of spine and extremities, front joint starting, boards holding firm; headband may detach with further handling. Front endpapers excised. Internally, firmly bound. Light minor spotting scattered to first few leaves. Pages otherwise bright and clean. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 843A79
- Title
- Widdershins
- Author
- Oliver Onions
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Martin Secker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- ghost stories oliver onions early impressions oliver onions
Terms of Sale
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Books are sent on approval and may be returned in like condition for any reason within 14 days of receipt. Responsibility of return to be with the purchaser.
About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
Welcome to Rooke Books Antiquarian Bookseller
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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