Strange and Supernatural

Strange and Supernatural
CALLUM JAMES BOOKS
November 2013
Welcome...
...to this catalogue of books about the strange and the
supernatural. This is the third such list we have issued this
year and this one continues to be strong on anthologies
and short story collections. The ‘strange’ part of the title is
probably better served in this list than in the previous two
given that, as well as a full contingent of supernatural fiction
there is also a seasoning of science fiction and a number of
books which don’t quite fit either genre completely.
We have also included in this list a small section of nonfiction books, that is, books dealing in relevant subjects
(ghosts, ritual, the paranormal) from a believers point of
view. And at the end of the list you will find a substantial
number of periodicals being sold sometimes singly and
sometimes as a set.
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with our catalogues and if you have a freind you feel might
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celebrating Arkham Houses’
contribution to the field. Fine
in a fine jacket. £20
1. AICKMAN, Robert. Tales
of Love and Death. Gollancz,
London: 1977. An exlibrary copy with the usual
treatments and so only good
in a very good jacket. £40
2. AICKMAN, Robert.
Painted Devils. Strange Stories.
Charles Scribner’s Sons, New
York: 1979. Nine stories. Very
good in a very good jacket
with a little shelfwear to the
edges. £30
3. ANON (ed.) Ghost Stories
and Other Queer Tales. C.
Arthur Pearson, London: n.d.
[1931]. A selection of sixteen
tales culled from the pages of
Novel Magazine and therefore
has some authors and tales
not often anthologised
elsewhere. Very good with
a dusty top edge in a good
complete jacket that has some
nicks, chips, short tears and
soiling all over. Nonetheless,
scarce in a jacket. £80
4. [ARKHAM HOUSE]
Arkham’s Masters of Horror.
A 60th Anniversary Anthology
Retrospective of the First 30
Years of Arkham House. Edited
and with historical notes by
Peter Ruber. Arkham House,
Sauk City: 2000. A fascinating
mixture of fact and fiction
5. BAKER, A. P. A College
Mystery. The Story of the
Apparition in the Fellows’ Garden
at Christ’s College, Cambridge. W.
Heffer & Sons, Cambridge:
1918. Blue cloth in very good
condition. £25
6. BENSON, E. F. Across the
Stream. John Murray, London:
1919. The protagonist is
haunted by the spirit of his
dead brother which, given the
state of the relationships in
the Benson household, must
provide ample material for
playing psychoanalyst with
the author. Green cloth is just
a little rubbed here and there.
Very good. £25
9.
7. BENSON, E. F. Spook
Stories. Hutchinson’s
Booklovers’ Library, London:
n.d. A straightforward
secondhand copy in
somewhat dulled oatmeal
cloth. £12
8. BLACKBURN, John.
A Scent of New Mown Hay.
Secker and Warburg, London:
1958. Good with foxing to
the page edges in a priceclipped jacket that has some
browning and a few short
closed tears. Scarce in a jacket
in any condition. £75
BLACKBURN, John. A Sour
Apple Tree. Secker & Warburg,
London: 1958. Very good in
a good, complete jacket with
some shelfwear to the edges.
£25
10. BLACKBURN, John.
Broken Boy. Secker &
Warburg, London: 1959. An
occult thriller of spies and
cults. Very good in a good
jacket that is rubbed at all
edges and folds. £20
11. BLACKBURN, John. A
Ring of Roses. Jonathan Cape,
London: 1965. Very good
in a very good jacket, lightly
tanned at the spine. £22
12. BLACKBURN, John.
Mister Brown’s Bodies. Jonathan
Cape, London: 1975. Fine in
a very good jacket. £10
13. BLACKBURN, John.
A Book of the Dead. Robert
Hale, London: 1984. A
much underrated writer of
strange fiction, sometimes
crossing a boundary away
from the supernatural into
the realm of the thriller. This
title however, firmly in the
supernatural camp and begins
18. BOWEN, Marjorie.
Kecksies and other Twilight Tales.
Arkham House, Sauk City:
1976. Fine in a fine jacket.
£10
with a depiction of The Ring
at work after a book auction.
Very good in a very good,
lightly rubbed but complete
dust jacket. £75
14. BLACKWOOD,
Algernon. A Prisoner in
Fairyland. Macmillan, London:
1920. Good with some light
bumps at the ends of the
spine and some light marks.
£10
16. BOOTHBY, Guy. The
Curse of the Snake. F. V. White
& Co., London: 1902. Very
good with light fading on the
backstrip and at the top of
the bevelled boards. £65
19. BROSTER, D. K. A
Fire of Driftwood. William
Heinemann, London: 1932.
The cloth backstrip is a little
soiled but overall still very
good. £25
17. BOWEN, Elizabeth. The
Demon Lover and other stories.
Jonathan Cape, London:
1945. Beige cloth in good
condition. £8
15. BLOCH, Robert. Flower
from the Moon and Other
Lunaries. Arkham House,
Sauk City: 1998. Twenty
stories in this posthumous
collection. Fine in a fine
jacket. £15
20. BUCHAN, John and
edited by Peter Haining. The
Best Supernatural Fiction of John
Buchan. Robert Hale, London:
1991. Very good in a very
good jacket with just a little
light shelfwear. £35
next calendar year. Very good
in a very good, lightly rubbed
jacket. £25
21. BURNETT, Frances
Hodgson. In The Closed Room.
Hodder and Stoughton,
London: 1914. Illustrated
with eight full-colour plates
by Jessie Wilcox Smith.
Pictorial boards. Very good.
£20
22. BURRAGE, A. M. Between
the Minute and the Hour. Stories
of the Unseen. Herbert Jenkins,
London: 1967. A posthumous
collection of strange and
supernatural stories. Very
good in a somewhat rubbed
jacket. £45
23. CAMPBELL, Ramsey.
Alone With the Horrors.
The Great Short Fiction of
Ramsey Campbell 19611991. Illustrated with
photomontages by J. K.
Potter. Thirty-nine stories.
Arkham House, Sauk City:
1993. Fine in a fine jacket.
£15
24. COPPER, Basil. The Great
White Space. Robert Hale/St
Martin’s Press, London/New
York: 1974/5. The base of
the jacket spine, sports a label
covering ‘Robert Hale’ and
replacing it with ‘St Martin’s
Press’ and their logo. The
UK first edition was, in part,
exported to the States and
reissued a few weeks later,
which happened to be in the
25. COPPER, Basil. The
Exploits of Solar Pons. Fedogan
& Bremmer, Minneapolis:
1993. SIGNED by the author
on the half-title but not one
of the signed limited edition.
Fine in a fine jacket. £25
26. [CREEPS] The “Creeps”
Omnibus Containing Creeps,
Shudders and Shivers in One
Volume. Philip Allan, London:
1935. Yellow cloth boards
are spotted and rubbed and
a little darkened at the spine.
Good. £80
27. DALE, Harrison. Great
Ghost Stories. Collected and
edited with an introduction on the
ghost story. Herbert Jenkins,
London: 1930. A solid
collection with a Victorian
emphasis and a good mixture
of the classic and the less well
known. Good in green cloth
with a little uneven fading on
the upper board. £10
28. DALE, Harrison. More
Great Ghost Stories. Collected
and edited with an introduction
on the ghost story. Herbert
Jenkins, London: 1932. A
second collection, this time
with an introduction titled,
‘Anthologists and Other
Ghouls’. Very good in green
cloth. £22
Arkham House, Sauk
City: 1945. A collection of
poetry which ranges from
Robert Burns and Edgar
Allen Poe through to then
modern practitioners such as
Lovecrafy and Bellnap Long.
Very good in a very good
jacket that has a few nicks
and short, closed tears with a
couple of very small losses at
the edge. £120
29. DAVENPORT, Basil
(ed.) Ghostly Tales to be Told.
A Collection of Stories from
the Great Masters arranged for
Reading and Telling Aloud.
Faber & Faber, London:
1954. Second impression.
Contains an introduction
on the art of telling ghost
stories with some very
practical suggestions as well
as a paragraph of notes at
the head of each of the 16
stories. A little foxed at the
top edge but otherwise very
good in a very good jacket.
£10
30. DERLETH, August
(ed.) Dark of the Moon. Poems
of Fantasy and the Macabre.
31. DERLETH, August (ed.)
Strange Ports of Call. Pellegrini
& Cudahy, New York: 1949.
Second printing. Inscribed
“The best of science-fiction,
cordially, August Derleth” on
the endpaper. Very good in a
very good jacket with a little
browning to the spine. £25
couple of millimetres loss at
the head of the spine. £30
32. DERLETH, August (ed.)
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight.
New Poems of the Macabre.
Arkham House, Sauk
City: 1961. Intended as a
companion volume to Dark
of the Moon, this collection
contains poetry from the
1930s to the 1950s. Very
good in a very good jacket
which has faded a little at the
spine. £50
33. DERLETH, August
(ed.). Dark Mind, Dark Heart.
Arkham House, Sauk City:
1967. A collection billed as
‘old fashioned’ horror. Very
good in a very good jacket
that has a little rubbing at
the edges of the spine and a
34. DERLETH, August. The
Solar Pons Omnibus. Arkham
House, Sauk City: 1982. Very
good in two volumes in a
very good, lightly bumped
slip case. £100
35. DUNSANY, Lord. The
Sword of Welleran. George
Allen, London: 1908.
Illustrated with full-page
b/w plates by Sidney Syme.
Backstrip a little darkened
and bumped top and bottom.
Light occasional foxing which
doesn’t affect the illustrations
which are printed on a
different paper. £60
36. DUNSANY, Lord.
Talks With Dean Spanley.
Heinemann, London: 1936.
Frontispiece by Sydney
Sime. Very nicely bound in
quarter dark-blue leather
with patterned paper board
(possibly by Enid Marx).
A presentation inscription
is bound in (not from the
author), and could be excised
easily if desired. Some foxing
to the prelims and page
edges. Very good. £55
37. ELLIN, Stanley. Mystery
Stories. Simon & Schuster,
New York: 1956. Good
with rubbing to the top and
bottom of the backstrip. £8
38. ELLISON, Harlan (ed.)
Dangerous Visions 1. David
Bruce & Watson, London:
1967. A groundbreaking
anthology of science fiction.
Very good in a very good
jacket. £20
39. ELLISON, Harlan.
Love Ain’t Nothing but Sex
Misspelled. Trident Press, New
York: 1968. Very good in a
very good jacket with some
shelfwear to the edges. £10
40. ERKMANN, Emile and
Alexandre Chatrian. The Best
Tales of Terror edited by Hugh
Lamb. SIGNED by the editor
on the title page. Very good
in a very good jacket. £20
41. FANU, J. S. Le. The House
by the Churchyard. James Duffy,
Dublin: 1904. A scarce
edition in green boards with
gilt decoration to the front.
Lightly bumped top and
bottom of the backstrip and
front hinge just starting. £120
42. GRANT, Charles L. Tales
from the Nightside. Arkham
House, Sauk City: 1981. Fine
in a fine jacket. £12
43. GRESHAM, William
Lindsay. Nightmare Alley.
Heinemann, London: 1947.
First UK edition. A macabre,
some say ‘noir’ novel about
carnies. Blue cloth is a little
rubbed and half-title is just
pulling away from title page.
Produced under wartime
austerity and overall still in
good condition. £30
44. HAINING, Peter (ed).
The Magicians. Occult Stories.
Peter Owen, London: 1972.
A fascinating mixture of
the purely fictional with
more documentary or
autobiographical writing. Very
good in a very good jacket.
£25
45. HARTLEY, L. P. The
Travelling Grave and Other
Stories. Peter Owen, London:
1951. A very good copy in
black cloth and no jacket. £8
46. HEARD, Gerald. The
Black Fox. A Novel of the
‘Seventies’. Cassell, London:
1950. A review copy with
the review slip from Cassell
still laid in. Very good in a
good jacket that is somewhat
rubbed and chipped but
without loss. £30
47. HEARD, H. F. The Lost
Cavern and other tales of the
fantastic. The Vanguard Press,
New York: 1948. Four long,
short stories. Very good in a
very good jacket that has just
a couple of nicks and a short
closed edge tear. £10
48. HERBERT, Frank. Dune.
Gollancz, London: 1966.
First UK edition. A curious
copy which has the cover of
the Ace paperback edition
(front, spine and back) pasted
onto the front endpapers and
on the rear endpapers, has a
section from what looks like
it was once the publisher’s
wraparound band, containing
quotes about the book from
Arthur C Clarke and Damon
Knight. Very good in a
good jacket that has some
shelfwear, a couple of short
closed tears and two losses
at the top of the front panel.
£175
49. HORLER, Sydney. The
Screaming Skull and Other
Stories. Hoddor & Stoughton,
London: n.d. [1930s]. After
the title story are six others
including, ‘The Vampire’
and ‘The White Witch of
Curzon Street’. Very good in
an unusually bright and clean
jacket with just a small nick at
the bottom of the spine. £30
51. JACKSON, Shirley. The
Sundial. Michael Joseph,
London: 1958. Very good
with some spotting to the
pages’ top edges in a lightly
rubbed jacket. £25
54. KERSH, Gerald. The Best
of Gerald Kersh. Heinemann,
London: 1960. Very good in a
very good jacket. £15
50. HOWARD, Robert E.
The Dark Man and Others.
Arkham House, Sauk City:
1963. Introduction by August
Derleth. Fine in a very good
jacket with only the most
minor of shelfwear to the
edges. £75
52. KARLOFF, Boris (ed.)
And the Darkness Falls. World
Publishing, New York: 1946.
A huge anthology containing
69 stories in over 600 pages.
Patterned paper boards and
cloth backstrip. Backstrip is
slightly frayed at top. Good.
£18
53. KERSH, Gerald. Neither
Man Nor Dog. Short Stories.
Heinemann, London:
1946. Very good in a good,
complete jacket with spotting
and marks. £12
55. LAING, Alexander (ed.)
Great Ghost Stories of the
World. The Haunted Omnibus.
Blue Ribbon Books, New
York: 1941. Reprint of an
anthology first published in
1937. Brilliantly atmospheric
illustrations and jacket by
Lynd Ward. Very good in a
good jacket that is rubbed
and chipped. £12
56. LAMB, Hugh. Victorian
Tales of Terror. A Horror
Anthology. W. H. Allen,
London: 1974. SIGNED by
the anthologist and inscribed
intriguingly “To my other
mum”. Very good in a very
good jacket. £30
57. LAMB, Hugh. Terror
by Gaslight. More Victorian
Tales of Terror. W. H. Allen,
London: 1975. SIGNED and
inscribed by the editor on the
endpaper. Fine in a near fine
jacket. £30
58. LAMB, Hugh. Victorian
Nightmares. W. H. Allen,
London: 1977. Fine in a near
fine jacket. SIGNED and
inscribed by the author on
the half-title. £22
59. LOVECRAFT, H. P.
At the Mountains of Madness
and Other Novels. Selected
and with an introduction
by August Derleth. Arkham
House, Sauk City: 1971.
Third impression. Very good
in a very good jacket. £40
60. LOVECRAFT, H. P.
Dagon and other Macabre Tales.
Arkham House, Sauk City:
1965. Very good in a very
good, complete jacket. £45
61. McLAREN, Mrs Jack.
Which Hath Been. A Novel of
Reincarnation. Philip Allan,
London: 1936. Second
edition, new and revised. The
first edition of this book was
published 10 years before by
Cecil Palmer. Both editions
appear scarce. Foxing to
the page edges and prelims,
otherwise very good in green
cloth. £60
62. MARE, Walter de la.
Broomsticks and Other Tales.
Constable, London: 1925.
Twelve stories, quite well
thought of by the critics.
Very good in a fair only jacket
which has chips and rubbing
all over and lacks a significant
piece at the bottom of the
spine and front panel. £25
63. MARE, Walter de la.
The Scarecrow and Other
Stories. Faber, London: 1945.
Good in a very good, lightly
chipped jacket. £5
64. MEIK, Vivian. Devils’
Drums. Philip Allan, London:
1933. Stories of central
African voodoo. A modern
reprint, with additional
stories, was issued by Medusa
Press in 2011. This copy is
in very good, bright, clean
condition. £120
65. NATHAN, Robert.
Portrait of Jennie. Sampson
Low, Marston & Co.,
London, 1940. Basis for a
1948 film often described as a
neglected masterpiece. Scarce
UK first edition published
under wartime austerity.
Good only in somewhat
rubbed red cloth. £15
66. PARRY, Michael. Waves
of Terror. Weird Stories of the
Sea. Gollancz, London: 1976.
Very good in a very good
wrapper with a little light
foxing to occasional pages.
£10
67. PARRY, Michael (ed).
Reign of Terror. Great Victorian
Horror Stories. Severn
House, London: 1977. A
long introduction on the
history of the horror story
is followed by a collection
of work by Charles Dickens,
Richard Harris Barham,
Catherine Crowe, William
Mudford and Elizabeth
Gaskell. Very good in a very
good, lightly shelfworn jacket.
£12
SHIEL, M. P. Xelucha and
Others. Arkham House, Sauk
City: 1975. Near fine in a near
fine jacket. £10
68. Q [A. T. Quiller-Couch]
Shakespeare’s Christmas and
other stories. Smith, Elder &
Co., London: 1905. Seven
stories. Red cloth is faded
on the backstrip and frayed
at the bottom edge, front
hinge just starting. Good only
condition. £20
69. ROBBINS, Tod. In The
Shadow. Elkin Matthews &
Marrot, London: 1929. Eight
tales. A publisher’s bookmark
on a string is attached to the
book. Good in black cloth
with a slight lean to the spine
and some of the lettering on
the backstrip rubbed. Scarce.
£50
70. ROHMER, Sax. The Green
Eyes of Bast. Cassell, London:
1924. Popular edition. Red
cloth in very good condition.
£10
72. SHIEL, M. P. Prince
Zaleski and Cummings King
Monk. Mycroft & Moran,
Sauk City: 1977. Must be fine
and in a fine jacket as it is
still shrink-wrapped from the
publisher. £12
71. SHEPARD, Lucius. The
Jaguar Hunter. Arkham House,
Sauk City: 1987. Fine in a fine
jacket. £15
73. STURGEON, Theodore.
Caviar. An Original Collection
of Science Fiction. Sidgwick &
Jackson, London: 1968. Fine
in a near fine jacket. £50
74. SUMMERS, Montague.
Victorian Ghost Stories. The
Fortune Press, London:
[1936] Good in black cloth
with a few light marks. £30
75. VISIAK, E. H. Medusa.
A Story of Mystery and Ecstasy
and Strange Horror. Gollancz,
London: 1946. A reprint of
an original publication in
1929, this one as part of the
“Connoisseur’s Library of
Strange Fiction”. Blue cloth
in lightly rubbed but good
condition. £22
76. VIVIAN, E. Charles. The
Forbidden Door. Ward Lock
& Co., London: 1929. Good
in lightly bumped red cloth
boards with slight separation
between endpaper and halftitle. £30
77. WAGENKNECHT,
Edward. The Fireside Book
of Ghost Stories. BobbsMerrill, New York: 1947.
Straightforward second-hand
copy in good condition. £12
78. WAKEFIELD, H.
Russell. The Best Ghost Stories.
John Murray, London: 1978.
Introduced and edited by
Richard Dalby. Fine in a fine
jacket. £30
79. WALTER, Elizabeth.
In the Mist and other uncanny
encounters. Arkham House,
Sauk City: 1979. Fine in a
very good jacket with just
some very light rubbing. £10
80. WELLS, H. G. The War of
the Worlds. The Looking Glass
Library/Random House,
New York: 1960. Illustrated
by Edward Gorey with
some really rather charming
illustrations at the head of
every chapter. Very good in
a very good jacket. Pictorial
boards a little bumped, jacket
has some edgewear. £20
81. WHARTON, Edith.
Ghosts. Appleton Century,
New York: 1937. Eleven
stories. Very good, very
lightly rubbed. £15
82. WILKINS-FREEMAN,
Mary E. Collected Ghost Stories.
Arkham House, Sauk City:
1974. Fine in a near fine
jacket. £10
83. WREN, P. C. Rough
Shooting. True Stories and Strange
Tales. John Murray, London:
1938. A scarce first edition.
Good in a good jacket. There
is one page a little loose but
not detached. The jacket has
some old tape reinforcement
at the folds and edges on the
verso and is faded and soiled
at the spine. £95
84. WYNDHAM, John. The
Kraken Wakes. Michael Joseph,
London: 1953. Very good
with a slightly dusty top edge
in a jacket that has a couple
of short, closed tears and a
few age marks on the mainly
white rear panel. £70
85. WYNDHAM, John and
Lucas Parkes. The Outward
Urge. Science Fiction Book
Club, London: 1961. First
book publication in this
form as chapter five was
not included in the Michael
Joseph first edition. Very
good in a good, complete
jacket that has a few chips,
and short closed tears. £8
PAMPHLETS:
86. ASHLEY, Mike
(Compiler). When Spirits Talk.
The True Story of Ghost Stories.
The Ghost Story Society:
1990. 30pp, stapled, card
covers. A long introduction
by Ashley details the history
of the magazine Ghost Stories
and the booklet then reprints
two stories, ‘Child or Demon
– Which?’ by Victor Rousseau
and ‘A Soul With Two Bodies’
by Urann Thayer. £15
87. “B”. When the Door is
Shut and other Ghost Stories.
Rosemary Pardoe, Cheshire:
1986. 34pp, stapled, card
covers. Five stories of
antiquarian, Jamesian style by
the author known only as B.
There is an introduction in
which it is suggested that the
most likely candidate would
be A. C. Benson but which
admits that the case is far
from proven. £20
89. BURRAGE, A. M.
Un-Paying Guests. Rosemary
Pardoe, Chester: 1989.
22pp, stapled, card covers.
Two previously uncollected
stories and an analysis of
supernatural fiction by
Burrage. A little darkened at
the fold. £12
88. [BENSON, E. F.] The
Dodo. The E. F. Benson Society
Journal no.5, November 1989.
44pp stapled into card covers.
An edition of the journal
devoted to ghost stories and
including Benson’s own ‘The
Technique of the Ghost
Story’, an article by Richard
Dalby and three other pieces.
£12
90. CHALLINOR, Philip.
Akin to Poetry. Observations on
Some Strange Tales of Robert
Aickman. Gothic Press
(Gothic Chapbook no. 15),
Baton Rouge: 2010. 80pp,
stapled into card covers.
Eight essays on Aickmann’s
work. £20
91. CRAWFORD, Gary
William. Robert Aikman. An
Introduction. The Gothic Press
(Gothic Chapbook no. 7),
Baton Rouge: 2003. 76pp
stapled into card covers. £10
93. D.N.J. The Moon-Gazer and
one other. Rosemary Pardoe,
Chester: 1988. 12pp stapled
into card covers. A little
darkening of the card at the
fold. £20
92. DALBY, Richard (ed).
Masters of Fantasy 3: M. R.
James. B.F.S., London: 1987.
24pp stapled into card covers.
£8
94. HOWARD, Nic (ed).
Masters of Fantasy 2: August
Derleth. B.F.S., London: 1984.
24pp stapled into laminated
paper covers. Illustrated
throughout. Includes
biographical, literary and
bibliographical elements.
It’s not clear to me if the
lamination of the cover
is original, there are a few
wrinkles in it. £5
95. [JAMES, M. R.] Mongtague
Rhodes James. Praepositus necnon
amicus. 1862-1936. Kings
College, Cambridge: 1936.
Three tributes to James on
the occasion of his death
including his Times obituary
but also from the Cambridge
Review and the Eton College
Chronicle. 30pp sewn into buff
paper covers. The edges of
the covers are a little chipped
and the spine lightly rubbed,
there is a little uneven fading
to the covers, internally very
clean and bright. £40
96. LAMB, Hugh. The James
Gang. A Bibliography of Writers
in the M. R. James Tradition.
Rosemary Pardoe, Chester:
1991. 16pp stapled into thin
card wraps. £15
97. MAYNARD, L. H. and
M. P. N. Sims. Moths. Enigma
Press, Hatfield: 1998. 42pp
stapled into card covers.
Fiction. “An evil spanning
centuries, spawned under the
rising sun of Imperial Japan
now resurfaces in the idyllic
Wiltshire countryside.” £5
98. ROLT, L. T. C. Two Ghost
Stories edited by Christopher
and Barbara Roden. BC
Enterprises, Chester:
1994. 16pp stapled into
stiff card covers. The two
stories in question are ‘The
Shouting’ and ‘The House of
Vengeance’. £12
NON FICTION:
(-ish)
99. DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The Edge of the Unknown.
John Murray, London: 1930.
Second impression in same
year as first. A collection of
Doyle’s spiritualist essays.
Ex-library with the usual
treatments, backstrip chipped
at top and bottom with short
split in cloth at the top of the
front hinge. Good only. £60
100. FORTESCUE, The
Rev. Adrian and the Rev. J
O’Connell. The Ceremonies
of the Roman Rite Described...
in accordance with the rubrics of
liturgical books, the decrees of
the Congregation of Sacred Rites,
the Code of Canon Law, and
approved authors etc... Burns,
Oates and Washbourne
Ltd., London: 1937. Sixth
Edition. Known the Anglocatholic world over simply
as ‘Fortescue and O’Connell’
this book defined nearly
a century of Anglican
worship with that particular
branch of the Anglican
church. Contains meticulous
instructions for the ‘proper’
performance of all manner
of liturgies, including a
Pontifical section (those rites
proper to a Bishop), and
diagrams throughout illustrate
the positions and movements
of ritual participants. Blue
cloth, light marks, very good.
£22
101. GREBER, Johannes.
Communication with the Spirit
World. Personal Experiences of a
Catholic Priest. John Felsberg,
New York: 1932. Second
edition. An intriguing
character who was introduced
to the spirit realm in 1923,
and translated the New
Testament with help from the
spirit world. Very good in a
very good jacket. £20
102. McKENZIE, J. Hewat.
Spirit Intercourse. It’s Theory and
Practice. Simpkin, Marshall,
Hamilton, Kent & Co.,
London: [c1917]. Third
edition. A significant figure
in the history of mediumship
in the UK. This is considered
his masterpiece. Obviously
the First World War provided
a fertile ground for this as a
growth field and McKenzie’s
pamphlet, “If a Soldier
Die, shall he live again?” is
advertised at the back of
the book. Green cloth. Very
good. £10
disincarnate soul of Oneferu
who is drawn in pencil as a
frontispiece. A few cracks
between sections and some
foxing. Good only. £20
106. SWEET, Leonore.
How to Photograph the
Paranormal. Hampton
Roads, Charlottesville: 2005.
From humble beginnings
photographing the spirit of
her sister’s dog, Dr Sweet
present orbs, vortexes and
ectoplasm. Paperback. Small
mark on a few page edges,
gift inscription. £4
103. PRICE, Harry. The Most
Haunted House in England. Ten
Years’ Investigation of Borley
Rectory. Longmans, Green &
Co., London, 1941. Reprinted
with corrections. Very good
in blue cloth. £22
105. RENSSELAER, Mrs
John King Van. Prophetical,
Educational and Playing Cards.
Hurst & Blackett Ltd.,
London: 1912. A wonderful
piece of gilt blocking on the
upper board of this book. 16
plates illustrating a number
of cards on each. Much
discussion of the Tarot as
well as the symbolism of
playing cards. £25
104. RANDALL-STEVENS,
Hugh C. A Voice Out of Egypt.
An Adventure in Clair-Audience.
The Francis Mott Co., Ltd.
London: 1935. A book which
begins “As a child I was
completely normal in every
respect – just as I am to-day,
but for the voices.” Insights
into Egyptian mysteries,
Genesis and Atlantis from the
107. WATKINS, Alfred. The
Ley Hunter’s Manual. A Guide
to Early Tracks. Simpkin,
Marshall & Co., London:
1927. Watkins developed the
notion of Leys as straight
ancient trackways across the
landscape in the early 1920s
but no esoteric or in any way
mysterious attributes were
given them until 1969. Soft
printed card covers. £12
PERIODICALS:
107. The Arkham Collector Nos.
1-10, Summer 1967-Summer
1971. 348pp in total stapled
into ten booklets giving a
fascinating insight into the
workings of the publisher.
£60
108. All Hallows. The Journal
of The Ghost Story Society. A
run of 31 volumes. Issues
number 3, 4, 18-40, 41 (2
copies), 42 (2 copies), and 43
(2 copies). These are being
sold separately. Issues 3 & 4
are stapled booklets, all the
others are in trade paperback
format. All in fine or near
fine condition. Nos. 3 & 4:
£15 each. All other copies
£10 each.
109. Enigmatic Tales. The
Enigmatic Press, Ely: 19982000. An illustrated quartlerly
of supernatural fiction. A
broken run consisting of nos.
2, and 5-10 (7 volumes). £40
the set.
110. Ghosts & Scholars.
Pardoe, Runcorn: 1986-2001.
A broken run of 17 volumes,
that is, 8-14, 20, 22-25,
27, 30-33. Along with five
issues of Ghosts & Scholars
M. R. James Newsletter, nos
1-3, 5-6 (2002-2004). These
publications represent one of
the most sustained and highquality critical endeavours in
the genre. All £10 each.