THE ISLAND OF FANTASY: A ROMANCE by Hume, Fergus - 1892

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, 1951. This is the story of a man's blind infatuation, his heartbreak and his slow decline into a living inferno. Rare! Book and jacket are both in good condition with wear to the jacket edges and soil, and cover soil and wear to the spine ends of the book. A rare fantasy title with original jacket. 1038 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by None. 5.5 x 8.

Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1935 HBDJ, 1935 on title pg, 1st Edition, VG/VG-, AS-IS, This collectible vintage children's book is in very good condition with clean, strong pages and a Pictorial cover, which Duplicztes DJ showing only light-moderate general wear including rubbing at corners and spine ends. No writing or marks except for a seven-word to/from/date inside the front cover. The dust jacket is in good condition showing light-moderate general wear including some short tears and small chips (longest tear only 3/4"), and a small spot of white debris near the bottom of the front of the jacket., Pictorial hardback, Scarce, lightly edge worn jacket with several small edge tears and 50 cent flap price., UNPAGINATED ,Approximately 52 pages. approximately 9-3/4" x 7", Back DJ Small Scuff Mark, Black spine DJ has scuff Marks, Light Wear Fox Interior Pgs, We wanted to play Indians so we went to Mrs. McGuire’s Chicken Yard to get some Feathers. Lebeck is best known for his role in the establishment… Read More

London: Skeffington & Son Ltd.. Good in Good dust jacket; Corners rounded, foxing throughout, jacket . soiled and edgeworn.. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. A reprint of the author's articles printed in The Evening News about "the errors of infidelity and the absurdities of spiritualism are exposed in a firm but courteous manner". The Welsh author is more generally known for his Gothic, horror-tinged novels and short stories. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 62 pages .

London, Jonathan Cape, 1962, hardcover, 159 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, wear to head and heel of spine, light bumps and scuffs to boards. The first book in the author's twelve-book, fictional history, 'Wolves' series. Illustrated from drawings by Pat Marriott.

Comments: Top edge discolored from age. Light wear to d-j.
Synopsis: The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc, 1951. This is the story of a man's blind infatuation, his heartbreak and his slow decline into a living inferno. Rare! Book and jacket are both in good condition with wear to the jacket edges and soil, and cover soil and wear to the spine ends of the book. A rare fantasy title with original jacket. 1038 pages, 5.5 x 8 inches.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by None. 5.5 x 8.

Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1935 HBDJ, 1935 on title pg, 1st Edition, VG/VG-, AS-IS, This collectible vintage children's book is in very good condition with clean, strong pages and a Pictorial cover, which Duplicztes DJ showing only light-moderate general wear including rubbing at corners and spine ends. No writing or marks except for a seven-word to/from/date inside the front cover. The dust jacket is in good condition showing light-moderate general wear including some short tears and small chips (longest tear only 3/4"), and a small spot of white debris near the bottom of the front of the jacket., Pictorial hardback, Scarce, lightly edge worn jacket with several small edge tears and 50 cent flap price., UNPAGINATED ,Approximately 52 pages. approximately 9-3/4" x 7", Back DJ Small Scuff Mark, Black spine DJ has scuff Marks, Light Wear Fox Interior Pgs, We wanted to play Indians so we went to Mrs. McGuire’s Chicken Yard to get some Feathers. Lebeck is best known for his role in the establishment… Read More

London: Skeffington & Son Ltd.. Good in Good dust jacket; Corners rounded, foxing throughout, jacket . soiled and edgeworn.. 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. A reprint of the author's articles printed in The Evening News about "the errors of infidelity and the absurdities of spiritualism are exposed in a firm but courteous manner". The Welsh author is more generally known for his Gothic, horror-tinged novels and short stories. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 62 pages .

Toronto, Canada: Key Porter Books, 1987. First printing. Signed by author on fly title page. Hint of bumping to ends of spine, faint erasure mark on fly title page, else near fine. DJ very lightly wrinkled at ends of spine, else fine. Protected in mylar.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: J. F. Taylor & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, especially at spine, corners . worn, front hinge tender, foxing to leaves surrounding frontispiece.. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Original navy decorated cloth. Top edges gilt. Black and white illustrations by Bernard J. Rosemeyer and Chauncey Gale. 327pp + [16]pp of publisher’s ads. A lost race novel purporting to be an explorer’s account of an expedition to Antarctica and the South Pole. Signed by Albert Bigelow Paine on the title page. Further inscribed on the front free endpaper “To A Scientist but not “the scientist”. From The Author”. Stamp on front pastedown notes “From Edward F. Bigelow, Stamford, Conn. ” ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .