ADRIAN, JACK (ED.),

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2002: Ghosts At The Cornhill 1920-1930.

Ash-Tree Press, 2002. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. ISBN: 1553100484. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Collection of fourteen ghost stories from the pages of the Cornhill magazine (1920-1930), none of which have seen print since their original publication. 500 copies printed.

-- Cold Tonnage Books

Book number: 10464

Keywords: 1553100484

ADRIAN, JACK (EDITOR).

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre, 2000.

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press 2000. 1st Edition, Limited. Hardbound 8vo (8.25 inches tall) 148 pages. Notes and sources. red decorated endpapers. Description: Dust jacket art by Rob Suggs. Nine stories; the authors include: S Baring-Gould, Sax Rohmer, Julian Hawthorne, B M Croker, and others. This was limited to 500 copies. BINDING/CONDITION: dark burgundy cloth; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket. ISBN: 1-553100-11-5

-- The Bookworm

Book number: 052853

Catalogue: Fantasy and Science Fiction

Keywords: 1553100115

ADRIAN, JACK-EDITOR

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2002 Ghosts at "the Cornhill" 1920-1930

Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada, Ash Tree Pr. 2002, First Edition/First Printing. (ISBN: 1553100484) Hard Cover. Anthology, A square tight solid possibly un-read copy. The book shows some very minor pagedge soil and the DW shows sone minor soil and a closed tear/very small chip on the lower edge of the rear panel. N-Fine/Very Good +.

-- Pat Cramer, Bookseller

Book number: 017301

Catalogue: Horror

Keywords: W.H. Adams Violet Jacob John Sampson William Bradley George Blake Hilton Brown Edward Liveing H.T. Sheringham L.M. Crump Barbara Euphan Todd F.H. Dorset Cecil Binney John Fisher Shaugh Courtenay Anthology Ghosts Sold 2006 Fw1553100484

ADRIAN, JACK (ED.),

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1999.

Ash-Tree Press, 1999. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. ISBN: 1899562885. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Collects six weird stories, ''The House That Was Lost'' by Tom Gallon (1908), ''Tight and Loose'' by Neil Gow (1932), ''The Man Who Was Tomorrow'' by Eric Ambrose (1933), ''Newsreel'' by W. J. Makin (1935), ''Time-Piece'' by Donald Showbridge (1939) and ''Last Act First'' by Laurence Meynell (1940), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian. 500 copies printed.

-- Cold Tonnage Books

Book number: 01997

Keywords: 1899562885

ADRIAN, JACK [ED].

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2001.

Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press. 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Original cloth, fine in dust wrapper. 500 copies printed. Edited, with an Introduction, by Jack Adrian.
¶ Collection of Supernatural stories by Marjorie Bowen, Elisabeth Kyle, F. Tennyson Jesse, Pamela Frankau, Lucas Malet, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Elizabeth Gorell, S.P.B. Mais, and Milward Kennedy. Fine in Dust Jacket .

-- Thompson Rare Books - ABAC/ILAB

Book number: 288

Catalogue: Occult & Supernatural Fiction

ADRIAN, JACK (ED.),

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2004: The Last 'Queer Stories From Truth'.

Ash-Tree Press, 2004. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover, ISBN: 1553100778. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Collects thirty-one short supernatural stories, first published in the weekly ''Truth'', which as the editor states in his 32-page introduction, was primarily a ''political, financial, and muck-raking scandal sheet which ran from the mid-1870's through to the 1950's''. 500 copies printed.

-- Cold Tonnage Books

Book number: 16172

Keywords: 1553100778

ADRIAN, JACK (ED.),

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2001.

Ash-Tree Press, 2001. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. ISBN: 1553100263. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) but for a little browning to the white spine panel (not affecting lettering). Collects thirteen supernatural stories from the British fiction magazines of the 1920's and 1930's, only one of which has seen previous book publication. Seven page introduction by the editor. 500 copies printed.

-- Cold Tonnage Books

Book number: 07743

Keywords: 1553100263

ADRIAN, JACK (ED.),

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2005: Haven't I Read This Before?

Ash-Tree Press, 2006. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover, ISBN: 1553100875. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Collects twenty (mostly not well-known) supernatural stories by a number of writers ''whose work appears either to have been influenced by, or been an influence upon, the work of others. In some of the stories, well-known writers have drawn on, and improved, earlier work: in others, less known authors have attempted their own variations on well-known stories''. In his 26-page introduction, the editor puts it a little more bluntly, and ''discusses the theme of plagiarism and literary (and musical!) theft''. 400 copies printed.

-- Cold Tonnage Books

Book number: 18920

Keywords: 1553100875

ADRIAN, JACK [ED].

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2002. Ghosts at 'the Cornhill' 1920-1930.

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press. 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Original cloth, dust wrapper. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, as new.
¶ Anthology of ghost stories from THE CORNHILL magazine. Fine in Dust Jacket .

-- Thompson Rare Books - ABAC/ILAB

Book number: 300

Catalogue: Occult & Supernatural Fiction

ADRIAN, JACK (ED.),

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1998.

Ash-Tree Press, 1998. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover. ISBN: 1899562621. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Collects six weird stories, ''Told in the Inn at Algeciras'' by William Somerset Maugham (1905), ''Post-Mortem'' by Arthur Ransome (1906), ''The Medium's End'' by Ford Madox Ford (1912), ''Exactly as it Happened'' by E. C. Bentley (1926), ''The Unpleasant Room'' by Hilaire Belloc (1928) and ''Ho! The Merry Masons'' by John Buchan (1933), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian. 500 copies printed.

-- Cold Tonnage Books

Book number: 01059

Keywords: 1899562621

ADRIAN, JACK [ED].

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2003. Ghosts at 'the Cornhill' 1931-1939.

Ashcroft, BC: Ash-Tree Press. 2003. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, original red cloth titled in gilt. 500 copies printed. Fine in dust wrapper, as new.
¶ Anthology of Ghost Stories by Mary Webb, Nugent Barker, Joyce Kilburn, Maud Diver and others, culled from the pages of THE CORNHILL Magazine. Fine in Dust Jacket .

-- Thompson Rare Books - ABAC/ILAB

Book number: 2009

Catalogue: Occult & Supernatural Fiction

ADRIAN, JACK (ED.),

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2000.

Ash-Tree Press, 2000. First edition (& 1st printing). Hardcover, ISBN: 1553100115. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new). Fourth in the annual series: collects nine ''forgotten'' ghost stories, never published in book form, by such masters of the macabre as E. Nesbit, S. Baring-Gould, Sax Rohmer and Julian Hawthorne. 500 copies printed.

-- Cold Tonnage Books

Book number: 04747

Keywords: 1553100115

JACK ADRIAN

Crime At Christmas: A Seasonal Box Of Murderous Delights

HarperCollins. 1988. (ISBN: 9781853360428). Hardcover. Very good / very good. Very good condition hardback with no marks or inscriptions internally, lightest of edge wear - dustjacket very good with light edge wear and wrinkle - clipped - very good hardback copy. 224 pages. Very good.

-- Final Chapter Books

Book number: 1010F09

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9781853360428

JACK ADRIAN

Crime At Christmas: A Seasonal Box Of Murderous Delights

HarperCollins. 1988. (ISBN: 9781853360428). Hardcover. Very good / very good. Very good condition hardback with no marks or inscriptions internally, lightest of edge wear - dustjacket very good with light edge wear and wrinkle - clipped - very good hardback copy. 224 pages. Very Good.

-- Final Chapter Books

Book number: S1010F09

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 9781853360428

ADRIAN, JACK

Crime at Christmas: A Seasonal Box of Murderous Delights.

London: Equation 1988. . 222p hardback, square format, dustjacket, VG+.

-- Plurabelle Books

Book number: PAQ89569

Catalogue: Crime

ADRIAN, JACK EDITED

Crime at Christmas

Equation. 1988, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 1853360422). Cloth Hard Back, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Brian Denington. /, In almost fine condition with no name - direct from a closing down Book Shop shelf - D/j clipped also in vg+ condition & protected by clear cello sleeve - "A Seasonal Box of Murderous Delights" Guaranteed posting 24hrs from Wales. Almost Fine/Almost Fine.

-- Collina Books

Book number: 007672

Catalogue: Fiction 1st. editions

Keywords: Detective and Mystery Stories Christmas 1853360422 Brian Denington

ADRIAN , JACK (EDITOR):

Crime at Christmas

Equation 1988 First VG/VG slight edgewear price clipped 224pp profuse b/w drawings by Brian Denington 10 x 8 810g
¶ A seasinal box of murderous delights! There is a previous owners inscription inside the book

-- Stort Books

Book number: 5218

Keywords: crime christmas seasonal box murderous delights anthology short stories tension murder grim comic tales fiction 1853360317

ADRIAN, JACK

Death Lands: Pilgrimage to Hell

Australia, Gold Eagle. 1987, First Australian Edition. (ISBN: 0373625014) Paperback, Small Duodecimo (12mo), approx. 7" (180mm) tall. Hard to find copy. Well read with a fair amount of creasing & rubbing on the covers and spine, worn on extremities with cracks on front hinge. Solid inside, with some tanning or browning of pages, previous owner's name inside front cover and book exchange stamp on front endpaper, but still a sound reading copy or better. Fair - Good.

-- Booksplendour

Book number: 108915

Catalogue: Science Fiction

Keywords: Disaster Novel Technological Thriller Suspense Science Fiction Novel Fantasy Sci-Fi Sf Thriller Action Adventure Nuclear War Scarce Hard to Find Book 0373625014

ADRIAN, JACK (EDITOR)

Detective Stories from the Strand Magazine

Oxford University Press, 1991. F First Edition. Hardcover, Hard Cover, with dustjacket, ISBN: 0192123068. Near Fine +/Near Fine. 25 classic stories from the Strand, including authors Somerset Maugham, E. C. Bentley, G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley and others.

-- My Book Heaven

Book number: E11264

Keywords: Fiction, Mystery, Anthology 0192123068

ADRIAN, JACK (EDITOR) (PSEUDONYM OF CHRISTOPHER LOWDER)

Detective Stories from the Strand Magazine

Oxford University Press. (ISBN: 0-19-212306-8) . [date not known]. (Hardcover) Very good in dust jacket. Pseudonym of Christopher Lowder. (Mystery).

-- Pandora's Books

Book number: 671162

Catalogue: Crime Fiction

Keywords: Mystery 0192123068

ADRIAN JACK & PRONZINI BILL (EDITED BY)

Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories (First Printing)

New York, Oxford University Press. 1995, First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. A near fine book which is slightly sprung at the head of the spine and has slightly creased spine ends. The dust jacket is also near fine with some edge creasing, a tiny chafe to the bottom of the hinge of the foldover of the back flap, and some surface wear to the lamination of the flaps. First edition, first printing. (ISBN: 0195084993) , /Dust Jacket Included.

-- Cattus Diligo

Book number: 3809MN

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Dashiell Hammett ; Raymond Chandler ; Chester Himes; Paul Cain; Ross MacDonald ; James Ellroy ; Helen Nielsen 0195084993

ADRIAN, JACK AND ADEY, ROBERT. (EDITED BY)

Murder Impossible. : An Extravaganza of Miraculous Murders, Fantastic Felonies and Incredible Criminals.

Carroll and Graf, New York 1990. 8vo, 306pp. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

-- Sainsbury's Books

Book number: 81583

Keywords: New Acquisitions Crime

ADRIAN, JACK AND ROBERT ADEY [ EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY]

Murder Impossible; An Extravaganza of Miraculous Murders and Fantastic Felonies & Incredible Criminals

Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 260 Fifth Avenue, New York First Edition 1990. New York 1990. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. ISBN 0881846414. Contains [ix] 306 printed pages of text. Without any ownership markings. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper.

-- Little Stour Books Books (Member of PBFA)

Book number: 54019

Catalogue: TRUE CRIME

ADRIAN, JACK

Pilgrimage to Hell (Deathlands #1)

Ontario, Worldwide Library. 1992. (ISBN: 0373630573) Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 380p massmarket paperback with shelf and reading wear. Interior is clean, with slight yellowing to top edges of pages. Sound binding. Good.

-- The Book Bin, Inc. - Salem

Book number: 060481

Catalogue: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Keywords: 0373630573

ADRIAN, JACK (CHOSEN AND INTRODUCED BY)

Sexton Blake Wins (Classic Thrillers series)

London, J. M. Dent. 1986. (ISBN: 0460024825). Paperback. A gently read copy with some wear to wraps, pages lightly tanned. Very Good.

-- Page Two

Book number: 011372

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Crime Fiction 0460024825