DICKENS, CHARLES; GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS; DE MAUPASSANT, GUY; NESBIT, EDITH; ONIONS, OLIVER

Midnight Fright : A Collection of Ghost Stories

Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Troll Communications Llc, 1993. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN: 0893754056. pb,light wear/soil,crease at spine/lower corners,nick at upper front cover,spine label,name stamped/nbr on inside cover; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 136 pages. Good with no dust jacket.

-- BG Media

Book number: 38968

Catalogue: Juvenile

Keywords: 0893754056 Children Fiction Ghost Stories Juvenile Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

ONIONS OLIVER

A Penny for the Harp

GB, Joseph. 1952, 1st Edition. Hardback. W.H. Smith library labels on front pastedown but no other library marks. Fairly clean tight book. G++/No DW.

-- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)

Book number: ks.sh312.060

ONIONS, OLIVER

Arras of Youth

London, Michael Joseph. 1905, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. George Oliver Onions (13 November 1873 - 9 April 1961) was a significant English novelist who published over forty novels and story collections. Originally trained as a commercial artist, he worked as a designer of posters and books, and as a magazine illustrator, before starting his career in writing. The first editions of his novels were published with dust jackets bearing full-colour illustrations painted by Onions himself. He married the writer Berta Ruck in 1909 and they had two sons, Arthur (born 1912) and William (born 1913). Onions legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, but continued to publish under the name Oliver Onions. Besides detective fiction, historical fiction and a science fiction novel, New Moon (1918), Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror. On the surface, this is a conventional haunted house story: an unsuccessful writer moves into rooms in an otherwise empty house, in the hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend and his sanity are all destroyed in the process. The story can be read as narrating the gradual possession of the protagonist by a mysterious and possessive feminine spirit, or as a realistic description of a psychotic outbreak culminating in catatonia and murder, told from the sufferer's point of view. The precise description of the slow disintegration of the protagonist's mind is terrifying in either case. Another theme, shared with others of Onions' stories, is a connection between creativity and insanity; in this view, the artist is in danger of withdrawing from the world altogether and losing himself in his creation. Onions was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his 1946 novel Poor Man's Tapestry. Good/No Jacket.

-- Delectus Books

Book number: 019669

Catalogue: Literature and Poetry

Keywords: Oliver Onions English Literature Decadence 1890s

ONIONS, OLIVER

Arras of Youth

Michael Joseph, 1973 Hardback, Very Good/Very Good. Reprint, brown cloth, 12mo, literary agent's label to ffep, clean and sound in illustrated dust jacket..

-- Catalyst Books

Book number: 17076

Catalogue: Novel

ONIONS, OLIVER,

Arras of Youth.

Michael Joseph, 1949. 336pp, Hardback, Very Good/ No dustwrapper. residue of small label on ffep.

-- O'Donoghue Books

Book number: 441865

Keywords: Modern 1st Edition 669463000

ONIONS, OLIVER

Arras of Youth

London, Michael Joseph. 1949, First Edition. 336 pages, ex public library rebound in blue cloth, page edges browned, previous owner message on the inside front cover. Good/No Jacket.

-- Philip Emery

Book number: 3337

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 336

ONIONS, OLIVER

Arras of Youth

London Michael Joseph 1949 . First Edition. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise very good in a lightly rubbed jacket that is darkened on the spine. Hardcover. Very Good.

-- Kenneth Mallory Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB

Book number: 16083

Catalogue: Literature

ONIONS, OLIVER

Arras of youth

M. Joseph, 1949.. 1st edition. Good hardback. Ex public library copy. Inscription.

-- Philip Emery

Book number: 67829

Catalogue: Fiction 1sts

Keywords: Fiction 1sts 1

ONIONS, OLIVER,

THE BECKONING FAIR ONE.

Onions, Oliver. THE BECKONING FAIR ONE. NY: Dover Publications, c2004. 89pp. 8vo. New trade softcover copy

-- Columbia Books ABAA/ILAB

Book number: 68539

ONIONS, OLIVER

Bells Rung Backwards

GB, Staples. 1953, 1st Thus. Hardback. Fairly clean tight book but spine bit worn. VG-/VG- DW.

-- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)

Book number: kb120.013

OLIVER ONIONS

Bells Rung Backwards

London and New York, Staples Press. 1953, 1st. Hardc, 13.5x20cm. Book, Green boards, gilt publisher's icon bottom right of front, slightly dulled gilt titles on slightly faded spine bearing very slight handling creases to ends; negligible scuff to lower fore edge corners; one page creased at fore edge otherwise content fine. Very Good/No.

-- Booth Books

Book number: MPS2057

Keywords: Oliver Onions Fiction Bells Staples

ONIONS, OLIVER.

Bells Rung Backwards

London, Staples Press, 1953. Hardcover, 8vo., green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, dustjacket in good condition but for minor wear along top edge, not price-clipped, 285pp. Contains 5 short stories collected in one volume for the first time.

-- Out of Print Books

Book number: 91964

Keywords: Fiction Stories Ghost Mystery Onions

ONIONS, OLIVER. (ALSO KNOWN AS GEORGE OLIVER.) DUST JACKET ART BY BIRO.

Bells Rung Backwards. (Contains: The Rosewood Door; the Woman in the Way; the Honey in the Wall; John Gladwin Says; the Painted Face. )

Staples, London, 1953.. 285 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Last brought together in 1935 and long out of print, today these stories are hard to come by. They represent the author's best work in this genre and many will welcome their reappearance. What are g hosts for if not to walk again? The ghosts in this book are no ordinary spectres with clanking chains, but creatures of flesh and blood archored to the past. From the past they come, bewildered and unhappy, and to the past they must return u n t i l r ecalled yet once again by a summons from the world of mortal men." Previous owner's name on front pastedown, minor browning to pages, book slightly cocked, one small corner bump, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has l ig ht t o m od erate edge wear/wrinkling, a few small chips and tears, moderate browning, light rubbing/soiling and small light stain on rear panel. Very Good/Good.

-- Capricorn Books

Book number: 20390

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Supernatural, Psychological, Ghosts, Ghost Stories, Hauntings, Occult, Gothic, Fantasy, Literary, Love, Romance, Reincarnation, Time Travel, Souls, Short Stories, Torment, Death, Gods, Punishment.

ONIONS, (OLIVER).

A Case in Camera.

NY: Macmillan, 1921. First US edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Green cloth lettered in orange. Cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired, else a VG tight and unworn copy, no owner names. A crime novel, in Hubin.

-- Steven Temple Books (ABAC/ILAB)

Book number: 20693

Catalogue: Crime and Suspense Fiction

ONIONS, OLIVER

A Case in Camera

NY Macmillan 1921 . Later Printing. Spine lettering a bit dulled, otherwise very good in green cloth with some light wear to the extremities. Endpapers foxed, front hinge just starting, otherwise internally very good. Hardcover. Very Good.

-- Kenneth Mallory Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB

Book number: 16087

Catalogue: Literature

ONIONS, OLIVER,

The Collected Ghost Stories of . ...

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited, 1935. First edition. Thick 8vo. xi, [i], 689 pp. Midnight blue cloth stamped in white. Slight spotting to fore edge, else Fine in very good plus dust jacket (unclipped, spine panel and upper edge of front and back panels somewhat darkened). Signed R.L.H. Lloyd, Oxford 1935. Tymn, Horror Literature 3-187.

-- James Cummins Bookseller

Book number: 242182

ONIONS, OLIVER

The Compleat Bachelor.

London, John Murray. 1915, Reprint. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 196 pages. Clean covers with a nice art nouveau design. Very Good.

-- Tinakori Books

Book number: 3850

Catalogue: Literature

ONIONS, OLIVER

The Compleat Bachelor.

London: Murray 1900. . 196p blue cloth with gilt lettering, yapp edges, gilt to top edge, bookplate on paste sheet, pages unmarked, binding firm, good condition.

-- Plurabelle Books

Book number: PAQ141687

Catalogue: Fiction

ONIONS OLIVER

DEAD OF NIGHT - The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions

Wordsworth Edition, 2010. 1st printing. Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence. Paperback. 9781840226409. fine trade paperback.

-- Fantastic Literature

Book number: FA12.262

Keywords: 9781840226409

ONIONS OLIVER

The Debit Account

London, Nisbet & Co. 1917, First Shilling Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, Crown 8vo. 288 pp, foxing to edges, previous owner inscription dated 1921 on fep, damaged rear hinge and endpaper, d/j chipped and creased all around. Good/Fair.

-- Dee Why Books

Book number: 22146

Catalogue: General Fiction

Keywords: General Fiction

ONIONS, OLIVER.

First Book of Ghost Stories: Widdershins

Mineola, Dover Publications, 1978. Trade paper, very good condition, 206pp. +8pp of adv. Stories were taken from Widdershins first published in 1911.

-- Out of Print Books

Book number: 54955

Keywords: Fiction Stories Ghost Mystery Onions Widdershins

ONIONS, OLIVER

Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions

The Tartarus Press, 2003. Hardcover. 4to. 466 pp. All books in fine collectible condition unless otherwise noted. Orders are professionally packed and shipped promptly. S126. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket .

-- Rain Dog Books

Book number: 54123

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Science Fiction

ONIONS, (OLIVER)

Good Boy Seldom. A Romance of Advertisement

London: Methuen, (1911), First edition. Hardcover , Octavo. Brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. [2], (x), (384) pp + (32) pp August, 1911, publisher's catalogue. Light spots to front cover; foxing to page edges and to text early and late; pencil name on front pastedown; shallow wear at foot of spine; else a VG clean and copy.

-- Steven Temple Books (ABAC/ILAB)

Book number: 23284

Catalogue: Modern Literature

ONIONS, OLIVER

Good Boy Seldom. A Romance of Advertisement (1911)

London, Methuen & Co./Frederick Warne & Co. 1911. Hard Cover. Second Edition. Original brown cloth, decorated in gilt on spine. Corners scuffed, inscription (1913) on front free endpaper, foxing, good. Published one month after the first edition, and issued in the same binding.

-- Richard Beaton

Book number: 02081

Catalogue: Miscellaneous

ONIONS, OLIVER

In Accordance with the Evidence

London: John W. Luce, 1913. First Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 297pp :: 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover marked. Fep missing. Inner hinge cracking. Slight lean to spine .

-- Barter Books

Book number: bbo069

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction First Editions