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Hitchcock, Alfred (Editor) and Banbery, Fred (Illustrator).
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery Eleven Spooky Stories for Young People
New York, Random House,
1962, Hard Cover,
illus: Fred Banbery, Condition: Very Good/Very Good, "The two most misunderstoon groups in our society are teenagers and ghosts". Featuring the very best nine of the very best ghost writers. The stories are: Miss Emmeline Takes off, Walter Brooks; The Valley of the Beasts, Algernon Blackwood; The Haunted Trailer, Robert Arthur; The Upper Berth, F. Marion Crawford; The Wonderful Day, Robert Arthur; The Truth About Pyecraft, H.G. Wells; Housing Problem, Henry Kuttner; In A Dim Room, Lord Dunsany; Obstinate Uncle Otis, Robert Arthur; The Waxwork, A.M. Burrage; The Isle of Voices, Robert Louis Stevenson. Glossy color picture boards. DW same color illustration, child peeking from cover, menacing shadow, with head of Hitchcock as headboard, black title panel red and white lettering, 395/395. Closed tear to lower spine edge, few closed lower edge tears. Front inside flap edge is glued to itself creating a 1/4 tuck, flap lettering readable, pale stain lower edge. Rear lower edge few small chips. Green and black illustrated end papers by Fred Banbery. All else very clean, white text, solidly bound. sm 4 to, 206 pp
(Alfred, Hitchcock, S, Ghostly, Gallery, Alfred, Hitchcock, For, Children, Ghost, Stories, In A, Dim, Room, Lord, Dunsany, The Truth, About, Pyecraft, H, G, Wells, The Upper, Berth, F, Marion, Crawford, Obstinate, Uncle, Otis, Robert, Arthur, The Isle, Of, Voices, Robert, Louis, Stevenson) Cat No. 2641.
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Hitchcock, Alfred (Editor) and Banbery, Fred (Illustrator).
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery Eleven Spooky Stories for Young People
New York, Random House,
1962, Hard Cover,
illus: Fred Banbery, Condition: Very Good/Very Good, "The two most misunderstoon groups in our society are teenagers and ghosts". Featuring the very best nine of the very best ghost writers. The stories are: Miss Emmeline Takes off, Walter Brooks; The Valley of the Beasts, Algernon Blackwood; The Haunted Trailer, Robert Arthur; The Upper Berth, F. Marion Crawford; The Wonderful Day, Robert Arthur; The Truth About Pyecraft, H.G. Wells; Housing Problem, Henry Kuttner; In A Dim Room, Lord Dunsany; Obstinate Uncle Otis, Robert Arthur; The Waxwork, A.M. Burrage; The Isle of Voices, Robert Louis Stevenson. Glossy color picture boards. DW same color illustration, child peeking from cover, menacing shadow, with head of Hitchcock as headboard, black title panel red and white lettering, 395/395. Closed tear to lower spine edge, few closed lower edge tears. Front inside flap edge is glued to itself creating a 1/4 tuck, flap lettering readable, pale stain lower edge. Rear lower edge few small chips. Green and black illustrated end papers by Fred Banbery. All else very clean, white text, solidly bound. sm 4 to, 206 pp
(Alfred, Hitchcock, S, Ghostly, Gallery, Alfred, Hitchcock, For, Children, Ghost, Stories, In A, Dim, Room, Lord, Dunsany, The Truth, About, Pyecraft, H, G, Wells, The Upper, Berth, F, Marion, Crawford, Obstinate, Uncle, Otis, Robert, Arthur, The Isle, Of, Voices, Robert, Louis, Stevenson) Cat No. 2641.
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Lewton, Val.
No Bed of Her Own
New York, Triangle Books,
1948, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Early novel of Val Lewton before his successful horror film career. Young girl from a small town (during the depression) decides to move to N.Y.C. A strange, exciting story of a woman's desire for love and security at a time when there is no money to try to build either. Originally published in 1932; according to Joel Siegel's The Reality of Terror, this book was so succesful it was translated & published in 12 countries. Colorful picture boards, of girl in a racey bohemian type outfit, mild spotting, few closed tears to upper spine end, rubbing of spine ends and edges, foredges red stained, mild toning to text. First page small closed edge tear. All else clean, tightly bound. Classic. sm 8 vo, 237 pp Lewton was a premier Horror film producer and writer in the forties (Cat Woman 1 & II, Lepoard Man, Body Snatcher and Bedlam (also writer) and many others.
(Val, Lewton, No, Bed, Of, Her, Own, Bad, Girl, Novels, Vintage, Novels) Cat No. 2642.
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Lewton, Val.
No Bed of Her Own
New York, Triangle Books,
1948, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Early novel of Val Lewton before his successful horror film career. Young girl from a small town (during the depression) decides to move to N.Y.C. A strange, exciting story of a woman's desire for love and security at a time when there is no money to try to build either. Originally published in 1932; according to Joel Siegel's The Reality of Terror, this book was so succesful it was translated & published in 12 countries. Colorful picture boards, of girl in a racey bohemian type outfit, mild spotting, few closed tears to upper spine end, rubbing of spine ends and edges, foredges red stained, mild toning to text. First page small closed edge tear. All else clean, tightly bound. Classic. sm 8 vo, 237 pp Lewton was a premier Horror film producer and writer in the forties (Cat Woman 1 & II, Lepoard Man, Body Snatcher and Bedlam (also writer) and many others.
(Val, Lewton, No, Bed, Of, Her, Own, Bad, Girl, Novels, Vintage, Novels) Cat No. 2642.
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Clark, Joan.
Connie Carl at Rainbow Ranch
Chicago, The Goldsmith Publishing Company,
1939, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Scarce find with DW, a Mildred A. Wirt Benson book, famous girls series writer. This is not part of a series. Yellow boads with decorative "g" initials for publisher, pale blue spine, mild fading, blue lettering. DW color of Connie and horse jumping of fence, orange spine, pictorial, small chips to spine ends, and lower edge, illustrated end papers. Flaps blank. Tape end stains to f.e.p. Rear cover "Boys and Girls Books" by Goldsmith. Clean white text, solidly bound. sm 8 vo, 251 pp
(Mildred, A, Wirt, Benson, Books, Connie, Carl, At, Rainbow, Ranch, Joan, Clark, Girls, Juvenile, Books, Vintage, Girls, Books, Westerns, For, Girls) Cat No. 2643.
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