Stanley J. Weyman The Man in Black

FABES, GILBERT H. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS: POINTS AND VALUES Third Series, London: W. and G. Foyle Limited, 1932.
Facing title page: Limited Edition: Limited to 750 copies being Seven Hundred for Sale, and Fifty for Presentation. This is number 363. Book Plate of Paul Lemperly, noted collector of Association Books to paste down. Black cloth boards and spine, gilt to spine. Dw tan not price clipped, sunned spine with rubbing, tiny chips to tips. Three small pieces of paper stuck to front inside flap. xi, 83 pages with Notes (blank pages).

Limited Edition Introduction; The Future of Modern First Editions; Correction to 'second series' "The Lost Girl," D.H. Lawrence; In this 'third series' the author covers: J. M.. Barrie's "Courage" Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, 1922; "Der Tag or The Tragic Man," Hodder and Stoughton, 1914; "Walker, London," Samuel French. H.E. Bates: "Charlotte's Row," Jonothan Cape, 1931; Hilaire Belloc: "Mr. Clutterbuck's Election," Eveleigh Nash, 1908; Arnold Bennet: "The Feast of St. Friend," Hodder and Stoughton, n.d., "The Glimpse," Chapman and Hall, 1909, 'the Plain Man and His Wife," "These Twain," "The Truth About An Author," "Those United States". Thomas Butke: "The Wind and The Rain"; C.K. Chesterton: "The Return of Don Quixote"; Joseph Conrad: "Tales of the Unrest," "Within The Tides"; Hubert Crackanthorpe: "Wreckage"; John Davidson: "The Last Ballad and Other Poems," "The Triumph of Mammon". Rhys Davies: "A Bed of Feathers," "A Pig In A Poke"; W.H. Davies: "the True Travellers; C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) :Sylvie and Bruno Concluded," A. Conan Doyle: "The Parasite"; Jerome K. Jerome: "Three Men In A Boat"; Robert Lewis Stevenson: Virginibus Puerisque; A Footnote to History; Father Damien; Kidnapped; Records of a Family of Engineers; St. Iives; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; The Merry Men; The Wrong Box. Hugh Walpole: the Green Mirror. H.G. Wells: Boon; Certain Personal Matters; Joan and Peter; Mr. Britling sees it Through; The Research Magnificent; the War in the Air; The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman; Stanley Weyman: "From the Memoirs of a Minister of France; The Abbess of Vlaye; W.B. Yeats: Deidre. Additional authors' books: Maurice Hewlett, Aldous Huxley, W.W. Jacobs, Margaret Kennedy, Rudyard kipling, D.H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie, John Masefield, W. Somerset Maugham, Alice Meynell, George Moore, C.E. Montague, R. H. Mottram, H.H. Munro, Alfred Noyes, Eden Phillpotts, T.F. Powys, J.B. Priestley, A. Quiller-Couch, Erich Remarque, Siegfried Sasson, M.P. Shiel, etc. Cloth Very Good in Very Good DW

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Weyman, Stanley J. THE MAN IN BLACK, New York Optimus Printing Company no date 0000 ; fester Einband / hard cover
Fair

Reprint. In Bleiler's original 1948 Checklist, but not in the revised 1978 Checklist, nor any of the other usual references, so any fantastic content is doubtful. Listed in Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 422]. Grayish pictorial cloth lettered/decorated in dark brown, 175 pages, floral design endpapers. Some staining and names blacked-out at the upper right corner of two pages, but generally a Good or better copy. Reprint No Jacket Hard Cover; Reprint

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Weyman, Stanley J.. THE MAN IN BLACK. N.D..
Corners bumped on green decorated boards. Tear at spine head. Binding loosening but still being held firm by cloth. A short and spellbinding Cinderella tale with a monkey, a cruel, crafty-eyed showman and the evil of the man in black, a charlatan and wizard. An early horror tale? ? ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 214 pages.

Hardcover, Mershon Company; Fair with no dust jacket.

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Weyman, Stanley J: The Man in Black, London Gryphon Books Ltd

Red hardback cloth cover G : in Good condition without dustwrapper. Ex-lib Reprint 190pp :: 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5") English

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