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Aickman, Robert. THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2001]. Limited edition. 500 copies printed. Autobiography of Aickman's early years. Originally published in 1966 and now quite rare. Fine in dust jacket. $30.00

Anonymous editor [Rosilie Parker]. STRANGE TALES. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2003]. First edition. 300 copies printed. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best anthology in 2004. Collects fourteen tales of supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction by many writers previously published by Tartarus Press, including Quentin Crisp, Rhys Hughes, Mark Valentine, William Charlton, Tina Rath, Nina Allan, Maynard & Sims, and Don Tumasonis. Excellent stories, several of which remind of Aickman, de la Mare and Metcalfe. Some bumping to spine and corners, else fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Baker, Frank. MISS HARGREAVES. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2004]. Limited edition. 300 copies printed. Introduction by Glen Cavaliero. Originally published in 1940 by Eyre and Spotiswoode. "Two friends invent an acquaintance with the imaginary Miss Hargreaves to impress an innocent, and then find their fantasy embarrassingly fleshed out; attempts to persuade her of her nonexistence inevitably prove inadequate, and the business of procuring her banishment from the world becomes vexatious. A comic tour de force."- Barron (ed.) Fantasy Literature, 3-13. Some bumping to top and bottom of spine, else fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Charlton, William. UNDESIRABLE GUESTS AND OTHER STORIES. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2002]. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. Fourteen tales of unease. Fine in dust jacket. $65.00

Crisp, Quentin S. MORBID TALES. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2004]. Limited edition. 300 copies printed. Foreword by Mark Samuels. A collection of eight strange tales. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

De Bernieres, Louis. GUNTER WEBER'S CONFESSION. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, 2001. First edition, signed copy printed on Zerkall paper. Pamphlet, stiff terra cotta wrappers, color lithograph frontispiece by David Johnson. Limited to 300 copies hand-set in Perpetua type by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. Copies numbered 1-100 are printed on Zerkall paper and are signed by the author. Copies numbered 101-300 are printed on Teton paper are unsigned. The final chapter of Captain Corelli's Mandolin written shortly after the book was published and first published in the Sunday Times May 24 1998. A fine copy. $75.00

De Bernieres, Louis. GUNTER WEBER'S CONFESSION. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, 2001. First edition, unsigned copy printed on Teton paper. Pamphlet, stiff terra cotta wrappers, color lithograph frontispiece by David Johnson. Limited to 300 copies hand-set in Perpetua type by Alan Anderson at the Tragara Press. Copies numbered 1-100 are printed on Zerkall paper and are signed by the author. Copies numbered 101-300 are printed on Teton paper are unsigned. The final chapter of Captain Corelli's Mandolin written shortly after the book was published and first published in the Sunday Times May 24 1998. A fine copy. $45.00

Falkner, John Meade. THE LOST STRADIVARIUS: INCLUDING "A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT MARRIAGE" AND "CHARALAMPIA". [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2000, 2001]. Limited edition, first book publication of two additional stories. 300 numbered copies. Pictorial blue cloth. Bleiler calls this short novel: "A sophisticated supernatural novel, concerned with music, evil, and mysticism...One of the 19th century classics"- Guide, 621. "A Midsummer's Night Marriage" is an effective ghost story and "Charalampia" a teaching tale that alludes to the mystic. Both are rich in Romaticism and Catholic imagery. All previous hardcover printings of this novel are scarce. Small abrasion to cloth of rear panel, else fine in dust jacket. $50.00

Gale, John. A DAMASK OF THE DEAD. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2002]. First edition. Limited to 250 signed copies. Dark blue cloth stamped in copper with dark blue endpapers and a silk ribbon. The first collection of this writer of decadent and Gothic fantasies. The short tales are reminiscent of Lord Dunsany's early stories with dark romanticism and melancholy images. A beautiful collection. Fine in pictorial yellow dust jacket. $35.00

Hartley, L[eslie] P[oles]. THE COLLECTED MACABRE STORIES. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2001]. First edition. Limited to 350 copies. Collects 37 of Hartley's supernatural and weird tales including three that are not in The Complete Short Stories (Hamish, 1973). Fine in a dust jacket. $50.00

Heard, Gerald. DROMENON: THE BEST WEIRD STORIES OF GERALD HEARD. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2001]. First edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. All of these stories appeared in Heard's two fine collections published by Vanguard, The Great Fog(1944) and The Lost Cavern (1948). An extra tale included here from the British Cassell edition of The Great Fog, "Despair Deferred" was not included in the American edition. An excellent collection of strange tales, some with religious motifs. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00

Heron-Alllen, Edward and Selina Dolaro. THE PRINCESS DAPHNE. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2001]. Limited edition. Although limitation states 300 numbered copies only about150 copies were published. Decadent fantasy originally published in 1880s. "A bizarre and sensational novel of psychic vampirism, mesmerism and massage about the reunion of the divided soul."- Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 88. Just a touch of bumping at top of spine, else fine in dust jacket. $75.00

Howard, Elizabeth Jane. THREE MILES UP AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2003]. First edition. Limited to 350 copies. Introduction by Glen Cavaliero. Four fine tales, three of which first appeared in the collection shared with Robert Aickman, We are for the Dark (1951), which is now quite scarce. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Hughes, Rhys. STORIES FROM A LOST ANTHOLOGY. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2002]. First edition. Limited to 400 copies. Introduction by Michael Moorcock. Outrageously weird and grotesque fantasies. Fine in dust jacket. $45.00

Lindsay, David. THE HAUNTED WOMAN. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2004]. Limited edition. 300 copies printed. With an afterword by Douglas Anderson. Dark purple cloth, purple endpapers, and silk ribbon. A metaphysical romance that includes a haunted house. "A strangely moving book, profound in its thought and on the whole well executed"- Bleiler, Guide, 1020. ""An extraordinary metaphysical fantasy, whose great intensity of feeling is not lessened by its painstaking attention to matters of theory."- Barron (ed.) Fantasy Literature, 3-219. Fine in dust jacket. $45.00

Lorrain, Jean. NIGHTMARES OF AN ETHER-DRINKER. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2002]. First edition. Limited to 350 copies. Pictorial black cloth stamped in red and gold on spine and front panels, marbled endpapers, red silk ribbon. With an excellent introduction and translated from the French by Brian Stableford. Collects twenty-seven short tales. Lorrain was a major figure of fin-de-siecle period otherwise known as the Decadent or Symbolist movement.The stories here were first published between 1887 and 1899 and are first translated here. As a journalist and critic Lorrain was either friend or foe with many of the significant writers in the movement. He was indeed an ether addict for a time incorporating many of his nightmarish hallucinations into his prose. The drug caused internal ulceration that eventually led to his death. These stories are an important document of late 19th century horror literature. Fine in dust jacket. $50.00

Machen, Arthur. THE GREEN ROUND. [Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [2000]. Limited edition. 450 numbered copies. Short horror novel originally published in 1933. A man is haunted by malicious Little People. Bleiler, Guide, 1081. Fine in a dust jacket. $35.00

Reid, Forrest. UNCLE STEPHEN. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2001]. Limited edition. 350 copies. Mystical novel notably influence by Reid's good friend Walter de la Mare. Fine in dust jacket. $25.00

Sarban (pseudonym of John Wall). THE DOLL MAKER AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNCANNY. [Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [2002]. Second Tartarus Press edition. Originally published by Peter Davies in 1953. Classic supernatural novel with two other tales that were left out of the American paperback edition. "Excellent"- Bleiler, The Guide, 1442. "The writing is precise and sensual, the characterization subtle and suggestive and the sexual subtext most provocative."- Barron (ed) Horror Literature, 4-261. Fine in a dust jacket. $35.00

Shiel, M. P. PRINCE ZALESKI. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2002]. Limited edition. 400 copies. The design on the boards and title page are by Aubrey Beardsley from the Keynotes first edition published by John Lane in 1895. Marbled endpapers, silk ribbon. Introduction by Brian Stableford and bibliographic notes by R. B. Russell. Collects the original three novellas along with three later collaborations with John Gawsworth. Detective stories with a very decadent tone. Fine in dust jacket. $50.00

Valentine, Mark. MASQUES AND CITADELS: MORE TALES OF THE CONNOISSEUR. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2003]. First edition. Signed by Valentine. Limited to 300 copies. Strange tales featuring the occult detective known as the Connoisseur. Ten stories of which two are co-authored with John Howard. Fine in dust jacket. $45.00

Valentine, Mark (editor). WORMWOOD NUMBER 1: A JOURNAL DEDICATED TO WRITINGS ABOUT FANTASY, SUPERNATURAL AND DECADENT LITERATURE. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2003]. First edition. Wrappers. This first issue includes essays on Gustav Meyrink, E. R. Eddison, Ernest Bramah, as well as essays by Mark Samuels on Thomas Ligotti and Brian Stableford on obscure decadent literature. Fine. $15.00

Valentine, Mark (editor). WORMWOOD NUMBER 2: LITERATURE OF THE FANTASTIC SUPERNATURAL AND DECADENT. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, Spring, 2004. First edition. Wrappers. Includes an essay on Oliver Onions by Glen Cavaliero, essays on the Godwin family, Fernando Pessoa, Clark Ashton Smith and others on obscure decadent literature. Fine. $15.00

White, Jon Manchip. ECHOES AND SHADOWS. [North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [2003]. First edition. Limited to 300 copies. Collects twelve uneasy tales and an afterword by this Welsh writer. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00