'Third Edition' plug at top front jacket flap, no printed statement of printing. Arlen's very uncommon horror novel of a female killer who stalks the streets of London in the near future and included supernatural elements. 'A short tale of a voracious sex murderess, 'Jane the Ripper' the novel is related in a jaunty and refined tone that dramatically offsets its depraved content. Found in Robert Karl Wagner's list of Best Supernatural Horror novels. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #40750

First American Edition. Brewster dustjacket art. Popular French author's mystery novel translated by Anne Green with horror elements. The work is set in the French countryside and concerns a priest with a dark secret and who discovers a double homicide. Near Fine, moderate cocking, in Very Good dustjacket, small chip and rubbing at top spine end, some creasing and signs of some shelf wear to edges. Item #14541

Fifth Printing, but possibly the first photoplay edition with new dustjacket artwork, illustrated with eight stills / scenes from the Archibald Nettlefold Production starring Gibb McLaughlin and Mabel Poulton. A scarce photoplay with horror elements. Very Good, partial cracking (but still firm) at rear inner hinge, in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chipping at spine ends. Item #40752

First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the photoplay directed by Browning, The Blackbird starring Lon Chaney, Renée Adorée and Owen Moore. Three photographic stills bound in are full-page portrait shots of Adorée, Moore, and Tod Browning. Chaney is depicted on the front cover and at the rear panel in six small stills from his most famous productions including Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Unholy Three, The Tower of Lies, The Monster and He Who Gets Slapped. Original wrappers. An attractive Very Good plus copy. Item #27265

First Edition. F.M. dustjacket art. Collection of nine short stories, including a Bleiler listed supernatural tale, All Hallows, as well as Mr. Kempe, a horror story of a mad recluse near Porlock. Near Fine but for top corner of front endpaper clipped, in Very Good dustjacket, spine darkened, dime sized chip at top spine end. Item #25694

First Photoplay Edition, with still at front dustjacket panel and centerfold scene from the Equitable Motion Pictures film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Clara Kimball Young and Wilton Lackaye (with sets by Ben Carre). 'Trilby and Billee fall in love, but their happiness is thwarted by an evil mesmerist named Svengali, who becomes obsessed with having Trilby for himself'. Includes horror elements. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few small edge chips and wear, top spine end with dime sized chip. Item #41048

First American Edition. A Clue Club Mystery. First Bulldog Drummond title to have been written, at least partially, by Fairlie. Mystery novel with horror elements involving 'The Strangler', "a phantom whose only trace is the dead left in the wake of nefarious deeds". Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, several scotch tape shadows at verso, some darkening from tape at exterior. Item #22886

First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, with plug for the Paramount Picture at front jacket panel. "The strange adventures of Dr. Cyclops, the super-scientist, [who in the Peruvian jungle] discovered how to reduce people to one fifth their natural size." Novelized from the popular Paramount Pictures horror film of the same name directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and starring Albert Dekker and Thomas Coley. Near Fine but for a vertical tape shadow at front and rear pastedowns, in very attractive Fine dustjacket (that had been stored separately from the book all these many years) with signs of vertical crease at rear spine edge. Item #34262

First Edition. Wenck dustjacket art. Scarce horror and murder mystery listed in Hubin of a fiend that "preys upon women, enslaves and tortures them, and finishes them off with bestial cruelty" and the secret agent bent on its destruction. Very Good, some modest cloth wear at edges, mild cocking, in Very Good dustjacket, red at spine partially faded, some shelf wear, shallow loss at spine ends, flap corners and few edges. Item #24724

First Edition. Allan McNab dustjacket art and illustrations. Short story collection missed by both Hubin and Bleiler despite jacket blurb stating: "There are tales of horror, of mystery, of romance. There are grave settings and gay settings. An atmospheric wandering in various moods of fiction". Very Good but for front inner hinge well cracked, with webbing showing and some weakness, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end and few edges, nicks at mid-rear spine edge, lower spine end with quarter sized chip. Item #22424

First Edition. Mystery novel of horror and intrigue compared at dustjacket flap to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Almost Near Fine, some modest signs of wear, in lovely crisp almost Fine dustjacket (no doubt stored separate from the book for 86 years). Item #31455

Second Impression (but actually First Trade Edition, after a Limited Edition of 100 copies). The author was a famous reclusive and suffered from hypergraphia. Very scarce Vampire themed theatrical play. Very Good but for lower two inches of spine material (black board) lacking, in Very Good dustjacket, nickel sized chip at lower front panel. Item #29544

First Edition. Hubin listed mystery novel of a man who is emotionally distressed by the challenge of making a living. He takes on a one year post as a rich man's personal secretary and finds himself in a huge old country house in which strange things happen and which Renshaw must explain. Early Horror title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips, nickel sized chip at lower front panel. Item #21240