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Find the spookiest of rare books this All Hallows' Eve, including ghost stories, skeletons, dissections, folklore, and psychological horrors.

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  • First edition of Bram Stoker's vampire classic, a genre-defining masterpiece inspiring numerous reprints, variations, pastiches, stage & screen versions
    First edition of Bram Stoker's vampire classic, a genre-defining masterpiece inspiring numerous reprints, variations, pastiches, stage & screen versions

    STOKER, Bram.
    Dracula. 1897.
    £17,500.00

  • The complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving that make up Los Caprichos by Goya.
    The complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving that make up Los Caprichos by Goya.

    GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de.
    Los Caprichos. 1799.
    £200,000.00

  • A rare, early American edition of surgeon William Cheselden's The Anatomy of the Human Body (1913), published in 1796 under the title Anatomical Tables of the Human Body.
    A rare, early American edition of surgeon William Cheselden's The Anatomy of the Human Body (1913), published in 1796 under the title Anatomical Tables of the Human Body.

    CHESELDEN, William.
    Anatomical Tables of the Human Body. 1796.
    £1,250.00

  • The third edition of this translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy by Henry Francis Cary
    The third edition of this translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy by Henry Francis Cary

    DANTE ALIGHIERI; CARY, Henry Francis (translator).
    [The Divine Comedy]. The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. 1831.
    £950.00

  • A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
    A handsome copy of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

    STEVENSON, Robert Louis.
    Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with Other Fables. 1897.
    £285.00

  • First edition of Samuel Hibbert's Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions, a key materialist explanation of ghost sightings, published in 1824.
    First edition of Samuel Hibbert's Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions, a key materialist explanation of ghost sightings, published in 1824.

    HIBBERT, Samuel.
    Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; 1824.
    £2,750.00

  • First edition of Paulo Mascagni's groundbreaking anatomical atlas of the lymphatic system, Vasorum Lymphaticorum Corporis Humani, published in 1787.
    First edition of Paulo Mascagni's groundbreaking anatomical atlas of the lymphatic system, Vasorum Lymphaticorum Corporis Humani, published in 1787.

    MASCAGNI, Paulo.
    Vasorum Lymphaticorum Corporis Humani Historia et Ichnographia. 1787.
    £7,500.00

  • First edition of Charles Owen's An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents, an attractively illustrated book on the biology and cultraul relevance of snakes, published in 1742.
    First edition of Charles Owen's An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents, an attractively illustrated book on the biology and cultraul relevance of snakes, published in 1742.

    OWEN, Charles.
    An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents: In Two Parts. 1742.
    £1,500.00

  • first edition in book form, a rare example of an early vampire story, 1891
    first edition in book form, a rare example of an early vampire story, 1891

    BARING-GOULD, Sabine.
    Margery of Quether and Other Stories. 1891.
    £875.00

  • First edition of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James.
    First edition of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James.

    JAMES, M.R.
    Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. 1904.
    £4,500.00

  • A rare Book of Fate on fortune-telling, printed in New York at the turn of the century, illustrated with woodcuts
    A rare Book of Fate on fortune-telling, printed in New York at the turn of the century, illustrated with woodcuts

    [FORTUNE-TELLING].
    The Book of Fate, 1823.
    £1,500.00

  • A set of three first editions from Mervyn Peake's Gorenghast trilogy, comprising Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone
    A set of three first editions from Mervyn Peake's Gorenghast trilogy, comprising Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone

    PEAKE, Mervyn.
    Titus Groan [and] Gormenghast [and] Titus Alone. 1946; 1950; 1959.
    £2,200.00

  • Seba, a Dutch apothecary and member of the Dutch East India Company, was one of the prototypical collectors of natural curiosities and exotic species

    [SEBA, Albertus]
    [Southern Common Opossum] [1735]
    £500.00

  • An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body by James Benignus [Jacques-Bénigne] Winslow, reissue of the first English edition, 1734.
    An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body by James Benignus [Jacques-Bénigne] Winslow, reissue of the first English edition, 1734.

    WINSLOW, James Benignus [Jacques-Bénigne]; DOUGLAS, G. (translator).
    An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body. 1734.
    £1,750.00

  • Uncommon, early-20th century relief sculpture of frog anatomy. The publisher's archive copy in the original box.
    Uncommon, early-20th century relief sculpture of frog anatomy. The publisher's archive copy in the original box.

    SCHMID, Bastian.
    Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere: Rana esculenta. Wasserfrosch. [early 20th century].
    £850.00

  • First edition in book form, one of circa 300 copies, of Cahtleen ni Hoolihan A Play in One Act and in Prose by W.B. Yeats
    First edition in book form, one of circa 300 copies, of Cahtleen ni Hoolihan A Play in One Act and in Prose by W.B. Yeats

    YEATS, W.B.
    Cathleen ni Hoolihan. 1902.
    £675.00

  • First edition of Stories of Red Hanrahan by W.B. Yeats, printed at the Dun Emer Press.
    First edition of Stories of Red Hanrahan by W.B. Yeats, printed at the Dun Emer Press.

    YEATS, W.B.
    Stories of Red Hanrahan. 1904.
    £675.00

  • First edition of The God of Glass by Peter Redgrove, 1979.
    First edition of The God of Glass by Peter Redgrove, 1979.

    REDGROVE, Peter.
    The God of Glass. 1979.
    £150.00

  • First UK edition of Psycho together with the first edition of Psycho II signed by the author and designer
    First UK edition of Psycho together with the first edition of Psycho II signed by the author and designer

    BLOCH, Robert.
    Psycho [with] Psycho II. 1960 & Binghamton, NY, Whispers Press, 1982.
    £1,500.00

  • The Light Invisible is the first book by Robert Benson, comprising 15 weird tales, including the ghost story "The Traveller." A fine first edition.
    The Light Invisible is the first book by Robert Benson, comprising 15 weird tales, including the ghost story "The Traveller." A fine first edition.

    BENSON, Robert.
    The Light Invisible. 1903.
    £400.00

  • Revised edition of The Shadow of the Raggedstone by Charles F. Grindrod, with cover art by Austin Osman Spare.
    Revised edition of The Shadow of the Raggedstone by Charles F. Grindrod, with cover art by Austin Osman Spare.

    GRINDROD, Charles F.
    The Shadow of the Raggedstone. 1909.
    £250.00

  • Complete with childlike stick figures and crudely scrawled texts, Shrigley paintings speak to the paranoid fantasies and everyday pathos of adulthood.

    SHRIGLEY, David
    Web
    £988.00

  • An attractive early issue of this classic of Victorian detective fiction, further enhanced by a letter from the author to Mr O'Donnell.
    An attractive early issue of this classic of Victorian detective fiction, further enhanced by a letter from the author to Mr O'Donnell.

    HUME, Fergus W.
    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. [1888].
    £850.00

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