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Sub Rosa: Available Copies

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Cranberry cloth covered boards, gold stamped titles at spine, moderate shelf wear to covers, edges, corners and head and tail of spine, corners straight. Book body tight, some staining at rear of book where final pages meet the endpaper, pages lightly age toned. Red dust jacket shows moderate shelf wear, half-inch tear at rear corner of head of spine, white titles at front, black titles at spine, price intact, archival Brodart protected.

Supernatural short story collection first published by Victor Gollancz in 1968: this first Tartarus Press edition has a new five page introduction by R. B. Russell. Limited to 350 copies. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with colour publicity postcard laid in.

First edition/printing thus, reprinting the eight stories from the 1968 Gollancz first edition plus intro and essay. Typically handsome Tartarus Press edition. Book and jacket each in Fine condition! 1/350 copies Collection is on the Top 100 Horror Books [Jones & Newman 1988]. Scarce.

First edition. Fine in a fine dust wrapper, not price clipped, sharp cornered, tight square spine, a superior copy. Laid in publishers compliments slip. Collects 8 tales including: "Ravissante", "The Inner Room", "Never Visit Venice", "The Unsettled Dust", "The Houses of the Russians", "No Stronger Than a Flower", "The Cicerones", "Into the Wood

Octavo, boards. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. [Reference: Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64]. A fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with slight fade to the spine panel. (23621)

First edition. 256 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine in fine price clipped dust jacket. Tiny ownership notation on flyleaf

First edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Eight ''terror stories''.Tail of spine slightly pushed, otherwise fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper.

SUB ROSA, Gollancz, 1968, first edition, very slight dust-soiling to the t.p.e.'s, else fine in like dust-wrapper with one short closed tear.

The book is in fine condition.

Maroon cloth with gilt to spine. Original dust jacket, unclipped with 25/- net price to flap. First edition. Text block clean. A near fine copy.

First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 256pp. This is a true first UK edition, first printing (first impression) with 1968 and no statement of reprint on the copyright page. A very good plus clean copy, with light spotting to top of text block, in a very good dust jacket that is price clipped with rubbing to the extremities, small nick to one corner, a slight tape shadow to inner front flap. Inscribed to the front end page [ a moving present to Jill, with Love from Robert ] also signed in full and dated [ Robert Aickman August 1977 ]

Octavo, printed wrappers. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. [Reference: Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64]. A few light spots to page edges, "uncorrected" written on cover, light stain to lower left front and right lower rear covers, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild wear and closed tear to head of spine panel as the jacket is not trimmed to fit the proof copy. A scarce proof. (30697) Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition.