Explores the myths and beliefs surrounding vampires and relates accounts of their activities from the eleventh century

The natural history of the vampire

Religion & Spirituality

MAsters, Anthony

Occult & Paranormal

Rupert Hart-Davis

The story of a war fought against the diabolic Doctor Hoffman, who wanted to demolish the structures of reason and liberate man from the chains of the reality principle for ever.

The infernal desire machines of Doctor Hoffman: A novel

CARTER, ANGELA

Literature & Fiction

Encounters with animals

Science & Math

DURRELL,GERALD

Nature & Ecology

Bound in the publisher's original brick red cloth with the spine stamped in copper. Minor soiling to the back cover of the dust jacket, otherwise it is in very good condition. The book has the previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper, otherwise clean and bright and in fine condition.

A Bibliography of Ezra Pound (Soho Bibliogs.)

Gallup, Donald

Reference

, 158 pages, with frontispiece by Joe Mugnaini

Fahrenheit 451

Ray. Bradbury

Classics

Ghosts is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her deceased husband and by her son who has inherited syphilis from his philandering father. Ghosts is a scathing indictment of Victorian society in which Ibsen refutes the notion that if one simply fulfills one's duty rather than following one's desires then a good and noble life will be achieved. Scandalous in its day for its frank discussion of venereal disease and marriage infidelity, Ghosts remains to this day an intense psychological drama and sharp social criticism.Ghosts was written during the autumn of 1881 and was published in December of the same year. It was not performed in the theatre until May 1882, when a Danish touring company produced it in the Aurora Turner Hall in Chicago. Ibsen disliked the translator William Archer's use of the word 'Ghosts' as the play's title, whereas the Norwegian Gengangere would be more accurately translated as The Revenants , which literally means The Ones who Return .

Ghosts

Ibsen, Henrik, Meyer, Michael

Dramas & Plays

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1977. British hardcover with dustjacket. "The Illustrated Man" is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952, and today is considered a seminal work of science fiction.

The Illustrated Man

Science Fiction & Fantasy

BRADBURY,RAY

Science Fiction

Menagerie Manor

Travel

Travel Writing

Once is Enough

Smeeton, Miles

Dwight Long took his little "idle Hour" from Seattle down among the islands, to Tahiti and Samoa and Tonga and all those lovely far-off places, and weathered hurricanes and avoided reefs, and paid his bills and pacified his crews, and made friends and sailed his way leisurely and pleasantly along. What a life! Yet it takes courage of a high order and determination rare in these days, and a sea-skill born of long experience; and the ability to suffer much, and find contentment and companionship in one's own mind, With these words Alan Villiers introduces the story of a young American who went cruising all round the world in a 32-foot auxiliary ketch. -------'Another worthy addition to Mariners library and easily one of the best. Nothing daunted this young American, and practically everything happened at one time or another. He dad a fire on board, bad leaks several times, he lost his dog over the side in one gale, and half his mainmast in another, came perilously near stranding on several occasions and negotiated the Red Sea on an 88-year-old chart'. --Yachting Monthly

Sailing All Seas (Mariners Library)

LONG, DWIGHT

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