[Rarebooks] FS: Holidays With Hobgoblins. Costello. Cruickshank illus. 1861. Two first editions on ebay.

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Greetings Fellow Goblins,

Is there a difference between a goblin and a hobgoblin??

Anyway, we are pleased to offer this custom bound edition of Holidays With
Hobgoblins, ex-libris of Francis Towner Laney.

 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Holidays-With-Hobgoblins-Costello-Cruikshank-1861-First-Edition-1-2-Leather-Rare-/291912152457?hash=item43f751f589:g:DC8AAOSwLF1YAnCU

$625. As always, 20% discount for a direct sale.  Please e-mail if
interested.

Please also see our ad for another 1861 first edition in cloth
$375....just in time for Halloween....  and both books are quite a bit
nicer than others being offered at this moment.

Many thanks,
Karen Cinquemani
H.A.S. Beane Books

Holidays With Hobgoblins: and Talk of Strange Things. By Dudley Costello.
With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: John Camden Hotten, 1861.
Crown Octavo (7" x 4.5"). 332 pp. with 8 pp. of publisher's ads at back.
Custom-bound pebbled dark olive green half leather with dark green and
gold marbled boards with gilt spine lettering and decoration, five raised
bands. Gilt rules. Top edge gilt (bright). B&W frontispiece etching by
Cruikshank (no tissue present). With three additional full-page black and
white etchings by Cruikshank and two smaller eighteenth-century etchings
(unsigned but captioned) used as chapter headings. Quarter-page note
tipped in after table of contents explains that Cruikshank designed the
frontispiece expressly for this volume, while the additional illustrations
are earlier Cruikshank designs borrowed to illustrate this work.

Very Good condition (some mottling of leather and rub at edges of spine
and corners; spine leather sunned to brown; light foxing on edges and
verso of plates, as well as on facing pages of plates; sporatic finger
soil; paper age-toned; thicker paper of full-page plates show a narrow
water stain along front edge, but stain is not evident on pages of text;
red bound-in ribbon bookmark frayed short at end; bookplate of former
owner, Francis Towner Laney, on front past-down). No other marks or names.
Binding secure.

Irish author Dudley Costello (1803-1865) served in the British army;
worked as a draughtsman for famed naturalist Georges Cuvier; copied
illuminated manuscripts, inspiring renewed public interest in this
medieval art form; and finally became a foreign correspondent, journalist,
and editor for a variety of British newspapers. He wrote both travel
memoirs and fiction. Holidays with Hobgoblins is a combination of the two:
a collection of fictional "travel writing" and strange tales, including
location-specific stories of the supernatural such as "The Ghost of Pit
Pond" and "The Haunted House Near Hampstead."

George Cruikshank (1792-1878) is a famed illustrator and caricaturist,
most noted for his political cartoons and his etchings illustrating the
works of Charles Dickens. Holidays With Hobgoblins is scarce, illusive
Cruikshank title, and this is in appealing, collectible condition.

Formerly owned by Francis Towner Laney (c.1914-1958), writer, editor, and
publisher of The Acolyte, an extrememly early fanzine devoted to the
writings of H.P. Lovecraft. The Acolyte, published from 1942 to 1946, is
regarded as fundamental to the incipient development of Cthulhu and
Lovecraftian mythology.

29 libraries on WorldCat own this 1861 First Edition including New York
Public Library, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge and Oxford
Universities.  A second edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1874
and is catalogued by six libraries.

Complete list of stories: Shaving a Ghost -- The Ghost of Pit Pond --
Superstitions and Traditions -- Monsters -- The Watcher of the Dead -- The
Haunted House near Hampstead -- Dragons, Griffins, and Salamanders --
Alchemy and Gunpowder -- Mother Shipton -- Bird History -- Witchcraft and
Old Boguey -- Crabs -- Lobsters -- The Apparition of Monsieur Bodry..




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