Dream Warnings and Mysteries 1888 (Ghost Stories-Dreamland and Ghostland)

Dream Warnings and Mysteries, First edition thus 1888 George Redway, London.

Condition: Good, 318pp. Publisher's original powder blue illustrated cloth with wonderfully atmospheric image of a spectral woman floating down a stairway. Corners are rubbed/bumped, rubbing along the edges of the boards, fading/thinning of the cloth along the hinge lengths. Titles and designs have faded but are clearly visible, gilt stamped titles to the spine have faded with rubbing to spine tips. Original charcoal endpapers, the pages are tightly bound and very clean, hinges have weakened in a couple of places but the binding is holding firm. Showing its age a little, but a good honest copy of an extremely rare volume, it's one of those books that looks haunted!

This wonderful collection of Ghost Stories was originally part of a triple decker called 'Dreamland and Ghostland' , a series of 3 volumes of short stories written by various authors including Arthur Conan Doyle and published by George Redway in october 1887.
The Conan Doyle stories in vol. 2 and 3 are the first to appear in book form in England.
Each volumes were reissued separately in november 1888 and retitled as follow :
* Vol 1. > Dream Warnings and Mysteries (This volume/no Conan Doyle)
* Vol 2. > Strange Stories of Coincidence and Ghostly Adventures
* Vol 3. > Ghost Stories and Presentiments

Volume 1; Dream Warnings and Mysteries (This volume/no Conan Doyle)
Contains
* Preface
* Mab, the Woman of the Dream (anonymous)
* Fore-Armed, by A. Savile
* Only Ten Minutes; or, What My Dream Told Me (anonymous)
* The Ghost of Lawford Hall (anonymous)
* A Strange Fact (anonymous)
* A Double Event; or 200 to 1, by D. Belgrave
* A Warning Bell (anonymous)
* Cousin Geoffrey's Chamber, by Mrs. Henry Clifford
* Three Strange Stories, by C. A. M.
* The Brand of Cain; or, What Could It Be? (anonymous)
* Unmasked by a Bullet, by B. H. West
* Twelve O'Clock, Noon (anonymous)
* Seen in the Mirror (anonymous)