“Valancourt Books
specializes in new editions of rare and sometimes almost entirely
forgotten fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early
twentieth centuries. These are not cheap reprints: the 'Classics'
range comes annotated with scholarly introductions and, in some
cases, contextualizing appendices. […] Valancourt books is to be
lauded for the scope of its ambition. It will spare scholars and the
atmosphere many long-distance journeys to university and copyright
libraries, and makes available to the lay enthusiast some curious
marginalia from the history of the novel.” – Gregory
Norminton, The Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 27, 2009
"Valancourt Books are fast becoming my favourite publisher. They have made it their business, with considerable taste and integrity, to put back into print a considerable amount of work which has been in serious need of republication. Their list has been compiled by editors who know their stuff, bringing back into the light a raft of books I, for one, have been waiting years to read! If you ever felt their were gaps in your reading experience or are simply frustrated that you can't find enough good, substantial fiction in the shops or even online, then this is the publisher for you!" -- Michael Moorcock
"[One] of the more important small presses [...] Valancourt Books makes available in attractive paperback editions fairly rare books from the late 18th century to the present. Here one can find the gothic classics that frightened the heroines of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, the works of Bram Stoker other than Dracula, many of Richard Marsh’s novels, starting with The Beetle, and some of THE stranger weird or decadent literature of the 1890s. How can you possibly go wrong with Florence Marryat’s 1897 The Blood of the Vampire, in which the heroine is the daughter of a mad scientist and a voodoo priestess?" -- Michael Dirda, The American Scholar, December 2012
“Valancourt Books
are to be congratulated for the services they have rendered to the
study of the Gothic. Many [books republished by Valancourt] exist in
such small numbers that reading them would entail considerable
expense, if not for the Valancourt editions. […] [E]dited,
introduced, and annotated by highly respected scholars in the field.
These are not reprints: all have been reset in readable type and are
lovely objects in themselves.” – Prof. Robert Miles, University
of Victoria, Eighteenth Century Fiction (2010)
“Valancourt Books
of Kansas City, Missouri, in an era of shrinking, merging and
vanishing imprints, has been rescuing once-popular late-Victorian
titles largely out of print for years. […] Valancourt's attractive
editions, paperback but sturdy and in large format, often employing
the original cover art and enhanced by solid introductions and
supplementary appendices, may revive some faded or forgotten
reputations. The series should also evoke interest in long-unread
work by familiar names.” – Prof. Stanley Weintraub, University of
Delaware, in ELT: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
(2010)
“[Valancourt
Books is] issuing attractively prepared and priced editions, most
with brief but generally useful introductions that situate the texts
within their times and cultures. These editions are wonderful
resources, and one can only hope that they will be adopted in
sufficient numbers to enable the publisher to continue to add to the
titles available.” – Prof. Stephen Behrendt, University of
Nebraska, in European Romantic Review (2006)
“Valancourt Books
is a godsend. […] [O]ne should be extremely thankful that […]
Valancourt continues to make rare works in the genre more accessible
for study.” – Gothic Studies (2010)
“[S]everal publishers who have been
steadily building up their nineteenth-century lists enjoy more and
more prominence in this lively area of literary history. Especially
noticeable are the endeavors of […] Valancourt, whose fresh
editions of neglected literary works broaden our range of teaching
texts.” – Prof. Joseph Bristow, UCLA, in SEL Studies in
English Literature 1500-1900 (2011)