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London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-328 [Note: first leaf is a blank], original decorated brown cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, Heinemann windmill device stamped in blind on rear panel. First...

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1996, 1999, 2000 & 2005]. Octavo, four volumes, boards. First U. S. editions. The first four books of A Song of Fire and Ice. "The quality of...

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazines. Collects twelve stories with Anthony Armstrong, Victor Canning, Anthony Boucher, Stuart Palmer, John D. MacDonald...

London: Robinson Publishing, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of linked stories. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-241.

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1992]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. "The pizza-delivery-man hero also leads another existence in the 'metaverse' (a term Stephenson coined), a virtual reality where...

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "An envoy visits a watery colonized world which has been quarantined from hi-tech trade because of the killing-off of its alien inhabitants...

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition.

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Edited with an introduction by Jack Adrian. This is a collection of psychic detective stories originally published in 1919 in the Premier magazine. The second...

Chicago: Best Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains fiction by Will Oursler and Q. Patrick as well as a Simon Templar "The Saint" short story by Leslie Charteris. This magazine...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 742 copies printed. "A collection of all the poems Wandrei wished to preserve, taken largely from his earlier collections, ECSTASY AND OTHER POEMS and...

Garden City: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Generic inscription and signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twelve stories selected by the author from 1939-1972. Introduction by Asimov. Preceded...

New York: Tor, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fantasy novel, the third book in Mistborn series.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1964]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A picaresque novel set several centuries after a nuclear holocaust. "In the fourth century 'after the Deluge' a medieval world, dominated by the...

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1920. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] [1-3] 4-308 [309-312: blank], three inserted plates, original green light green cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First U....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories including "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!," "To the Chicago Abyss," and "The Anthem Sprinters." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural...

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1977. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Published in June 1977, same month as the U. K. edition published by Jonathan Cape. Psychological horror/mystery novel involving...

[New York]: Gnome Press, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Jack Williamson, Don A. Stuart (John W. Campbell, Jr.), John Taine and...

San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. Trade edition. Nine stories of early fiction, including his first published story, all previously uncollected, two of which have been re-written for this book...

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946-1959. Octavo, cloth. First editions, three volumes. The first volume, Titus Groan is signed by the Peake on the front free end paper. The three published books of the "Gormenghast" sequence...

[London]: Severn House, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. A land speculator plans a lunar eutopia with tract houses populated by simulacra to entice people to emigrate to the Moon. However, the main theme of...

New York: Penzler Books, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Over fifty previously uncollected essays, several revised for this book, one published here for the first time.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Lew Archer novel. "...exposes the heartbreak of those who come to California expecting the answers to their dreams..." - Pronzini and Muller...

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Review copy.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by McBain. An 87th Precinct novel.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. Wrappers. First U.S. edition. Advance readers copy with review material laid in. Author's first book.

New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Triumph of Captain Future" by Edmond Hamilton. The only hero pulp magazine solely within the science fiction...

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Post nuclear holocaust novel. A group of survivors in Florida cope with the aftermath, and day to day survival. A well received novel...

New York: Arno Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Text offset from that of the 1965 Science-Fiction & Fantasy Publications edition. "Day intended this book as a companion volume to his Supplemental Checklist of...

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1954]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Rebellious miners on Saturn's moon Titan, whose ancestors were exiled there centuries before and forced to mine the...

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 996 copies printed. Collects three Solar Pons adventures.

Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1987]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The first Elvis Cole mystery.

New York: Tor, [2010]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Scholes on the title page. Fantasy novel. The third book in the Psalms of Isaak series.

London: Dennis Dobson, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Fix up novel from two stories first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories; "Abercrombie Station" and "Cholwell's Chickens." Hewett and Mallett, The Work of...

Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Winner of the 1991 Hugo award for best nonfiction book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 13-19.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-327 [328: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First edition. Collects twenty-four stories. "A very fine collection." - Bleiler, The Guide...