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New York: Walker, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Albert. The second P.I. Dave Garrett novel.

[London]: A Rapp and Whiting Book / Andre Deutsch, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "Ornate sf/fantasy novel adventure novel involving a super-rich, near-immortal 'worldscaper' who is threatened by various aliens and...

New York: Trojan Magazines, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by George Rozen, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes a W.T. Ballard story.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover by Toney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Issued to capitalize on the success of Doc Savage and the Shadow, a somewhat more adult character...

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.

New York: Dutton, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

[New York]: Carroll & Graf, [1986]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition, trade paperback format. Critical essays on 100 SF novels from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) to Gibson's Neuromancer (1984). Anatomy of Wonder (1995)...

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-180.

Springfield, Illinois: H. W. Rokker, Printer and Binder, 1883. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-3] 4-336 [337-338: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear...

West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1977. Octavo, iIllustrations by Tim Kirk, cloth. Later edition. Re-issue of the second volume of the Breckinridge Elkins stories with illustrations by Tim Kirk.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1962]. Octavo, boards. First edition.

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover art by John Giunta, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Anthony Boucher, Greye La Spina, John D. MacDonald, August Derleth, and others.  Tymm...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1945. Octavo, single issue, cover art by A. R. Tilburne, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Ray Bradbury ("The Tombstone"), August Derleth writing as "Stephen Gredon,"...

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Theodore Roscoe, H. Bedford Jones (a John Solomon mystery), Fred MacIsaac and others.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #939. Paperback original.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Definitive bibliography of the works of Chandler.

New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Third Devon MacDonald mystery.

London: Robert Hale Limited, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. A Travis McGee novel. Hubin, p. 526.

[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1993. Oblong octavo, cloth. First edition. A novella. Introduction by Frank Miller. Rudy, who is black, has telpathic abilities and is asked by a friend to look into the...

North Hollywood, Calif. An Essex House Original, [1969]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Essex House 0121. Paperback original. Signed by Farmer. A Tarzan pastiche with adult content. Postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-389. Barron...

Novato, California, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Trade edition. Collects twelve stories originally published 1951-1962, most first appearing in magazines, some stories have been re-titled. "Dazzling inventiveness, barbed wit, the renowned prose...

London: Jonathan Cape, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Author's fourth novel. Nebula award nominee, 1966. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-26.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The importance of this book cannot be overstated, as it is the first published novel (in book form), by one of the major, if not...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2405 copies printed. Collects seventeen stories first published in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, and Strange Stories between 1930 and 1947, mostly during the period...

New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fix-up novel from a series of stories from Astounding Science Fiction.

Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Small octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-3] 4-150 [151] [152: blank] [153: colophon] [154: blank] [155-170: ads] [171-172: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Suspense noirish novel. Night club singer marries man with a past and secrets. Hubin, pp. 119-120.

Chicago: Black Horse Press, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, printed wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of two published. Features stories by Frank Kane (Johnny Liddell), Paul Marcus and Edward Ronns (pseudonym for Edward Aarons). Another...

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Toby Peters mystery, set in Chicago, a case which involves the Marx brothers.

[London]: Wandering Star, [1999]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Trade issue. Collects seven stories illustrated by Frazetta, five poems, and other material. The second volume of Wandering Star's "Robert E. Howard Library of Classics."

Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1957. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Formerly SMASHING DETECTIVE STORIES which changed it's name in 1957, this is the final of the pulp sized issues, moving to a....

New York: Morrow, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book.

[London]: Macmillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.

London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of vintage crime fiction, John Collier, Dennis Wheatley, Dorothy Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Book F-301. The USEA (the United States and Europe combined) is a repressive police state run by a....

New York: Tor, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition. Part of the "Gaean Reach" series, set in the same universe as THE NIGHT LAMP. Not in Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance...