THE GIRL IN BLUE.
Wodehouse, P[elham] G[renville].
London: Barrie & Jenkins, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
London: Barrie & Jenkins, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Crime at Seven Oaks" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Stephen Gould...
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. Octavo, title page printed in red and black, original terra cotta cloth with beige buckram shelf back, spine and rear panels stamped in terra cotta, top edge stained terra...
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1991]. Octavo, illustrations by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Elizabeth Anne Hull. Part of this novel first appeared as a novella in ANALOG and won...
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. With "Noise" by Jack Vance and "The Lovers" by Philip Jose Farmer. This is Farmer's first published science...
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo, single issue, cover art by C. C. Senf, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn, Ray Cummings, Eli Colter, Robert E. Howard (verse), and others...
[New York]: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eight stories. [Reference: Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A37].
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-240 [241-242: blank], original green cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green, fore-edge uncut. First U. S. edition. WW II espionage book. The first...
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Walter M. Miller, Jr., Anthony Boucher, E. Hoffman Price and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird...
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1927. Octavo, single issue, cover art by C. C. Senf, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Arthur J. Burks, Clare Winger Harris, G. G. Pendarves, Manly Wade Wellman...
New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels 10. Paperback original, digest size format. "After a nuclear holocaust begun by an unknown power, the battle continues with...
New York: Pocket Books, [1982]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The third Leigh Nichols book.
New York: Tor, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel. "... is set in a Near Future Hawaii haunted by illegal Clones of earlier rules of the Island state, and riven by the...
Pasadena, TX: Glenn Lord, 1961-1973. Small octavo, printed wrappers. All published. A major source for material by and about Robert E. Howard. Many Howard poems, letters and fragments of fiction are printed here for the...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects six stories by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Samuel R. Delany and Theodore Sturgeon, and two articles by...
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-344, original red cloth, front panel stamped in light blue and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in light blue, fore and bottom edges...
New York: Viking, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
New York: The Viking Press, 1960. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three Nero Wolfe mystery stories. "Poison à la Carte," "Method Three for Murder," and "The Rodeo Murder." All three first published in magazines; The...
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Psychological suspense novel. The protagonist commits a horrifying act and enters into psychiatric therapy. Under hypnosis past lives are revealed. But are they...
[Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2014]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 500 copies printed. Collects HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE GHOST PIRATES and twenty-one stories. Includes a bibliography.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Black Mask author's second hard boiled mystery novel, set in New York. Source for the film noir "Pushover" (along with the novel RAFFERTY by Bill...
New York: Delacorte Press, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Psychological suspense novel.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. A novella set in the same universe as QUEEN OF ANGELS.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo awards for best novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-250].
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., [1961]. Octavo, cloth. Second printing. Collects nine stories. "Nine sprightly tales, mainly from the 50s" - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 373. Ink...
New York: Tor, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
San Francisco, California, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Signed by Vance on the title page. Mystery novel set in San Francisco. [Reference: Hewett and...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Hate Master" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The discovery of faster than light travel defuses a mutiny on the long interstellar voyage of a generation starship traveling from a ruined Earth...
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Six detective tales selected from PRINCE ZALESKI (1895) and THE PALE APE (1911).
London: New English Library, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, [1952]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second SF novel. Political intrigue on post-World War III Earth where the United States is a second rate power and fascist states are ascendant...
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book, preceded by an edited anthology. Collects seven stories with introduction "On the Fiction in Science-Fiction," an important statement on the genre...
New York: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories with conquest of space themes by Isaac Asimov, Manly Wade Wellman, Lewis Padgett, A. E. van Vogt, Hal Clement, L....
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, [1997]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects eight supernatural tales including Hawthorne's early vampire classic, "Ken's Mystery."
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. An important issue. Notable for "The Alien Machine" by Raymond F. Jones, basis for the novel and later film "THIS ISLAND EARTH."...
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