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Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Derleth on the half title page. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.

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New York: Richard Marek Publishers, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback issue (first published simultaneous in hardcover and softcover). Signed by Wilson on the title page. Collection of cartoon strips which feature "The Kid,"...

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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Story collection. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #588. See Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 3-124.

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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4288 copies printed. Although it bears the same title, this book is not a reprint of the 1880 British three-decker. This collection was compiled by...

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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1933. Octavo, cloth. First edition.

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New York: New American Library, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novelization of the film screenplay by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick which was based in part on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel." Anatomy of Wonder (2004)...

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New York: The McBride Company, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twelve stories by Arthur C. Clarke, August Derleth, Charles Beaumont, C. M. Kornbluth, Leigh Brackett, Eric Frank Russell, Walter M. Miller, Jr. and others...

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[New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., 1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Handi-Book #30. This is the author's first mystery novel.

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Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Joel Townsley Rogers and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine...

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San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Vance. The second volume in the Lyonesse series. The author's preferred text. Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature 4A-257.

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London: Dennis Dobson, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The fourth volume in the "Demon Princes" series. Kirth Gersen's revenge continues. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1160. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A61d.

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New York: A. L. Burt, 1915. Octavo, Hardcover. Early Reprint. First of the series. Heins TA-5.

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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 553 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-17.

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Chicago: Best Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolf Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains fiction by Max Murray, Joel Townsley Rogers and others. This magazine published new fiction, no reprints. "The stories...

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New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Young adult novel concerning a 18 year old boy who awakens in a dystopian future. Reginald 15262. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. "A novel based on Welles' screenplay "Mr. Arkadin" (a.k.a. "Confidential Report"). "'Mr. Arkadin" (first released Spain, 1955) was written and directed by Orson...

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1963]. Octavo, jacket art by Irv Doktor, cloth. First edition. The author's last juvenile novel.

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[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. Collects fifteen stories by August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Carl Jacobi, H. Russell Wakefield, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft...

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Inscribed on the title page. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-306.

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New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Air stories.

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New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First trade edition. Trade paperback edition, first published in hardcover by Garland publishers.

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New York, London, Toronto.. Poseidon Press, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A prequel to FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC.

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Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fedogan & Bremer, 1999. Octavo, cover and illustrations by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven short stories and novellas, eight original to this collection.

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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1965. Octavo, jacket illustration by Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1519.

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[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance review copy of the first edition. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker...

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Cambridge: The NESFA Press, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. One of 800 signed and numbered copies. Volume issued for the annual Boskone SF convention. Collections of editorials from Analog.

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New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. Includes Jerome Bixby's "It's...

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London, Melbourne, Syndey, Auckland, Johannesburg: Hutchinson, [1983]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Richard Bolitho sea adventure set in 1802.

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[Heathfield, Fareham, Hants.]: Spectre Press, 1982. Octavo, stiff wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. The author's first book of poetry.

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Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Sequel of a sort to Burn, Witch, Burn! A good mystery thriller, with even some moments...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Scarce early hard boiled novel. Intelligent guy stumbles into the underworld and becomes the leader of a mob.

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New York: Perma Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3097. Paperback original. Hardboiled mystery novel.

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Louisville, KY: Nightshade Press, 1976. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Amateur magazine of Fantasy. Includes a biographical sketch and a bibliography of Manly Wade Wellman by Karl Edward Wagner. Signed by Wagner at the head of...

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New York: The Heritage Press, 1950 (volume 1), 1952 (volumes 2 & 3). Octavo, illustrated throughout by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others, cloth backed boards. Later editions. In three volumes the entire Sherlock...

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New York, Toronto, London... Bantam Books, [1994]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Novel of the future with the weather out of control in a world of ecological disaster.

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New York: Random House, [1941]. Octavo, [1-6] [1-2] 3-271 [272-274]. cloth. First edition. A werewolf novel. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-75.

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