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Philadelphia: The Prime Press, [1947]. Small octavo, Later edition. Reprint of an early American utopian novel, first printed as a serial in the Deist weekly newspaper, THE TEMPLE OF REASON, May through July 1802. First...

New York: Belmont Books, [1966]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-680 "Prophet, preaching perfect society, disrupts the current one." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 301.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's second of three horror novels. In a remote village in England an archeologist discovers preserved Bronze Age bodies in...

Atlanta: The Atlanta Science Fiction Organization Press, 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Moskowitz on the front free end paper. Preceded by a 1951 paperbound mimeographed edition limited to 150 copies. A very...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Ray Bradbury's "The Poems." Also fiction by August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman, Edmond Hamilton and others.

London: Century, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second state of the first edition with pages 240-241 printed in the correct sequence (the first issue has these pages transposed). Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-62.

New York: Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons ... Distributed by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects ten stories.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first mystery. Reynold Frame, freelance journalist investigates the disappearance of a young woman. "There is plenty of eerie mystery here, a fine...

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1993]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. First U. S. hardcover edition. One of an unknown number of copies signed by Womack on a special limitation page. Introduction by James Gunn. Time...

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.

New York: Walker and Company, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Woolrich on the front end paper: "To Ethel & Karl Paley / Sincerely, / Cornell Woolrich." As with all Woolrich books, scarce...

The Hague and Bandung: W. Van Hoeve Ltd, 1956. Octavo, nineteen illustrations by the author, cloth. First edition. A series of interconnected Judge Dee novellas. "The Judge Dee stories are certainly the finest ethnographic detective...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eleventh volume in the Flashman series. Collects three tales, the last "Flashman and the Tiger," features...

Brownwood, Texas: Published by Tevis Clyde Smith, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Signed inscription by Smith to Robert Briney. One of the poems in this collection memorializes Robert E. Howard, another...

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. The author's third spy novel with his nameless hero. Produced as a 1966 film with Michael Caine in the lead role. Jay Pederson: St...

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Mongo novel.

New York: Walker and Company, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Signed by Barnard on the title page. Mystery novel set in Yorkshire. Uncommon signed.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Masao Masuto novel.

New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, and others.

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Ed Noon.

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...

Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed.

New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Signed inscription by Francis.

West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin. This edition includes textual revisions by the author. "Superior space opera of a very high order"...

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-248, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Collects ten stories. Published the same year in the...

New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels #11. Signed inscription by Wellman on the title page: "Good luck / John! / Manly Wade Wellman / Jan...

Chicago: Privately Printed, 1895. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-264 [265: printer's imprint] [266-268: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], title page printed in orange and black, original green cloth, front, spine and rear...

Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Attanasio and artists Rick DeMarco and Rich Schindler. Collects seven short stories, including a Sherlock Holmes story...

London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller with some macabre elements, involving underground rituals and the revival of an unholy religion. See the St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp...

New York: The Viking Press, [1969]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Norton to Jerry Weist on the title page. Publisher's library binding. Sequel to THE ZERO STONE.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Hard boiled story by the author of I Wake Up Screaming.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-300 [301-312: blank] [note: last six leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light blue. First edition...

New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Avon 169. From the front cover: "This book specially revised and edited for Avon Books." First trade paperback, not the film...

[New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell A184. Paperback original. Signed by Leonard on the half title page. Filmed as a made for television movie.

Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer Robert Anton Wilson, this being copy number 1. Chronologically Volume 5 in the series of six books...

Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-355 [356: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, original olive green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in...