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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Adventure and suspense novel set in the American west of the silver boom.

[London]: Wandering Star, [1999]. Octavo, profusely illustrated by Frank Frazetta, cloth. First edition. One of 1500 numbered copies with four inserted color plates not in the trade edition. Collects seven stories illustrated by Frazetta, five...

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. Octavo, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition, later issue. A Robinsonade set on Mars where Earth's stranded first mission to the seemingly lifeless Red Planet is menaced by...

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of stories from the fact based Official Detective Stories magazine.

New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Cornell Woolrich, "After Dinner Story," Dwight Babcock, Steve Fisher and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp...

New York: Love Romances, 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Death-by-Rain" by Ray Bradbury. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the...

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-175 [176: blank], cloth. First edition. The second Gervase Fen novel. Murder in a small English town, perhaps involving a coven of witches or German spies. "...if...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Joseph Eberle, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories byClark Ashton Smith, Leah Bodine Drake, August Derleth, Donald Wandrei, and others. [Reference: Tymm and...

Garden City: Hanover House, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seventeen stories by Poe, Wells, Doyle, Verne, Stapledon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sydney Fowler Wright, Capek, E. M. Forster, Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie, H. P....

West Kingston, Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1988]. Octavo, leather. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by editor Douglas E. Winter, artist and designer Thomas Canty, and the thirteen contributors. Original...

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second book of "The Song of Earth" cycle.

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1927. Octavo, single issue, cover art by C. Barker Petrie, Jr., pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Edmond Hamilton, Seabury Quinn, August Derleth, and others. [Reference: Tymm and...

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-307 [308-312: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First...

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...

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2608. Paperback original. A Joe Gall spy thriller. Joe Gall is a ruthless free-lancer called "The Nullifer."

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-267 [268: colophon] [269-272: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], title page printed in blue-gray and black, decorated light gray cloth...

New York: TOR, [1990]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. Dark fantasy set in present day Castleview, IL, involving a ghostly castle, which once belonged to Morgan le...

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-280 [281-282: publisher's adverts], four inserted plates with stills from the motion picture, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained...

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., [1982]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Study that covers Chandler's work in Hollywood and the films that were made from his work.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated by King on the front free end paper to a well known early fan. Signed on 10/12/79, likely at...

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The authors own selection of stories from the period 1947-1957. Included are "The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Star". The...

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover art by C. C. Senf, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert E. Howard ("The Thing on the Roof"), Frank Belknap Long, Donald...

New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Earthlight" by Arthur C. Clarke. Also fiction by Raymond F. Jones, Fredric Brown, William Tenn and others...

Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Professor Jameson story by Neil R. Jones. This is the final issue. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science...

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1959]. Octavo, illustration by James Heugh, cloth. First edition. Aliens on Pluto have imprisoned space explorers from other planets and star systems and are stealing our solar system's...

[London]; [London]; New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland; [London]: Voyager HarperCollinsPublishers; Voyager HarperCollinsPublishers; Bantam Books; Voyager HarperCollinsPublishers, [1996; 1998; 200; 2005]. Octavo, four volumes, boards. First U.K. editions of first, second and fourth book; first...

New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1950]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fifteenth Henry Gamadge novel. "This is a well organized and appropriately atmospheric novel about a woman kept under drugs and restraint in...

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In an alternate history novel in which Jews persecuted by the Nazis have a refugee settlement in Alaska. Detective Meyer Landsman investigates murder in the Federal District...

New York: Marvel Comics Group, 1976-1977. Octavo, twelve issues, illustrated by Jack Kirby, pictorial wrappers. All issues written, drawn and edited by Jack Kirby. This is the first Marvel series with Black Panther in his...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-280 [281-284], printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first U. S. edition. Signed inscription by Ambler on the half title page to Otto...

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, [1899]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-260, decorated boards. First edition. Sensational crime novel set in New York City where a criminal mastermind "disposes of human bodies in a....

Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2008. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies signed by Fred Pohl, James Gunn (introductions), Alfred D. Stewart, Alan C. Elms, Vincent DiFate, and Stephen Haffner. Included in...

New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In an alternate history novel in which Jews persecuted by the Nazis have a refugee settlement in Alaska. Detective Meyer Landsman investigates murder in the Federal District...

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1895. Small octavo, inserted frontispiece (with tissue guard) with illustration by W. B. Russell, original decorated tan buckram, front and spine panels stamped in purple, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed...

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, illustrated cloth. First hardcover edition. One of two hundred copies signed by Vance. First publication of the complete text, the Ace paperback publication...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Printed for Arkham House: Publishers... by Villiers Publications, Ltd... 1963. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. 500 copies printed. This autobiographical sketch was collected earlier in BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP (1943)...