• SHOWBOAT WORLD.

    SHOWBOAT WORLD.

    New York: Pyramid, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid V3698. Paperback original. Signed by Vance on the title page. Hewett and Mallett, The Works of Jack Vance, A47.

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  • THE CON MAN.

    THE CON MAN.

    New York: Perma Books, 1957. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3037. Paperback original. The fourth 87th Precinct novel.

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  • BRIGANDS OF THE MOON.

    BRIGANDS OF THE MOON.

    Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., Publishers, 1931. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-386 [388-392: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], illustration by J. Allen St. John, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in...

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  • DAGON.

    DAGON.

    New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "A Southern Gothic with cosmic overtones that shows equal influence of Faulkner and Lovecraft." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-86.

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  • THE SNOW QUEEN.

    THE SNOW QUEEN.

    New York: The Dial Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. 1981 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1189.

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  • ONE TO COUNT CADENCE.

    ONE TO COUNT CADENCE.

    [New York]: Random House, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. A novel of the Viet-Nam war ... more.

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  • GOLDEN FLEECE.

    GOLDEN FLEECE.

    Chicago: Sun Publications, February, 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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  • THE SCARF OF PASSION.

    THE SCARF OF PASSION.

    New York: Avon Novels Inc. [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Avon Monthly Novel #9. Digest size format. Signed by Bloch on the title page.

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  • KEPT.

    KEPT.

    [New York]: A Midwood (Tower) Publication, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood #35. Paperback original.

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  • CARNY KILL.

    CARNY KILL.

    Greenwich, CT: [Fawcett Publications, Inc. 1966]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #d1611. Paperback original. Harboiled mystery novel.

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  • DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

    DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

    New York: The Red Star News, Co. 1930. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a crowded field, through a rigid weekly publication schedule, for two decades...

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  • GHOST STORIES.

    GHOST STORIES.

    London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1916. Small octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-117 [118, publishers imprint] [119-120, ads], original gray-green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later (first abridged) edition. An abridged reissue of...

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  • THE FOURTH KING.

    THE FOURTH KING.

    New York: A. L. Burt, n.d. [1930s]. Octavo, Hardcover. Reprint. Mystery set in Chicago.

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  • THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE.

    THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE.

    New York: Standard Magazines, Inc. 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Billion Dollar Blitz" by Robert Wallace. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 408-414.

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  • SOLAR LOTTERY.

    SOLAR LOTTERY.

    New York: Ace Books, Inc. [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second edition. Ace D-340. First separate paperback edition. The author's first book. Issued later in Britain with textual changes made by Dick at the request...

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  • THE DARKLING.

    THE DARKLING.

    [Sauk City]: Arkham House, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Science fantasy novel of the far future.

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  • THE BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE.

    THE BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE.

    Chicago: The Consolidated Magazines Corporation, 1927. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Unexpected Guest" by Agatha Christie, a Hercule Poirot story. Text taken with some abridgment from the book publication, THE BIG FOUR.

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  • H. P. LOVECRAFT: A PORTRAIT.

    H. P. LOVECRAFT: A PORTRAIT.

    Baltimore, Maryland: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second edition. 500 copies printed. New edition of IN MEMORIAM HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT ..., first published privately in 1941 in an edition of 94 copies and subsequently collected...

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  • A MILE BEYOND THE MOON.

    A MILE BEYOND THE MOON.

    Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories including "The Little Black Bag," "Shark Ship," and "Two Dooms." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-349. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 969.

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  • WINTER KILL.

    WINTER KILL.

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

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  • THRILLING WONDER STORIES.

    THRILLING WONDER STORIES.

    New York: Standard Magazines, Inc. 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Cholwell's Chickens" a sequel to "Abercrombie Station" by Jack Vance. Also fiction by Edmond Hamilton, Alan E....

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  • THE JENNIFER MORGUE.

    THE JENNIFER MORGUE.

    [Urbana, IL]: Golden Gryphon Press, 2006. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Second book in the Laundry series, featuring Bob Howard, who works for the British government to fend off eldritch horrors; from the jacket copy: "...takes...

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  • BEHIND THE CRIMSON BLIND.

    BEHIND THE CRIMSON BLIND.

    New York: William Morrow & Company, 1952. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel featuring Sir Henry Merrivale, an investigator of "impossible" crimes. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 601.

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  • SPACE OPERA.

    SPACE OPERA.

    San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 380 copies of the trade edition.

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  • THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTELANDS.

    THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTELANDS.

    Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc. [1991]. Octavo, illustration by Ned Dameron, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by King on the front free end paper: "For--/Be well/Stephen King." The third volume in the...

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  • THE INHUMAN CONDITION.

    THE INHUMAN CONDITION.

    New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.

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  • EARTH.

    EARTH.

    New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1990]. Octavo, full black leather, spine panel stamped in gold, a.e.g. First edition. Limited to 342 (unnumbered) copies signed by Brin. "...it's fifty years from tomorrow. A....

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  • THE FOLK OF THE FRINGE.

    THE FOLK OF THE FRINGE.

    West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 475 signed copies. Related story collection of the future after a world wide war.

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  • CITIES IN FLIGHT.

    CITIES IN FLIGHT.

    [New York]: Avon, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First combined edition. Avon Books W187. Collects four connected novels; THEY SHALL HAVE STARS (1956), A LIFE FOR THE STARS (1962), EARTHMAN, COME HOME (1955), and THE...

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  • ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.

    ROCKET SHIP GALILEO.

    New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This is the author's first book, preceded by a pamphlet printing a convention speech. "A pioneering novel that began American mainstream science fiction for children...

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  • DIME DETECTIVE.

    DIME DETECTIVE.

    Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a John D. MacDonald short story.

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  • THE CITY AND THE STARS.

    THE CITY AND THE STARS.

    New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Clarke on the front free end paper. Based on the author's first published novel, Against the Fall of Night (1948; 1953). This...

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  • NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR.

    NOW WAIT FOR LAST YEAR.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1966. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel of the future involving drug addiction and time travel.

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  • A LIFE FOR THE STARS.

    A LIFE FOR THE STARS.

    London: Faber and Faber, [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. Chronologically, the second book of the "Cities in Flight" tetralogy. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-22. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 358-62.

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