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Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, July 1974. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Well-regarded amateur journal devoted to the study of weird fiction, especially the work of H. P. Lovecraft and members of the Lovecraft...

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1] [i-iv] v-xviii [ix-xx] 1-276 [277-280], THE DR. THORNDYKE OMNIBUS. original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. This volume collects THE SINGING...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953]. Octavo, Illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. "Striking are the detailed, convincing picture of spaceship operational procedures and the suspense whenever the ship must...

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Edgar award for best first novel, 1982.

[West Warwick, RI: Necronomican Press, 1978, 1980, 1982]. Octavo, 3 volumes, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First editions. Includes poetry, non-fiction and short fiction.

New York: The Viking Press, [1960]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Beagle on the front free end paper. The author's first novel. "...the novel stands out for Beagle's use of character and...

Arlington Hgts. Dark Harvest, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 signed by author and the artist Bob Eggleton.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 2 of "Final Blackout" by L. Ron Hubbard. Includes the last novel by Phil[ip]...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "House of Death" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-276 [277-78: blank], cloth. First edition. The second mystery novel featuring the sleuth Francis Galt, "the Goldfish," set in New York.

Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This issue has a David Goodis story, "Lug That Leather."

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-308, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold and blue, top edge stained dark blue, First edition. A novel in the author's "Sac...

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Novel set on another planet in which the feminist colonists establish a matriarchal society. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-159...

Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1955. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 108-111.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 2 of "Second Stage Lensman" by E.E. Smith. Includes a story by Eric...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lenosci, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Happy Killers" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39.

Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the July 1945 U. S. publication, though drops one story. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and...

West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, 1978. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 750 numbered copies signed by Reed. Coll (1881-1921) was a master of pen and ink illustration in the early 20th Century. His drawings...

New York: Atheneum, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Two humorous stories of two divisions of the Patrol, a protective organization for Earth colonies. The involve the Porcine Interstellar Guard and the Robot Obstrusion...

New York & London: The Century Co., [1924]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries.

New York: Avalon Books, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Hugo award nominee, 1959. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-157.

New York: Mason/Charter, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Cain on the half title page: "To-- / with love, / & the hope (?) / enjoy it / Jim / Hyattsville, Md /...

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-276 [277-280: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in red, top edge stained red, fore-edge rough cut. First edition. The author's third...

New York: MacMillan, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-68.

Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1932. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Gil[bert T.] Brewer (father of later hard boiled writer Gilbert J. Brewer), Arthur J. Burks, Robert Sidney Bowen and others...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Murray Leinster serial. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp...

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1979. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 300 copies printed. Signed by Vance on the half title page. Separate illustrated edition of this story published for V-Con VII at which...

[London]: Macmillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.

New York: Dutton, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. "Autobiography" of Dr. Watson.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The second volume in the Flashman series. Flashman's encounter with Otto von Bismarck.

London: Hutchinson & Co., Patternoster Row, n.d., [1923]. Octavo, red cloth, stamped in blind and black to front cover, stamped in black to spine. First British edition. Short story collection. Listed in Hubin.

New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Emery Clarke, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Freckled Shark" by Kenneth Robeson. Includes "The Skipper" short feature. "Doc Savage was intended...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Lew Archer novel. Signed presentation copy to noted Canadian author and educator Marshall McCluhan and his wife Corinne. "For Marshall and Corinne...

London: Michael Joseph, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Edgar award winner for Best novel, 1980. A Sid Haley novel.

Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1973. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. First published in 1896.

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Straub, this is copy number 1. A short work involving two young brothers, one who torments the...