THE RIVER PIRATE.
Coe, Charles Francis.
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, light rubbing to edges and front panel.
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, light rubbing to edges and front panel.
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1912. Octavo, p. [1-4: blank] [i-ix] x-xii [1-3] 4-298 [299-304: blank], original brownish-green cloth, stamped in dark brown and silver to front cover, stamped in dark brown to spine...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's first novel. Basis for the hard boiled film, directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Sidney Boehm starring Victor Mature, Richard...
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. Octavo, original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1973. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Philip St. Ives novel. "[The Bleeck titles]...are distinguished for their crisp dialogue, unusual backgrounds, and understated sense of irony." Pronzini...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1939. Large octavo, single issue, front cover by Leo Morey, rear cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, "bedsheet format." Includes Edgar Rice Burroughs, "The Scientists Revolt," originally written...
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. "The ad-men run this overpopulated America of the future, a crassly materialist society which is challenged only by a weak underground...
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A contemporary fantasy novel which involves a magic book.
New York, Toronto, London... Bantam Books, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "...a woman possesses a mental connection with the Civil War, in particular through the spirit of Robert E. Lee, and through her...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects four stories, first published in the U.S. as a paperback. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-176.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazines. Collects twelve stories with Evan Hunter, Ellery Queen, Ray Bradbury, John D. MacDonald, Richard Marsten...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Review materials laid in. The second Kimmey Kruse mystery.
Chicago, IL: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features the classic "Marionettes, Inc." by Ray Bradbury. Also a Magnus Ridolph story by Jack Vance. Other fiction by Murray Leinster, Clifford...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Gallun. Author's first hardcover novel, he is remembered largely for his contributions to the pulp magazines of the '30s.
Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1971. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. A Travis McGee mystery. One of the more difficult of the Lippincott's.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Nick Stefanos mystery.
London: Herbert Jenkins, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumously published collection of fourteen stories with preface by Anthony Skene. "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies."...
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to THE SHROUDED PLANET.
New York: Putnam's, 1997. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's second mystery.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1946]. Octavo, illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., boards. First edition. The authors first book and first mystery novel. Hard boiled.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover by Malvin Singer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis, Norbert Davis and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.
Boston: Mayhew Publishing Company, 1906. Octavo, [1-10] [1] 2-215 [216-18: blank], original gray cloth, front stamped in gold and red, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Novel featuring a detective who is looking for a....
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. A definitive edition of the supernatural fiction of James, including stories and fragments left out of the collected edition of 1931...
New York [and] London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] xi-xii [1-2] 3-323 [324: blank], twelve inserted plates by Miguel Covarrubias, original yellow boards, front and spine stamped in black, top edge...
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover novel "The Sword Staffel" by Robert J. Hogan. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255.
San Francisco, California/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 450 copies. Mystery set in Oakland in the 1960s. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A55.
New York: Delacorte Press, [1976]. Octavo, quarter board and cloth. First edition. A "Stick" novel. "The Leonard touch is here: fast pace, tight plot, dialogue that sings and sizzles, gritty realism, and a feel for...
[New York]: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. The tenth and final Amber novel.
New York: The Macaulay Company, [1934]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Translation from the French of "La Rue des Bouches-Peintes" (Paris, 1925).
North Hollywood: Leisure Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. LB 29S. Paperback original. The second collection featuring Simon Ark. Occult detective stories investigated by a 2000 year old Coptic heretic. See Barron (ed)...
Hicksville: Gnome Press, [1958]. Octavo, original black boards, spine printed in red. First edition. Part of the "future history" series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-204.
Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1958.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Expanded and rewritten from the novelette "Kingdom of the Blind" which first appeared in Startling Stories, July, 1947.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1983]. Octavo, First edition. Collects twenty-one stories and an essay. Includes the Hugo Award winning stories "Unicorn Variation" and "Home is the Hangman."
New York: The Vanguard Press, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The third volume of the author's Testament of Man series, this title deals with the continued growth of early man; superstition and magic.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 2 of "One Against the Legion" by Jack Williamson. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction...
London: Faber and Faber, [1950]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second collection of stories about Scotland Yard's Department of Dead Ends, an imaginary department where the evidence from unsolved crimes is stored.
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