• A PLOT FOR MURDER.

    A PLOT FOR MURDER.

    New York: Bantam Books, [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam #735. Published in hardcover as Murder Can Be Fun. Hardboiled mystery novel.

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  • PEBBLE IN THE SKY.

    PEBBLE IN THE SKY.

    Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1950. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF novel (and first book). In the far future "Earth is largely a radioactive wasteland, populated...

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  • VAMPIRE DETECTIVES.

    VAMPIRE DETECTIVES.

    New York: DAW Books, Inc. [1995]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW No. 983. Original anthology.

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  • THE LAST CASTLE bound with WORLD OF THE SLEEPER by Tony Russell Wayman.

    THE LAST CASTLE bound with WORLD...

    New York: Ace Books, Inc. [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Double H-21. Signed by Vance on the title page. Winner of the 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novella and also the 1966...

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  • THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON.

    THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON.

    New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition of this text. First of three volumes comprising "The Authorized Edition" of Conan edited and foreword by Karl Edward Wagner. Follows the text...

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  • DEAD YESTERDAY: AND OTHER STORIES. Edited by Rick Cypert and Kirby McCauley.

    DEAD YESTERDAY: AND OTHER STORIES. Edited...

    Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2007. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Part of the publishers "Lost Classics" series. Collects fourteen stories and one novella split between four of her characters, Nurse Sarah Keate, Susan Dare...

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  • WORLD OF CHANCE.

    WORLD OF CHANCE.

    [London]: The Science Fiction Book Club by arrangement with Rich and Cowan Limited, [1957]. Later edition. The author's first book. Published in the U.S. as a paperback original by Ace Books in 1955 as SOLAR...

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  • DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

    DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

    Chicago: Popular Publications, 1944. 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. It is greatly underrated...

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  • THE MAN WHO DIDN'T EXIST.

    THE MAN WHO DIDN'T EXIST.

    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...

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  • STRANGERS.

    STRANGERS.

    New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1978]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel. 1978 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-356.

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  • THE CLASSIC LIBRARY OF HORROR OMNIBUS: THE MUMMY, THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON.

    THE CLASSIC LIBRARY OF HORROR OMNIBUS...

    London: Allan Wingate, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First combined (and first hardcover) edition. Collects the Dreadstone novelizations of THE MUMMY and THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON. Both are introduced by Ramsey Campbell. Campbell who did pen several...

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  • SOUL OF THE FIRE.

    SOUL OF THE FIRE.

    New York: TOR: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The Sword of Truth. This is book five in The Sword of Truth series.

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  • ZARLAH THE MARTIAN.

    ZARLAH THE MARTIAN.

    New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, [1909]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-194 [note: title leaf is a cancel tipped in on a stub], inserted frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, original red cloth...

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  • WEIRD TALES.

    WEIRD TALES.

    Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Margaret Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A posthumous H. P. Lovecraft contribution, "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"

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  • THE FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE.

    THE FIVE BELLS AND BLADEBONE.

    Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Mystery novel. Inspector Jury. "Her plots are exceedingly convoluted and clever, with adroitly placed red herrings, delicate problems of time and place...

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  • STRANGE GATEWAYS.

    STRANGE GATEWAYS.

    Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. The author's first collection of short fiction, twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES and other pulps between 1925 and...

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  • THE VISIONARY.

    THE VISIONARY.

    [New York]: Warner Books, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Signed by the author on the title page. Psychological thriller involving a serial killer and a young woman who has psychic visions.

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  • THE BROKEN BUBBLE.

    THE BROKEN BUBBLE.

    New York: Arbor House, [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Posthumously published mainstream novel set in California in the 1950s.

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  • THE MULTIPLE MAN.

    THE MULTIPLE MAN.

    Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bova on the title page. Review slip and promotional flyer laid in. Suspense novel.

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  • THE VOICELESS ONES.

    THE VOICELESS ONES.

    New York: Walker and Company, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Dr. Palfrey adventure. The Dr. Palfrey stories are "...enjoyable if a little sensational. The later development of the Palfrey series into the science...

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  • ARK OF VENUS.

    ARK OF VENUS.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Octavo, jacket by Clifford Geary, cloth backed boards. First edition. Juvenile SF adventure novel.

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  • THE BLACKBIRDER.

    THE BLACKBIRDER.

    New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1943]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 20th century slave traffic in the Southwest.

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  • ENGINE SUMMER.

    ENGINE SUMMER.

    Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Review slip laid in. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-122.

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  • THE GODS THEMSELVES.

    THE GODS THEMSELVES.

    Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Asimov on a tipped in leaf inserted after the front free endpaper. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe...

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  • NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS.

    NIGHT'S BLACK AGENTS.

    Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. "Leiber was the most stylish of the Weird Tales writers." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-126...

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  • AURELIUS SMITH-DETECTIVE.

    AURELIUS SMITH-DETECTIVE.

    New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1927]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of mystery stories by the author who penned the first two Spider pulp novels.

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  • BODY OF EVIDENCE.

    BODY OF EVIDENCE.

    New York: Scribner's, 1990. Wrappers. First edition. Signed. Advance uncorrected reading copy (proof).

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  • NIGHT LADY.

    NIGHT LADY.

    Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. 1958. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Crest Books 260. Hard boiled novel with P.I. Joe Puma.

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  • ADAM AND THE SERPENT.

    ADAM AND THE SERPENT.

    New York: The Vanguard Press, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fourth volume of the author's Testament of Man series, this title deals with the fight between man and woman for the control of society.

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