MURDER.
Hall, Parnell.
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Second Stanley Hastings novel.
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Second Stanley Hastings novel.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Malafrena asks something that cannot have occurred to very many of us: what it might have been like to live in a small...
New York: Belmont Books, [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont 91-254. Paperback original. Television tie-in novel to the show M Squad starring Lee Marvin. [Reference: Hubin, p. 719].
New York: Tor, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology. Collects seventeen stories by David Morrell, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, William F. Nolan, Brad Lineweaver, Edward D. Hoch, Dennis Etchison, Charles L. Grant and others...
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, distributed by G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Science fiction novel.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Anthony Boucher, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon and others. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and...
New York: Beech Tree Books, William Morrow, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Second horror novel by this writing team, preceded by HEADHUNTER (1984). Review slip and promotional flyer laid in...
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...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2020. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Of 526 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Baoshu. This is copy 238. Translated by Ken Liu. An authorized addition to the...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Spy thriller with Blackford Oakes.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-312 [313-320: ads], original orange cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black. First edition. The third R. R. Ryan novel. "Weird thriller in which musical star...
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction Henry Kuttner, John Russell Fearn and also writing as "Polton Cross," A. Bertram Chandler writing as...
London: Century, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Label signed by Davis laid in. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover art by M[argaret] Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Howard Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, Hazel Heald ("Out of the Eons" with an...
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Chronologically Volume 4 in the series of six books.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated Publishers, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-274 [275-278: blank], publisher's red cloth stamped in black, top edge stained gray, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. The dedication is one of...
New York: Random House, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of the author's comedic mystery novels. Made into a feature film in 1967 starring Sid Caeser, Robert Ryan, Anne Baxter, Richard Pryor, Dom DeLuise and...
New York: Arbor House, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Amusing vampire novel.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988. Octavo, full decorated leather. First edition. Limited edition (quantity not stated) bound in full green leather with inserted leaf signed by Ellison. Signed edition which precedes the Houghton Mifflin...
[Cambridge, MA], New England Science Fiction Association, 1971. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. This five-year index, compiled by Anthony Lewis, includes all American and British science fiction magazines published during the period 1966-1970. Intended as...
Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Captain Future story, "Moon of the Unforgotten," by Edmond Hamilton. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. Large octavo, single issue, front cover by Robert Fuqua, rear cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, "bedsheet format." Stories by Philip Nowlan, Robert Moore Williams, Nelson Bond...
[London]: Headline, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Dystopian novel.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1994], Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of ten stories, all first published in Asimov's SF magazine, several involve time travel.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, Publishers, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-314, original orange cloth stamped in dark blue. First edition. Mystery and science fiction novel of a man who can turn himself invisible...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Large octavo, single issue cover painting by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Will Stewart (Jack Williamson) with "Opposites-React!," A. E. Van Vogt, Anthony...
New York: Vantage Press, [1992]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Horror novel.
[Lakewood, CO]: Centipede Press, [2012]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by John Tomerlin, artist J. K. Potter and a facsimile signature of Beaumont. A suspense novel in which...
San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Books, [2002]. Octavo, cover art by Ken Kelly, boards. First combined hardcover edition. One of 150 copies limited copies signed by artist Ken Kelly. Collects BLOODSTONE (1975), DARK CRUSADE...
New York: Putnam, 1975. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Author's second novel.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, jacket art by David Kyle, cloth. First edition. The second Gnome Conan. Collects "The People of the Black Circle," "The Slithering Shadow," "The Pool of the Black...
New York, Smart Set Company, Inc., 1923. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Story, "The Crusader" by Dashiell Hammett writing as "Mary Jane Hammett." [Reference: Laymen, Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography, C13].
[London]: Macdonald Science Fiction, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. The first collection of Niven's hard science fiction stories, eight early works developing the "Known Space" future history. The title story was...
New York: Walker and Company, [1963]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The author's second novel. George Smiley investigates a murder at a important public school.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam, [1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first edition. The first volume in the AEGYPT quartet. "... whose subject is no less than the meaning...
New York: Galaxy Publications (no. 1), later Universal Publishing & Distributing Corp. 1968-1971. Small octavo, four issues, all covers by Jack Gaughan, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. A very good magazine with excellent contributors. Includes...
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