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New York: Norton, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Professor Jameson story by Neil R. Jones. This is the final issue. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Set in Baltimore in the 1960s.

Kingston, New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The second published novel under his own name by this prolific writer, known for his hard-boiled stories, usually with...

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A dark mystery. The violent protaganist kills a man and eventually lands in jail for another crime. A woman whom, he can't stay away...

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Shaw on the title page.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-428, nine inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition, first printing...

New York: The Ballantine Publishing Group, [1999]. Octavo, First edition. Biological suspense. Winner of the 2000 Nebula Award for best novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-92].

Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and...

[Chicago: Newsstand Library Inc., 1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Newsstand Library #U170. Paperback original.

New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1929. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Fiction by Miles J. Breur, A. Hyatt Verrill, V. Orlovsky and George Mclociard. [Reference...

New York: Tor, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology ofthirteen horror stories in honor of H. P. Lovecraft, by Ray Garton, Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley, Gary Brandner, Hugh B. Cave, Chet Williamson, Gene Wolfe...

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xi] xii [xiii-xiv] [1] 2-198 [199] [200-202: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], boards. First edition. Thirty-six essays focusing on the current state...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Ray Quigley, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert Bloch, G. G. Pendarves, Seabury Quinn, Robert E. Howard (verse), and others. [Reference...

New York: Ace Publishing Corporation, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books 94200. Paperback original. "Time travellers are horrified to find a near-future America riven by interracial war. A simple but moving cautionary...

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1986. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. One of limited edition copies signed by Vance, not numbered one of approximately ten copies stamped "presentation copy." Collection of fourteen early stories...

New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three Nero Wolfe mystery stories. "A Window for Death," "Immune to Murder," and "Too Many Detectives." First published in magazines; The American Magazine and...

London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-328 [Note: first leaf is a blank], original decorated brown cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, Heinemann windmill device stamped in blind on rear panel. First...

New York: J. F. Douthitt, 1892. Large octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8 [9] 10-318 [319: blank] [320: ad], flyleaves at front and rear, frontispiece, 45 illustrations by C. Durand Chapman and others, original bevel-edged...

Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael DeSoto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Zara-Master of Murder!" with Norvell Page writing as "Grant Stockbridge." The character was established to be a direct competitor...

[New York]: Avon Books, [1975]. Octavo, cover art by George Wilson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon 23085. The thirteenth volume in this series. Adapted from a story by Lee Falk.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946-1959. Octavo, three volumes, cloth. First editions. The three published books of the "Gormenghast" sequence. Comprises Titus Groan (1946), Gormenghast (1950), and Titus Alone (1959). Gormenghast was filmed by the BBC...

New York: Dutton, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Partially original anthology of "nineteen startling stories about sex and the alien-and about human sexuality in all its alien forms" - from the jacket copy...

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to Seetee Ship. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1261].

[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR114. Book 14 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and...

New York: Ballantine Books, [1969]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Signed by Niven on the title page. The author's second collection with twelve stories, several from the "Known Space" setting. [Reference: See...

[Leyburn, North Yorkshire]: Tartarus Press, [MMI], 2001. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects thirty-seven of the author's best tales. Introduction by Mark Valentine. Limited to 350 copies.

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1929. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Hugh Rankin, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn, Robert E. Howard ("Skull-Face," conclusion), Clark Ashton Smith (verse), E. F....

[Burton, Michigan]: Subterranean Press, 2010-2014. Octavo, 5 volumes, jacket art all volumes by Bill Sienkiewicz, imitation leather. New editions, expanded. One of 250 numbered copies. These are all copy number 29. These new editions which...

New York: Bouregy & Curl, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. A classic modern SF novel, better known under its later alternate title THE PARADOX MEN. "Alar the Thief fights the...

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, illustration by Jan Esteves, boards. First edition. Story collection.

[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Collects a series of letters from Bierce to Samuel Loveman, 1908-1913. Introduction by Donald R. Burleson.

London: Dennis Dobson, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Intelligence agent Brion Bayard is thrust into a weird universe of time travel and time crimes.

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. The author's first hardcover title. "Future piracy and old-fashioned megalomania play prominent roles in this novel of space...

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1990]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "A genetically engineered individual grows up with a split, Jekyll-and-Hyde personality: part of him is a superhuman, part belongs to normal humanity...

[New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., 1943]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Handi-Books #19.