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New York: Ace Books, Inc. [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books #S-67. Paperback original.

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Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. 1963. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. First published the same year as MADMAN'S BEND. Features Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte of the...

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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1967. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Signed and dated on the title page. Co-winner of the 1966 Nebula award for best novel. "Clever, colorful, and highly original..." -...

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Chicago: Herbet M. Stone and Co. 1903. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection, mostly mystery oriented but some fantasy/horror content.

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1941]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first science fiction book. An early classic of modern SF in which the protagonist is thrown back in time to the end...

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New York: Hillman, 1950. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Hillman No. 41. Paperback original. Signed by Vance on the title page. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-185. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature...

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New York: Random House, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Berenson on the title page. The author's first spy thriller and the debut of his character John Wells. Edgar award winner for best first novel.

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London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. An expansion of The Burning World (1964). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-27.

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New York: Bookfinger, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Text offset from that of the 1936 Wright & Brown edition. The occult detective's first case, a non-fantastic mystery.

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New York: Rinehart & Co. 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition.

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. In addition to the fine title story, this collection of short fiction includes "The NRACP," which depicts a racist...

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New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Ray Bradbury; "Defense Mech," Henry Kuttner, Gardner F. Fox and others.

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Del Rey and Pohl on the front free endpaper: "Lester Del Rey / and / + Fred Pohl / = Edson McCann". Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-275A.

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Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. nd [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First printing with code "D 33" on page 149. The author's first book. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club.

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London: Collins, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

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New York: Bookfinger, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Text offset from that of the 1937 Wright & Brown edition. An occult detective novel. Gees investigates a haunted farm. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction...

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Philadelphia: J. Murray Jordan, [1903]. Octavo, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gilt. First edition. Mystery novel involving gambling and adventure overseas.

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New York: E.P Dutton & Co., Inc. 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of sixteen stories. Includes "The Return of Schlock Holmes" by Robert L. Fish and "Blurred View" by John D. MacDonald.

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New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper and Row, Publishers, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition.

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-61.

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London and New York: White Lion Publishers, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. The second Dorian Hawkmoon novel. The second volume in the "History of the Runestaff", sequel to THE JEWEL IN THE SKULL. "First-class...

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West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1976. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three novelettes, "Swords of the Red Brotherhood," first published here, "Black Vulmea's Vengeance", first published in Golden Fleece (1938) and...

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New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The $400,000 ransom on a kidnapping case leaves Steve Conway, a copper, holding the bag- the empty suitcase in which the money was...

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Norfolk/Virginia Beach: Donning, [1982]. Octavo, illustrated by Stephen E. Fabian, pictorial boards. Later edition (first limited edition). Part of the "limited edition" (quantity not specified) with a printed label, numbered and signed by de Camp...

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Chicago: Pulp Press, 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Study and survey of The Shadow.

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[New York]: William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2013]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Gaiman on a tipped in leaf.

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1940]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Mike Shayne detective novel.

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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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Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc. 2001. Octavo, orignal gray cloth. First edition. Collects a short mystery novel featuring a private investigator set in the early 1960s, and three short stories (all non-SF).

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New York: George H. Doran Company, [1922]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xii 13-252 [253-254: blank], original black cloth, front and spine lettered in red. First U.S. edition. A series of connected stories featuring...

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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1934]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii 1-280 + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "634" at bottom of page 8 inserted at rear, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition...

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[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR147. Book 2 in this series. Collects five stories first published in the horror pulp TERROR TALES...

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SF/Columbia: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Bloch. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles...

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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-5] 6-123[124: blank] [5-7] 8-190 [3-5] 6-134 [3-5] 6-164 [165-166: ads] [note:complete in spite of gaps in pagination], fly leaves at front and rear, original medium brown cloth...

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New York: An Onyx Book, New American Library, [1989]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Onyx JE 147. Paperback original. The author's first book and first Sonja Blue vampire novel. Winner 1990 Bram Stoker award...

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New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Octavo, decorated wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. A short history of the American paperback, includes a number of cover reproductions including several color sections.

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