• THE KILLING MACHINE.

    THE KILLING MACHINE.

    [New York]: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1964]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F1003. Paperback original. Signed by Vance on the title page. The second volume in the Demon Princes...

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  • THE GHOST WAR.

    THE GHOST WAR.

    New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Berenson on a tipped in page. Spy thriller. The second to feature his character John Wells.

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  • THE DEATH GUARD.

    THE DEATH GUARD.

    London: Hutchinson & Company, n.d. [1939]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first and only novel. Signed inscription by Chadwick on the front free endpaper. The novel is narrated by Gregory Beldite, the current owner...

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  • SPELLS AND PHILTRES.

    SPELLS AND PHILTRES.

    Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1958. Octavo, jacket art by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Poetry.

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  • THE SHADOW.

    THE SHADOW.

    New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. 10th Anniversary issue. "The Time Master" by Maxwell Grant. Also includes a Stephen Gould (pseudonym...

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  • WHO!

    WHO!

    London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. 1962. Octavo, boards. First edition. "An American scientist is badly injured in an explosion, then "repaired" by Soviet doctors and returned to the USA. The problem is that he is now...

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  • THE KILLER INSIDE ME.

    THE KILLER INSIDE ME.

    New York: A Lion Book, [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion #99. Paperback original. The author's first paperback original, a dark novel of a psychopathic sheriff. Filmed in 1976 with Stacy Keach in the title role.

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  • LIMBO.

    LIMBO.

    New York: Random House, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Zany, action packed, Joycean in style, Limbo is formally and conceptually complex and unremittingly analytical, both politically and psychologically." - David N. Samuelson/Curtis C. Smith (ed.)...

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  • ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine. Part 1 of "The Cometeers" by Jack Williamson. Stories by Don A....

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  • NIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE: A BOOK OF STRANGE TALES. Introduction by Richard Dalby.

    NIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE: A....

    Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints the stories collected in NIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1926) with new introduction by Dalby. Lawrence's early weirds cover traditional...

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  • MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS.

    MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. World Fantasy Award winner for best collection. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-48.

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  • STRANGER THINGS.

    STRANGER THINGS.

    New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection, some supernatural. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, #441.

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  • FROM POTTER'S FIELD.

    FROM POTTER'S FIELD.

    New York: Scribner's, 1995. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof. The sixth Kay Scarpetta novel.

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  • AMAZING STORIES.

    AMAZING STORIES.

    Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Edmund Swiatek, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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  • ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.

    ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.

    New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1943. Octavo, single issue cover painting by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes "Opposites-React!" by Will Stewart (Jack Williamson), part of the Seetee series. Also...

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  • G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.

    G-8 and HIS BATTLE ACES.

    Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc. 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Patrol of the Purple Clan."

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  • ODD JOHN: A STORY BETWEEN JEST AND EARNEST.

    ODD JOHN: A STORY BETWEEN JEST...

    London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1935]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-282 + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "835" at bottom of page 8 inserted at rear, original light blue cloth, spine panel stamped in dark...

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  • ENVIOUS CASCA.

    ENVIOUS CASCA.

    Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-311 [312], original gray cloth, front and spine stamped in red. First edition. An Inspector...

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  • THE STAR FOX.

    THE STAR FOX.

    Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Anderson on the title page. Militant space opera in which a tough ex-Navy captain protecting the space colony New Europe convinces a....

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  • NIGHTMARE JOURNEY.

    NIGHTMARE JOURNEY.

    New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, distributed by G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Science fiction novel.

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  • THE TERRACES OF THE NIGHT: BEING FURTHER CHRONICLES OF THE 'CLUB OF THE ROUND TABLE. Introduction by Richard Dalby.

    THE TERRACES OF THE NIGHT: BEING...

    Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 600 copies. Reprints the twelve stories collected in THE TERRACES OF NIGHT (1932) with new introduction by Richard Dalby. A collection of supernatural...

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  • CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER.

    CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER.

    London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Six stories featuring Carnacki, an occult detective. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-89. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 819. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 114. Survey...

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  • BLOOD RELATIVES.

    BLOOD RELATIVES.

    New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by McBain. An 87th Precinct novel. Filmed in 1978 with Donald Sutherland with the setting moved to Montreal.

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  • FORBIDDEN PLANET.

    FORBIDDEN PLANET.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novelization of the classic 1950s science fiction film starring Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis. The story is based on The Tempest by William Shakespeare.

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  • IMMORTALITY DELIVERED.

    IMMORTALITY DELIVERED.

    New York: Avalon Books, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Hugo award nominee, 1959. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-157.

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  • PRIVATE DETECTIVE STORIES.

    PRIVATE DETECTIVE STORIES.

    New York: Trojan Publishing Corp. 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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  • MR. MURDER.

    MR. MURDER.

    [London]: Headline, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The British edition precedes the American edition. Suspense novel involving a serial killer. Produced as a made for TV film in 1998.

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  • THE SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: IMAGINATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM.

    THE SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: IMAGINATION AND...

    Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc. 1969 [i.e. 1974]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A collection of four essays by Robert A. Heinlein, C. M. Kornbluth, Alfred Bester and Robert Bloch with introduction by Basil Davenport. Anatomy of...

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