BORN TO EXILE.
Eisenstein, Phyllis.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantasy novel.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantasy novel.
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1927. Octavo, single issue, cover art by C. C. Senf, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Bassett Morgan (pseudonym for Grace Jones Morgan), Edmond Hamilton, Greye La Spina...
Chicago: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Edgar A. Whitney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Steve Fisher, Frederick C. Davis and others.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. All volumes either signed or inscribed by Norton. Comprises WITCH WORLD (1963), WEB OF THE WITCH WORLD (1964), THREE AGAINST THE WITCH WORLD (1965), WARLOCK OF THE...
No place: Biting Dog Press, 2001. Octavo, wood engravings by George Walker, illustrated cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Gaiman and artist George Walker. Script for the audio play of MURDER...
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Margaret Brundage. pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Frank Gruber, Robert Bloch, Seabury Quinn, Manly Wade Wellman writing as "Gans T. Field,"...
New York, Evanston, and London: Harper & Row Publishers, [1958, i.e. 1966]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-x [1-2] 3-147 [148-150: blank], cloth-backed boards. Later edition. "Essay arguing that the extrapolation of 1932 Huxley was...
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes "The Pirates of Venus," part 2 of six by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Also fiction by...
London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-318 [319: printer's imprint] [320: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in...
New York: Ballantine Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ballantine Books U2171. Collects fourteen stories selected from the Ballantine Star Science Fiction Stories series by C. M. Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch...
Athens, OH. Ohio University Press, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, (trade paperback issue). This is the trade paperback issue. Critical writings on Lovecraft's work. Contributors include, S.T. Joshi, Edmund Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Peter Penzoldt...
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter.
New York: Metropolitan Books, Inc. Publishers, [1930]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-301 [302: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by J. Allen St. John, original light green...
London: Michael Joseph, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Francis on the front free endpaper. An Edgar award nominee. A Sid Halley novel. [Reference: Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to...
Brussel: A.N.U.M. Leuven, nd [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Title translates as: THE ABC OF THE NAZI REGIME. Small booklet published after WW II, anti-Nazi alphabet book in Dutch. Illustrated by Herman Vos.
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover art by M[argaret] Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert E. Howard ("Black Canaan" - a voodoo story), August Derleth, Jack Williamson...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET...
Boston: Gregg Press, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. The first hardcover edition of the revised text. Photographically reproduced from a copy of the 1969 Sphere Books edition, the only complete text and the...
New York, Evanston... Harper & Row, Publishers, [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner of 1977 Hugo award. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-497. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2469-73]...
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Limited to 726 copies this is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Simmons. "Simmons (Summer of Night, Carrion Comfort, Song of Kali...
New York: Putnam, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. hardcover edition. One of 800 numbered copies signed by Koontz.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Mongo novel.
Philadelphia: The Chamberlain Press, Inc., 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Matheson on the title page. The author's first book, a collection of seventeen stories with introduction by Robert Bloch. "...the best of this...
New York: The Fiction League, 1931. Octavo, pp. [3-6] 7-320 [321-322: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. An early techno-thriller featuring...
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. The third book of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Title novel, "Spoils of the Shadow" by Maxwell Grant. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and...
New York: Tor, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. The author's first novel, first published in 1982 as a paperback original. A "remarkably powerful" fantasy set during the Holocaust that won the 1982 National Book...
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-320, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained green. First U. S. edition. A locked room mystery featuring Dr...
New York: Tor, [2009]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Scholes on the title page. Fantasy novel. The second book in the Psalms of Isaak series.
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-304 [10 page publisher's catalog inserted in rear], original beige cloth, front stamped in red, black and white, spine stamped in red, fore edge uncut...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Arnold Kohn, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Rog Phillips and others. Lead story by S. M. Tenneshaw is house pseudonym, here unknown. [Reference: Tymm...
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Jose Da Silva mystery novel.
London: Sidney L. Ollif, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-262 [263: ad] [264: printer's imprint] [265-266: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), half title and title leaves...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. and First combined editions. Two fantasy novellas aimed toward the youger audience. "Lee's books for children, in fact, have a clarity and directness which make...
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Anthology of stories. Estleman, Hillerman, Block, Pronzini, Gores, Paretsky and others.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed to noted fan, dealer and a founder of First Fandom, Bob Madle (Robert A. Madle). Collects seven stories, five featuring Northwest...
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