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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1960. Octavo, illustration by Gary Gore, cloth. First edition. 1559 copies printed. Classic werewolf novel, revised from the publication as a Weird Tales serial in 1925. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror...

New York: D. Appleton and Company 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1881. Octavo, pp. [1]-231 [232: blank] [333-340]: ads, flyleaves at front and rear, eight inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, by Frederick...

New York: Ace Books, [1986]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Contemporary fantasy writer is attacked by a psychic vampire. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-95. Pringle (ed.), St. James Guide to Fantasy...

New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Moore, a presentation copy: "For Jean & Julie Schwartz / with the best wishes of / C.L. Moore." Very nice association...

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-319 [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John and twelve full-page St. John illustrations in the text, original orange cloth...

[New York}: Tor, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The Tales of Alvin Maker, Vol. 1. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 4A-58.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1970 Ace edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987)...

[Boston: The Harvard Lampoon, Inc., 1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later printing. Vanitas V4402. Paperback original. Second printing, January 1963 on the copyright page. Parody of the James Bond series by the Harvard Lampoon.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-312, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first book, a horror novel of castaways at sea. "This novel...

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Sequel of a sort to Burn, Witch, Burn! A good mystery thriller, with even some moments...

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Bob Hilbreth, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British hardcover edition. Alternative to the quite scarce Ballantine hardcover edition, the English edition is also somewhat uncommon. Collects twelve stories including "Rescue Party" the author's first...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by A.R. Tilburne, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Seabury Quinn, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber and others.

Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Surrealistic fantasy of a man awakes with no memory and journey through a strange land looking for the woman who woke beside him.

[Columbus, OH: Gary Hoppenstand, 1975]. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Magazine. Includes part two of the unedited version of the first Kane novel, DARKNESS WEAVES and the Kane story "The Dark Muse." "

[London]: A Rapp and Whiting Book / Andre Deutsch, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "Ornate sf/fantasy novel adventure novel involving a super-rich, near-immortal 'worldscaper' who is threatened by various aliens and...

Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club, Inc. By Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x-xii] [1] 2-307 [308: blank]. original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black...

London: Arthur Barker Ltd., [1936]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Murder mystery by the author of Vampires Overhead.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazine and pulp sources. The first of this series. Collects fourteen stories with G.T. Fleming Roberts...

Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel.

Buxton: Wendigo, 1993. Octavo, photographs by Michael Patey-Ford, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. Collects the title story which won World Fantasy Best Novella award in 1994 and five others. "Memorably atmospheric stories that juxtapose simple...

[New York]: Bluejay Books Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription dated by the Simmons on the title page. The author's first book, "a stunningly original horror novel, one of the best published in...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.

New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. George Janes, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover by Carroll John Daly, Frank Gruber, Stewart Sterling and others, Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage...

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Fuqua, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. The author's first book. A collection of hard SF stories first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION during the 1940s.

Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1957. Octavo, single issue, cover by Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine. Includes "Midadjustment" by Philip K. Dick. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF...

New York: Pantheon Books, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Utopian novel by the author of The Yellow Wallpaper. This was originally published in 1915 in the magazine The Forerunner. In an all female society...

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1586. Paperback original. Collect eighteen stories, introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Richard Matheson.

[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, Summer 1967 - Summer 1971 (numbers 1-10). Octavo, self wrappers, bound in publisher's black cloth. One of 676 complete sets hardbound in black cloth by the publisher. All published. A....

[New York: Bluejay Books, Inc., 1984]. First edition. Collects fourteen stories first published between 1939 and 1955.

[London]: Wandering Star:, [2001]. Octavo, illustrated by Gary Gianni cloth. First edition. One of 850 copies with inserted illustrated plate signed by the Gianni. Collects in one volume all of the Bran Mak Morn stories...

[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3526 copies printed. The author's first collection of short fiction, sixteen SF and fantasy stories including "When It Changed," winner of the 1972...

Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of fourteen stories and a memoir by E. Hoffmann Price.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Gilmore, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 3 of "Gray Lensman" and "Discord in Scarlet" by A.E. van Vogt - a....

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1993]. Octavo, illustrations by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. Retrospective collection of thirty-nine stories. "A cornerstone collection of modern horror." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999)...