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Baltimore, Maclay & Associates, 1992. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 500 copies numbered and signed by Nolan. Thin trade paperback.
Baltimore, Maclay & Associates, 1992. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 500 copies numbered and signed by Nolan. Thin trade paperback.
Chicago, IL: Better Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Edmond Hamilton, Murray Leinster and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Ed and Am Hunter mystery novel.
New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, [1909]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-194 [note: title leaf is a cancel tipped in on a stub], inserted frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, original red cloth...
London: Arthur Barker, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-575 [576: blank], folded genealogical table tipped to p. [576], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. [Reference: Higginson A43a].
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Edmond Hamilton, Murray Leinster writing as William Fitzgerald, Margaret St. Clair, and Ray Bradbury "The Shape of...
Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company. [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel and the debut of Harry Bosch. Winner of the Edgar award for best first novel.
New York: Pinnacle Books, [1972]. Small octavo, cover by Harry Borgman, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Third in this series. Dracula is revived in the present day and is controlled by an implanted electronic...
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-328, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Egyptian sorcery versus Nazi spies...
Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1890. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-415 [416: ad] [note: first leaf is a half title leaf], fifteen inserted plates with illustrations by W. Bretsnyder, original decorated navy blue bevel-edged cloth, front...
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
[Lakewood, CO]: Centipede Press, [2021]. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Jo Fletcher (afterword), David Ho and Roger Gerberding (artists). Facsimile signature of Herbert. This is copy number 1. This...
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Signed on the title page by Vance. Text offset from that of the 1966 Ace Books edition. New introduction by Robert Silverberg. Episodic novel...
New York: The Dial Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-111].
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A modern-day TOPPER with a science-fiction twist ..." (publisher's blurb).
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1962 Ace edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. This is the first published...
[London]: Arnold Fairbairns & Co. Ltd., 1908. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-163 [164: printer's imprint] [165-166: ads] [167-168: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial light blue cloth, front panel stamped in white...
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2004. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of supernatural fiction.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Signed on the title page by Vance. Text offset from that of the 1966 Ace Books edition. New introduction by Robert Silverberg. Episodic novel...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Includes three novels, HUNTINGTONTOWER, JOHN McNAB and THE THREE HOSTAGES. The last of the three is a Richard Hannay novel.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. The first story from THE BANNER OF THE BULL. Publisher's promotion issued in this format for coming publication of the Definitive Edition of Sabatini's...
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first book in the author's Fourth Realm trilogy. Set in the near future a secret society known as The Brethren or The...
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is one of 100 numbered copies specially bound in quarter cloth and marbled boards signed by Simmons...
Garden City: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twenty-one stories.
[Encino: Black Coat Press, 2005]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Modern translation of the classic work first published in the mid 19th Century in France. Excellent introductory material by Stableford. " Vampire tale strongly influenced...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Williamson on the front free endpaper, dated in 1977.Collects an article and eleven of Williamson's early stories published between 1928...
[London]: Millington, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First trade hardcover edition. Preceded by the British Science Fiction Book Club edition. Signed on the title page by Ellison. Collects sixteen stories from magazine sources. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide...
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Six detective tales selected from PRINCE ZALESKI (1895) and THE PALE APE (1911).
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-three stories, includes three Nameless Detective stories. Two are co-written with Barry Malzberg. [Reference: Hubin, p. 657].
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Walter M. Miller, Jr., Anthony Boucher, E. Hoffman Price and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird...
London: Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d., [1946]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. Perl, pictorial wrappers, stapled. This the variant cover by Perl. The first of two issues published. Most of the stories were reprinted...
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, [1974]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Moses Wine mystery, set in Southern California.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Published in the U. K. as THE COMMODORE. Sea adventure during the...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Advance reader's copy with publisher slip laid in.
London: Tower Publishing Company Limited, 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-393 [394: ad], inserted frontispiece with illustration by E. S. Hope and sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Fred T. Jane, original pictorial bevel-edged...
Buffalo, NY: Published by Weirdbook Press, [1984]. Large octavo, illustrations by Jim Pitts, pictorial wrappers. First edition. 1200 copies printed of which this one of approximately 950 paperbound copies. Collects ten stories.
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