LADY FOR LOVE.
Schultz, Alan Brener.
New York: Diversey Publishing Corp. [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Novel Library NL 42.
New York: Diversey Publishing Corp. [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Novel Library NL 42.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Jones. Winner of the 1991 Tiptree award (tied with A WOMAN OF THE IRON PEOPLE by Eleanor Arnason). [Reference: Anatomy...
San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Large octavo, illustrated by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. Publisher's printed card signed by artist Stephen Fabian laid in. [Reference...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2010. Octavo, imitation leather. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by editor Szumskyj. This is copy 90. Collects unpublished fragment, drafts and miscellanea. Also included is the author's poetry...
[Burton, Michigan]: Subterranean Press, 2006. Octavo, imitation leather. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Silverberg. This is copy "A." Collects sixteen stories from 1955-59.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Full page inscription signed by Farmer to Judy-Lynn Benjamin (later del Rey). A Tarzan pastiche.
Dunellen, NJ: Teck Publishing Corporation, 1932. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Fiction by Francis Flagg, Harl Vincent, Amelia Reynolds Long and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-308, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold and blue, top edge stained dark blue, First edition. A novel in the author's "Sac...
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Kijewski. A Kat Colorado mystery.
New York [and] London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] xi-xii [1-2] 3-323 [324: blank], twelve inserted plates by Miguel Covarrubias, original yellow boards, front and spine stamped in black, top edge...
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The signed and limited issue, one of the publishers copies, labeled P/C on the limitation page.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collects twenty-three stories. An expansion of Lamb's 1989 edition of THE BLACK REAPER published as part of the Equation Chillers series...
NY: Jove, 1977. Wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. Introduction by Harlan Ellison. "A memoir of the baroque adventures and moral education of a young man who joins the crew of a dustwhaler...
Garden City: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twenty-one stories.
London: W.H. Allen, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition.
New York: Magazine Management Co., Inc., Marvel Comics Group, 1972-1974. Octavo, eight issues, pictorial wrappers. All issues penciled by Ross Andru except for the last which is by Rich Buckler. Stories by Steve Englehart, Garnder...
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Popp, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "A Present For Pat" by Philip K. Dick. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction...
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of 250 copies this is one of 224 numbered & signed by Ellison & the editor, Marty Clark. Collects twenty essays, some focusing on...
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In an alternate history novel in which Jews persecuted by the Nazis have a refugee settlement in Alaska. Detective Meyer Landsman investigates murder in the Federal District...
Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Harness on the title page and by contributor David Hartwell on the contents page. Omnibus collection including "The Rose," sixteen shorter fictions, including...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-175 [176: blank], cloth. First edition. The second Gervase Fen novel. Murder in a small English town, perhaps involving a coven of witches or German spies. "...if...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1987]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. 3194 copies printed. Collects eleven stories with foreword by Michael Bishop and illustrations by J. K. Potter. Second book and first...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First book of the Heechee series. Winner of the 1977 Nebula and 1978 Hugo awards for best novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-860. Survey...
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Milt Kovak mystery.
[Lakewood, CO]: Centipede Press, [2020]. Octavo, two volumes, cloth. First editions. One of 500 numbered sets signed by Jack Dann (introduction, vol. 1), John Pelan (editor and afterword), Jim & Ruth Keegan (artists). Facsimile signatures...
[London]: Macdonald, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Gentle. The author's first collection of short fiction. Collects nine stories with introduction by Neil Gaiman.
[Santa Cruz, California: Scream Press, 1983]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. & First hardcover edition. Signed by Campbell and the artist J.K. Potter. This edition restores previously deleted text and adds an autobiographical essay. Also includes...
Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "Piracy Preferred" by John W. Campbell, Jr., also fiction by Edmond Hamilton, p. 2...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2018. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. Of 326 copies this is one of 300 numbered and signed by contributors George R. R. Martin, Cecilia Holland, Ellen Kushner, Garth Nix, K. J. Parker...
Kokomo, IN: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Mainly a reprint magazine, previously published fiction by Frederick C. Davis, Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer, and W.T. Ballard. New stories by...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second novel. 2500 copies printed. "Excellent satire." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-192. 1960 Hugo nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1203. Pringle, Science...
Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002. First edition. Of 2000 copies this is one of 1700 numbered and not signed. A miscellany of mostly short nonfiction and poetry, including five short short stories.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Set in Baltimore in the 1960s.
Dunellen, NJ: Teck Publishing Corporation, 1932. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes a Professor Jameson story "Return of the Tripeds" by Neil R. Jones. The third...
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Patrol of the Purple Clan." [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 253-255].
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Genetically altered genius has an alternate "normal" persona. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1273].
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