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London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1934]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii 1-280 + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "634" at bottom of page 8 inserted at rear, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition...

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New York: E.P. Dutton, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof in blue wrappers.

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. John D. MacDonald story, "Case of the Burning Blonde." Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective...

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Boston: Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co. 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-324, three inserted plates with photographic illustrations, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black, white, gold and...

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London: Hutchinson, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Signed by Clarke on the title page with Arthur C. Clarke Foundation blind stamp and Foundation's secretary ink stamp to half title page, Foundation ink stamp to...

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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-276 [277-280: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in red, top edge stained red, fore-edge rough cut. First edition. The author's third...

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New York: Rinehart & Co. 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition.

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1970. Octavo, illustration by Amelia S. Edwards, cloth. First edition. The elusive first volume in the Amber series. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-276. Schlobin, The Literature of...

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New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper and Row, Publishers, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition.

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Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc. 2001. Octavo, orignal gray cloth. First edition. Collects a short mystery novel featuring a private investigator set in the early 1960s, and three short stories (all non-SF).

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New York: Dell Published Company, Inc. [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10 cent Book #33. Paperback original. This story was first published in Mystery Book Magazine, Summer, 1950.

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New York: Forge:, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The...

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Chicago: Herbet M. Stone and Co. 1903. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection, mostly mystery oriented but some fantasy/horror content.

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New York and London: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first hardcover.

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New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1978. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel. This copy features a promotional dust jacket for the film, spine of the jacket reads "Wolfen The...

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New York: William Morrow and Company., Inc. 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. 1991 Nebula award winner.

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New York: Ace Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The Sun moves through space on it's own and the earth via the construction of giant propulsion rings around the world moves after it. A supercomputer...

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New York: Timescape Books, [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Episodic novel featuring Cugel the Clever. Includes "The Seventeen Virgins" and "The Bagful of Dreams."

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The legend of King Arthur from the viewpoint of the women characters. Made into a television mini-series. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-48.

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New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1973. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Philip St. Ives novel. "[The Bleeck titles]...are distinguished for their crisp dialogue, unusual backgrounds, and understated sense of irony." Pronzini...

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover by Toney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Issued to capitalize on the success of Doc Savage and the Shadow, a somewhat more adult character...

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[London]: Macmillan, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second book in the "Void" trilogy. "For members of the Living Dream religion, the Void is the promised land, a place where they could live exactly as they...

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New York: Popular Library, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Popular Library #139. Mystery novel.

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Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1953. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1217 copies printed. Collects three stories, largely revised by H. P. Lovecraft, and profiles of Lovecraft and August Derleth. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-24. Bleiler...

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Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-5] 6-123[124: blank] [5-7] 8-190 [3-5] 6-134 [3-5] 6-164 [165-166: ads] [note:complete in spite of gaps in pagination], fly leaves at front and rear, original medium brown cloth...

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New York: Vanguard Press, 1931. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-294 [295-296: blank], original red cloth, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained red. First edition. The author's third novel to be published in book form...

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San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover editions. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance on a special limitation page. The three volumes which comprise the Alastor trilogy. Anatomy of...

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Parallel world, the main character is a werewolf. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 21. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1160-63.

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New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Ray Bradbury; "Defense Mech," Henry Kuttner, Gardner F. Fox and others.

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New York: Bookfinger, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Text offset from that of the 1937 Wright & Brown edition. An occult detective novel. Gees investigates a haunted farm. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction...

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New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-43.

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New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Octavo, decorated wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. A short history of the American paperback, includes a number of cover reproductions including several color sections.

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New York: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding. Story collection, all first appeared in Astounding magazine. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-130.

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New York: An Onyx Book, New American Library, [1989]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Onyx JE 147. Paperback original. The author's first book and first Sonja Blue vampire novel. Winner 1990 Bram Stoker award...

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Latham, New York: British American Publishing, 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Coben on the half-title and signed again (no inscription) on the title page. Author's second novel. A suspense thriller concerning a....

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