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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection. "Nine SF stories, more long than short, have an added ingredient of philosophy, of the theory that ""never can a....

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1961]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ed Emshwiller, cloth. First edition. The account of an expedition exploring a remote region of the lunar surface during the early years of human...

San Francisco, California: A. M. Robertson, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-99 [100], title page printed in black and red, original pictorial tan boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first binding. Signed...

New York: Trident Press, [1968]. Octavo, jacket by Diane and Leon Dillon, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Ellison to fellow author Tom Disch: "For Tim Disch-- / with awe. / Harlan Ellison...

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-332 [333-334: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Collects thirteen stories, several crime, two of which were...

New York: William Morrow and Company Inc., [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed and dated by Leiber on the title page. Collects four Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales, including Leiber's full-length novel...

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-256 [257: ad] [258: blank] [259-263: ads] [264: blank] [265-267: ads] [268: blank], ten inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green...

New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "New Bodies For Old" by Jack Vance, a Chateau d'If story, "Battling Bolto" by L. Ron Hubbard...

New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera."...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Lew Archer novel. Two teenagers runaway and get involved in a kidnapping. A tragic past is exposed. "...simply tragic and haunting" -...

Kingston, New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Handi-Book #120. Paperback original. The author's first book.

London: Century, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Barron (ed.): Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-67.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Kent Bash, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Bash. The author's second book. Winner of the 1991 John...

Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal d1640 Paperback original. C.I.A. agent Sam Durell. Bill Pronzini writing of the Sam Durell novels "Despite all the violence and melodrama...[the]...

San Bernadino, CA; Penn Valley, CA & Lancaster, PA: R. Reginald, The Borgo Press; Underwood-Miller, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition, trade issue. Foreward by Robert Silverberg. Bibliography of books, short fiction, verse, non-fiction and...

[London]: Cecil Palmer, [1927]. Octavo, [1-2] [i-iv] vvii [viii] 1-276 [277-78], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in white, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The first of Burrage's two collections of weird fiction (the...

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantasy novel.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Nebula award winner for best novel. "...a complex and expertly told novel, making adroit use of the basic right-of-passage structure that underlies...

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover art by T. Wyatt Nelson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn, E. Hoffman Price, August Derleth and Mark Schorer, Clark Ashton...

New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books D353. Collects ten stories by Robert Bloch, H. P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, and others.

[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the Baxter. The author's second novel and the second book in Baxter's "Xeelee" sequence. "Nastly alien's enslave the human race, but there may be a....

Mount Morris, IL: Stellar Publications Corporation, 1932. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes Neil R. Jones, Fletcher Pratt, Raymond Z. Gallun and others. Tymn and...

Chicago, IL: Fictioneers, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael De Soto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes stories Robert Reeves (Cellini Smith), Brett Halliday (Mike Shayne), Julius Long, and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and...

New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue cover by Jerry Delano, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. First of four issues of this Clayton magazine. Historical fiction oriented magazine.

New York: Avalon Books, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. "In Big Planet Vance provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for...

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature story, a John Carter of Mars adventure, "The City of Mummies" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This...

New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1966]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Edgar award nominee.

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1970. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. Poetry collection. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 6-30.

New York: Pinnacle Books, [1974]. Small octavo, cover by Victor Valla, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Seventh in this series. Dracula is revived in the present day and is controlled by an implanted electronic...

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1979. Octavo, jacket illustration by George Barr, green leatherette. First edition. One of 175 numbered copies signed by Vance. Collects nine stories by Vance. Foreword by Poul Anderson and...

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Hard boiled story by the author of I Wake Up Screaming.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. The author's first book. "Likable hoodlum Jonny Qabbala has run-ins with various gangsters and corrupt powers in a decaying Lost Angeles of...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fourth Lew Archer novel. "...is rare for the early Fifties in that it deals with volatile racial issues in a sensitive and compassionate manner...

Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2016. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirty of the author's stories, starting with his first, from the period 1937-1940 which appeared in the pulp magazines Weird Tales, Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling...

New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-vii 9-319 [320: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, top stained dark blue. First edition. An episodic novel first published in...

Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the August 1943 U. S. publication. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to...