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New York: Tor, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Errata slip laid in.

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.

[Ann Arbor, MI: Edwin Aprill, Jr., 1966]. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. One of 300 copies printed. Collects THE SPIRIT daily newspaper strips numbers 1-93, 1941-42. Color cover with black and white interior...

Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Algis Budrys, Frank Belknap Long, and others. The next to last issue. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley...

London: Robert Hale, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. A Travis McGee novel. First published in 1968 as a paperback original, this is the first hardcover publication, preceding the U.S. hardcover edition...

New York: Charter, [1980]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's first mystery novel. A locked room mystery.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Charles F. Miller Publisher, [1995]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Fabian on the copyright page to Helen de la Ree, additionally inscribed and signed by Sam Moskowitz at the...

[London]: Philip Allan, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-271 [272: blank], original blue-green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. Enlarged edition. New edition of THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE (1921) with four additional stories. "Collection of stories supposedly...

New York: Tor, [1992]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. Collection of short stories, several one not having been in hardcover before. Winner (tie) of the World Fantasy Award...

[London]: Headline, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The British edition precedes the American edition. Suspense novel involving a serial killer. Produced as a made for TV film in 1998.

New York: Random House, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. Book club edition. Light tan cloth and dust jacket not priced with "Young Readers Of America" slug at head of front flap, no ads to rear panel. The...

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1929. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Hugh Rankin, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn, Robert E. Howard ("Skull-Face," conclusion), Clark Ashton Smith (verse), E. F....

New York: New American Library, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. ediiton.

San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1995]. Octavo, illustrated by Francisco Mora, cloth backed boards. First edition. Children's fantasy novel. "Thoughtful Jerold and the more reckless, appropriately named Gerund are two boys...

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company Inc., 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-306 [307-310: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black, cream coated endpapers, top...

Minneapolis: World Fantasy Convention & Dreamhaven Books, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Book issued by the 1993 World Fantasy Convention. Anthology of stories by Kathe Koja and Barry Malzberg, Charles de Lint, John M. Ford...

[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. Six short novels and stories, two of which were Nebula nominees.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Aldiss. Introduction by James Gunn. "Roy Burnell likes his...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-327 [328-330], original pictorial light blue cloth, front panel stamped in gray and black, spine panel stamped in black, fore edge untrimmed. First edition. The first...

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition, first printing with code "M36" on page 365. Fourth novel in the Foundation series. "A belated sequel to the 'Foundation Trilogy,' marking Asimov's...

New York: Tor, 2014. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first U.S. edition. First of the Dune prequels. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].

London: Heinemann:, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Adam Bolitho sea adventure, set in 1815.

Eugene, OR: Hypatia Press, 1987. Octavo, leather. First hardcover edition. One of 250 leather bound copies numbered with roman numerals, signed by "Bertie" MacAvoy, introducer Anne McCaffrey, and artist Leslie Newcomer. The author's first book...

Philadelphia: Prime Press, [1950]. Octavo, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Signed by Smith on the title page. First serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944.

London: Robert Hale, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Signed by Block on the title page. Even though the third originally published this is the second in the Matt Scudder series. Edgar...

Seattle: Midnight House, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies. The first volume of Birkin's work from this publisher. Collects thirteen stories, a preface by Michael Ashley and an introduction by Birkin...

[North Yorkshire, England]: Tartarus Press, [MMIII], 2003. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects all of Howard's weird fiction, three stories first published in WE ARE FOR THE DARK (1951) and an additional story from 1975. Limited...

New York: An Inner Sanctum Mystery Published by Simon and Schuster, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first American hardcover as Ed McBain and the first American hardcover of an 87th Precinct novel. "Killer's...

London: Dennis Dobson, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1991]. Octavo, illustrations by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Elizabeth Anne Hull. Part of this novel first appeared as a novella in ANALOG and won...

New York: Random House, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A sequel of sorts to LOST BOY LOST GIRL (2003). The novel features the protagonist of the previous novel, author Timothy Underhill. As he is working...

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-302, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. The second mystery novel featuring detective Vee (Vivian) Brown who...

New York: Metropolitan Books, Inc. Publishers, [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-319 [320: blank], inserted frontispiece with illustration by Hugh Hutton, original red mesh weave cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow-green, top edge stained...

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2017. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven stories influenced by David McKean's art. Author's include Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Alastair Reynolds, Iain Sinclair and others.

London: Robert Hale Limited, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. [Reference: Hubin, p. 526].

New York: Love Romances, 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes "Forever and the Earth" by Ray Bradbury. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction...