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San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. First edition. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A13g.

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New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature story is the first Hawk Carse by Anthony Gilmore.

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New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-ii] iii [iv] 1-425 [426: blank] [427-429: ads] [430-432: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], inserted frontispiece with color illustration by A....

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New York: Random House, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Twenty-one stories by Bryce Walton, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, and others.

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.

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Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company. [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. The second Travis McGee novel.

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Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First edition. World Fantasy Award winner for best collection. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-48.

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London, Toronto, Sydney, New York: Granada, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First combined and first hardcover edition. Adventures of Dorian Hawkmoon, this collects the last three books of the series. Collects Count Brass (1973), The Champion of...

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Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Julian S. Krupa, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR104. Book 4 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage...

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New York: E.P. Dutton, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Kate Fansler mystery.

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New York: Pantheon Books, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's continuation of his family's Holocaust story, told in graphic novel form. "Like its predecessor, "Maus: A Survivor's Tale II. And Here My...

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NY: Short Stories, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Stories by Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Q. Patrick, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth and others.

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixteen stories. Includes "Jeffty is Five," Nebula Award winner, 1977 and Hugo Award winner, 1978 for best short story. The story also won the 1999...

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New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition and first paperback edition. Ace double D-47. Paperback original of the Barry novel. The Powell is a reprint, originally published as SHARK RIVER...

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Merriam, KS: House of Fantasy, 1977. Large folio, publisher's "verification of authenticity" leaf, poem "Yag-Kosha, The Elephant God" - a single leaf, eight plates (including title plate), enclosed in stiff color illustrated covers and illustrated...

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New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, illustration by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Post nuclear holocaust story of mutant telepaths. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-107.

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New York: Signet, 1967. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The first Ed Noon detective novel.

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New York: William Morrow And Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-246 [247-248: blank], original light green cloth, spine stamped in black and red, top edge stained red. First edition. The author's eighth mystery novel...

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, cover by Modest Stein, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized pulp magazine. "Cargo Unknown." "Doc Savage was intended to be an adventure character, but under Lester...

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San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Bloch, this is copy number 1. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The...

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New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1945. Octavo, single issue, cover by Pete Kuhloff, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Robert Bloch "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade," Ray Bradbury, August Derleth, Anthony Boucher and others.

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London: Faber and Faber, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories including "The Marching Morons," "The Little Black Bag," "The Silly Season," "Gomez," and "With These Hands."

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Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition, trade issue, first binding. Science fiction novel with mystery elements; who is destroying moon rockets?

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London: Robert Hale, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First British and first hardcover edition. Story collection.

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London: Michael Joseph, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Francis on the front free endpaper. An Edgar award nominee. A Sid Halley novel. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery...

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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Mosley. Author's second novel featuring Easy Rawlins.

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[London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. The fourth book in the "Xeelee" sequence.

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New York: Love Romances, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Asleep in Amageddon" by Ray Bradbury. Fiction by Leigh Brackett, Ray Cummings and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a....

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New York: Greenberg: Publisher, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second novel.

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New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Novel by Max Brand. A short lived magazine that only saw nine issues published.

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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. 2058 copies printed. Text offset from that of the 1933 Ernest Benn edition. The author's last novel. "... a shocker written on assignment, tells of...

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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by McGivern on the front free end paper. Mystery and suspense novel involving teenagers in the suburbs.

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New York: Ace Books, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller involving genetic research and viruses and the ability to genetically program individuals. "...an impressive presentation of the complex perils that inevitably accompany in-depth virological research...

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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...

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Toronto: Fictioneers, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Saunders, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, Canadian issue, issued simultaneously with the U. S. edition with identical story content, editorial control in New York. Includes "Outcast of...

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