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New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Trade paperback issue (simultaneous with the hardcover). Twenty-eight stories with fiction by Walter John Williams, Brian Stableford, Connie Willis, Robert Silverberg...

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New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc. 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include: "The Bronze Door" by Raymond Chandler, in which a man purchases a 'magic door' which when things go...

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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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New York: DAW Books, Inc. [1995]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW No. 983. Original anthology.

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Sauk City: Arkham House, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second story collection from Arkham House, fourteen stories culled mostly from Weird Tales magazine. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #894. Tymn (ed): Horror Literature 4-123.

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1895]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-250 [251: ads] [252: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by A. Hencke, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped...

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New York: Bantam Books, [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 1251. Collects seven stories.

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New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation, n.d. [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1] 2-24, printed self wrappers, stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 17. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 13474.

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[London]: Macdonald, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Signed by the Etchison on the title page. Novel of a death cult which indoctrinates disaffected teenagers. "A moving and profoundly disquieting novel whose...

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New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-5 [6] 7 [8] 9 [10] 11-311 [312: blank] [313-316: ads] [317-320: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original olive-green cloth, front...

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1963]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Study of the mutiny of the Royal Navy frigate Hermione in 1797 and it's aftermath.

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London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Correct first edition, first issue, of this novel, published January, 1931; the American edition was not published until April of 1931. A Haycraft-Queen...

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Birmingham, England: Drunken Dragon Press, 1990. Octavo, imitation leather. First hardcover edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by McDonald. The author's first novel. Winner of the 1989 Locus award for best first novel. Arthur...

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Small octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Van Vogt; "--- /All Best Wishes /A.E. van Vogt." Fix-up novel stitched together from magazine stories, which includes his first story...

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Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent: R. & L. Locker, [1947]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-159 [160]. original green cloth, spine stamped in dark blue. First British edition. Adventure novel set in the Brazilian jungle, mysterious tribe wants to use...

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NY: Short Stories, Inc. 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Virgil Finlay, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest magazine. Stories by Kirk Shaw, Robert E. Howard, Kirk Washburn (a vampire novelette) and others. The final issue...

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Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2482 copies printed. Collection of fourteen stories and a memoir by E. Hoffmann Price. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1488. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature...

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Leonard on the title page above his printed name "Elmore Dutch Leonard" and below his name he has printed the last line from the...

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New York: The Viking Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.

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Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publications, Inc. 1929. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Jules Verne reprint, conclusion. David H. Keller.

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New York: Ace Books, Inc. [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace #D-472. Paperback original. Hardboiled mystery.

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Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Margaret Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Pigeons from Hell" by Robert E. Howard (posthumous). Also fiction by Edmond Hamilton, Henry Kuttner, Jack...

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West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Trade edition. Signed inscription by Card. Five stories about life on the fringe in America's future, when society has collapsed under the weight of war...

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[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74.

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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by P.A. Hutchison (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. "A provocative book, especially in its portrait of adults who fail to discern the maturity of young people."...

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 2 of "The Cosmic Engineers" by Clifford Simak. The "Cloak of Aesir" by Don A. Stuart.

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New York: Ace Books, Inc. [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books D-353. Collects ten stories by Robert Bloch, H. P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, and others.

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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1947]. Octavo, illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., boards. First edition. Mystery novel.

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[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc, [1983]. Octavo, illustrations by Stephen Fabian, cloth. First edition. Werewolf novel. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-102.

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Chicago: Sun Publications, January, 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Gates of Empire" by Robert E. Howard.

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[Nashville: SoulWave Publishers, Inc. 1997]. Octavo, cloth. First trade hardcover edition. One of 200 signed and numbered copies. Winner of the Nebula award for best novel, 1995 (first published as a paperback original). The book...

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Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Wilhelm on the title page. Author's first book. Text offset from the Berkeley paperback edition, new introduction by Susan Wood.

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Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1954]. cover illustration by Alex Schomburg, First edition. Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction.

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[New York]: Eos an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2005]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to ILIUM (2003).

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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4288 copies printed. Although it bears the same title, this book is not a reprint of the 1880 British three-decker. This collection was compiled by...

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Garden City: Published for The Crime Club Doubleday & Co., Inc. [1948]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-190 [191-192: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original burgundy boards, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First...

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