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New York: Poseidon Press, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-23. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-18.

[New York: Spike / Avon Books, Inc., 1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. This is the novel without the Vess illustrations. Basis for the 2007 film with Claire Danes and Charlie Cox.

New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue. "Days of Creation" by Brett Sterling (pseudonym). Also includes a Fredric Brown short story, "Nothing Sirius."...

Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Caney, pictorial wrappers. Britain's first adult oriented science fiction magazine, at first publishing solely original material from British authors and reprints...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Boris Dolgov, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Theodore Sturgeon, Carl Jacobi, Stephen Grendon (August Derleth) and others.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Altman on the title page. Suspense/thriller novel.

[Dearborn Heights, MI, The Misfit Press, 1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First published separate edition. One of five hundred numbered copies. Chapbook of Sturgeon's classic story, first published in WITHOUT SORCERY (1948). A small number of...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue cover by Edd Cartier, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Death's Deputy" by L. Ron Hubbard. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird...

New York: Albing Publications, 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Hannes Bok, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes four stories by Cyril M. Kornbluth, under his "S. D. Gottesman," "Cecil Corwin, "Kenneth Falconer" and "Walter C....

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-298 [299--310: ads] [311-312: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Heins OT-2. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset...

San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-300 [301-304: blank] [note: penultimate leaf is a blank; final leaf excised; fly leaf precedes title leaf], original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped...

[Bath]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, Tim Powers (after word), K.W. Jeter (after word) and Ferret (illustrator). Barron (ed.): Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-56...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The ninth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in India during the time of...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first cover painting for ASTOUNDING by Hubert Rogers, the artist linked to the Golden...

New York: Arbor House, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The fifth Bernie Rhodenbarr novel.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Mongo mystery novel.

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Filmed twice, first as the film noir No Man of Her Own (1950) starring Barbara Stanwyck and again in France as J'ai...

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of supernatural tales. Reprint of the 1947 Edward Arnold edition with new "introduction" by Reg Meuross. Ashley, Who's Who in...

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The author's first novel, featuring his characters McCorkle (Mac) and Padillo. An international espionage novel. "The scenes that take place during...

Los Angeles: Scream /Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition.

New York: Signet/New American Library, 1969. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collect four short pieces, "Red Wind," "Trouble is My Business," "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," "The Pencil," and two novels THE LITTLE SISTER and THE LONG GOODBYE. Two...

Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This title Detective Fiction is the final incarnation of Detective Fiction Weekly for the final six issues, which this is the first...

Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. With "The King of Thieves" a Mignus Ridolph story by Jack Vance. Also includes L. Ron Hubbard writing as...

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-253 [254-256: blank], original black cloth, spine stamped in gold, fore-edge uncut. First edition. The second of three mystery novels using this pseudonym...

New York: Simon and Schuster, [1956]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "A rapidly mutating virus wipes out all of Earth's grasses, including grain crops." -Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-42. Published in the U.K. as...

New York: Avon Detective-Mysteries, Inc., 1946. Small octavo, single issue, printed wrappers. Digest sized magazine. This issue includes "They Can Only Hang You Once," a Sam Spade story by Dashiell Hammett and "Rats in the...

London: Dennis Dobson, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. The second volume in the "Demon Princes" series. Kirth Gersen's revenge continues. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1160. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of...

New York: Love Romances, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "A Planet Named Joe" by S. A. Lombino, an early published story by the author who would change his...

Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Jon Jakes, Neil R. Jones, Poul Anderson and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp...

New York: Glen-Kel Publishing Co., Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Gross, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature story "The Isle of Retribution" by Edison Marshall. Also includes "The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill" by Robert...

[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR129. Book 4 in the DR. DEATH paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. Story collection. Tymm...

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 13 of the 33 prize winning stories. Authors include John Dickson Carr, Craig Rice & Stuart...

[New York: Avon Book Company, 1942]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. The second Nero Wolfe mystery novel. Unumbered, but it is Avon #20.

New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. The eighth Amber novel. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-276.

Philadelphia & New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of stories set in the same universe.