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New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Westlake on the title page. A Dortmunder novel.

New York: E.P. Dutton, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof in blue wrappers.

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Margaret Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Dorothy Quick, Robert Bloch, G. G. Pendarves, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman and...

London: Hamish Hamilton, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Collects four stories which first appeared in THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER; "The Smart- Aleck Kill," "Pick Up on Noon Street," "Nevada Gas," and "Spanish Blood."...

Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Eric Frank Russell, Mack Reynolds and Fredric Brown, and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction...

New York and Scarborough, Ont. A Plume Book / New American Library, [1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. Signed on the title page by Tim Underwood.

[Glendale, California: Roy A. Squires, 1964.]. Octavo, printed wrappers, sewn. First edition. Limited to 291 copies. This copy is signed by Bradbury on the colophon page (most copies were not signed). [Note: Squires bibliography notes...

New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Leigh Brackett story. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology...

New York: The Dial Press/James Wade, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Contact with aliens at first brings new opportunities, but then come the Invaders, determined to take over the solar system and expel humankind. What...

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1950. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-276 [277-280: blank], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First edition. Presentation copy warmly inscribed and signed by Kuttner as "Hank ("Lewis...

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-319 [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John and twelve full-page St. John illustrations in the text, original orange cloth...

Royal Oak, Michigan: Haffner Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixteen stories, published between Fall 1932 and December 1935, and two short nonfiction pieces, one a previously unpublished preface to "Invaders of the Ice...

New York: HarperPrism, 1995. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

[London]: Viking, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel and first to feature Bernie Gunther. Hard boiled novel set in Nazi Germany in 1936. [Reference: Hubin, p. 466].

New York: Tor, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Sanderson on the title page. Fantasy novel, the third book in Mistborn series.

New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, cover by Clark Hulings, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #402. Paperback original. The first mystery by this author.

New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 199. Crime novel. Novelization of the film screenplay by Robert Alan Authur (adapted from his television drama "A Man is Ten Feet...

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Features part four of the serial "The Pirates of Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. [Reference: Heins...

New York: Ideal Distributing Company, n.d., [1947]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Black Knight 30. Mystery novel.

London: Kinnell, 1989. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition.

New York: The Dial Press, 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. This copy has a full page presentation inscription signed by Ludlum to fellow author Donald Westlake (and his wife Abby). Scarce signed by Ludlum...

New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Cholwell's Chickens" a sequel to "Abercrombie Station" by Jack Vance. Also fiction by Edmond Hamilton, Alan E....

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First book publication of "The Lion of Comarre." "The Lion of Comarre" is a hackwork variation on the land of the lotus-eaters .....

Dayton, OH: The McCall Company, 1931-32. Octavo, six issues, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Complete six part serial "The Triumph of Tarzan," later published in book form as TARZAN TRIUMPHANT. The first issue has...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2040 copies printed. Collects fourteen stories and a poem. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 229].

New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ace F-159. This edition prints original magazine serials of the last parts of THE MOON MAID which were...

New York: Pyramid Books, [1976]. Octavo, paperback. First edition. Pyramid M3798. Includes a new introduction and collects sixteen stories. From the original hardcover edition, nine stories have been dropped and three new to this collection...

New York: Pyramid Books, [1965]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-1139. Paperback original. Signed by Bloch on the inside front cover. Collects ten stories of terror, mystery and suspense.

[New York]: Orbit, [2013]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, first printing. Trade paperback original. The author's first book and first in the "Imperial Radch" series, a vast and complex interstellar adventure. This book is a....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Octavo, [1-8] 1-254 [255-256: blank], original light tan cloth, front and spine stamped in blue. First edition. A Colonel Primrose mystery novel set in Alexandria, VA. [Reference: Hubin, p....

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-184 [185] [186: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], six inserted plates, original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in...

Stamford, CT: Wings Publishing Co., Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. First publication of THE CRUCTARS ARE COMING! by Paul Payne who was one of the editors of...

[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered and signed copies. Signed by Blaylock, Keith Roberts (introduction), and Ferret (artist). 1986 Philip K. Dick award winner. [Reference: Anatomy of...

Philadelphia, Toronto: John C. Winston, [1954]. Octavo, cover illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. A prominent scientist believes that the Terraluna Corporation's deep core mining operation may break up the Moon and fragments from...

London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Among the handful of most influential novels published in the twentieth century. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-450; (1981) 3-580; (1987) 3-302; (1995) 3-140; and (2004)...

New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1933. Octavo, single issue, cover by Don Hewitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Hal Dunning (ghost written by Frederick C. Davis), James Clarke, C.S. Montanye and others.