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New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The twelfth Nero Wolfe mystery. "Archie is the center of a seraglio of designing creatures, who want to bribe or seduce him as he helps...

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-282, original light brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. One of a number of later...

New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Magic Moon" by Brett Sterling (pseudonym). Also includes a Henry Kuttner short story. The only hero pulp magazine...

[London]: The Women's Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed and dated (April 13, 1990) by Emshwiller on the title page (Locus lists publication date as April, 1990). Feminist science fiction and fantasy. Collects...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-218 [219-220: blank], original red cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black, top edge stained red. First edition. The novel is "...a brutal picture of...

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of 25 stories selected by Clarke.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The third Adam Dalgliesh novel.

New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects sixty-seven stories spanning a thirty year period representing most if not all the major figures active at this time. Includes a....

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by A.E. van Vogt, Raymond F. Jones, Lewis Padgett, Fredric Brown, Eric Frank Russell. Tymm...

New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1944. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes a "Frame for Murder" by Henry Kuttner.

New York: Pyramid Books, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid Books F886. Future war novel.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of these five stories in a hardcover book. The stories appeared earlier (with five others) in FIVE MURDERERS (1944) and...

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first mystery novel. Signed by the author in the title page.

New York: Ballantine Books, n.d., [1963]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Ballantine F 724. First published in hardcover using the Lewis Padgett pseudonym.

New York: Doubleday, 1988. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance reader's copy of the first edition.

Kansas City, MO: Ursus Imprints / Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fourteen stories written in collaboration with Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Jack C. Haldeman II, and Susan Casper. Includes...

New York: Dell Published Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10 cent Book #33. Paperback original. This story was first published in Mystery Book Magazine, Summer, 1950...

New York: William Morrow, 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's second book.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Malafrena asks something that cannot have occurred to very many of us: what it might have been like to live in a small...

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1958. Octavo, jacket art by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Poetry.

London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-211 [212: blank] + 20-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1926" at rear, original burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First...

[London]: Macmillan, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Hamilton on the title page. "This hefty novel of interstellar war and alien contact in the 25th century, a sort of Starship Troopers as if written...

New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Captain S.P. Meek, Harl Vincent and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp...

San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1982. Octavo, jacket art by the Dillons, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Straub and dust jacket artists Leo and Diane Dillon. "Two evils, one...

New York: Trojan Publishing Corporation, 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. In the beginning this was not really a detective magazine but a hero-adventure magazine featuring Jim Anthony of...

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1998]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Sequel to Anno Dracula and The Bloody Red Baron.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects thirty-eight stories. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-991.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Wrappers. First edition. Text of the screenplay from Blood Simple, the brothers first feature film.

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "In a theocratic future society, ruled by totalitarian means, rebel scientists are know as "witches." The hero is a member of the Church hierarchy who...

Boston: Arena Publishing Co., 1894. Tall octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-x [11] 12-129 [130-132: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], flyleaf at front, original decorated white cloth, front panel stamped in silver, white endpapers with...

Novato, CA and Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Copy number 1 of one of 250 numbered copies signed by the editor, Sutin, on the limitation page. First publication of portions of Dick's...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Matt Fox, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by H. Russell Wakefield, Robert Bloch, Eric Frank Russell and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy...

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Classic St. John dinosaur cover. Fiction by Arthur Petticolas (pseudonym?), Rog Phillips writing as "Peter Worth," and...

Mount Morris, IL: Stellar Publications Corporation, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes fiction by Otfrid von Hanstein, "Between Earth and Moon" a translation of...

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1921. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-414 [415-417: ads] [418-422: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], five plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, five plates with illustrations by...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1996]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance copy. This is the Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof of the first novel in the His Dark Materials trilogy, first published in the U.K. as His...