• INTENSITY.

    INTENSITY.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Advance reader's copy with publisher slip laid in.

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  • MIDNIGHT SUN.

    MIDNIGHT SUN.

    [Columbus, OH: Gary Hoppenstand, 1975]. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Signed inscription by Wagner on the first page, also signed inscription by artist George Chastain, and signed inscription by author David Drake at the...

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  • DARK TIDES.

    DARK TIDES.

    London: Dennis Dobson, [1962]. Octavo, First edition. Collects twelve stories.

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  • THROUGH THE DARK CURTAIN.

    THROUGH THE DARK CURTAIN.

    London: Howard Baker, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Second novel in "The Guardians" series, preceded by Dark Ways to Death. Occult adventure series, The Guardians battle ancient evil. "The stories are...

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  • A COOL BREEZE ON THE UNDERGROUND.

    A COOL BREEZE ON THE UNDERGROUND.

    New York: St. Martin's Press, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first book. The first Neal Carey book. Nominated for an Edgar award for best first novel.

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  • WEIRD TALES.

    WEIRD TALES.

    Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Authors include Clark Ashton Smith, Hugh B. Cave, Seabury Quinn, Frank Belknap Long.

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  • AMAZING STORIES.

    AMAZING STORIES.

    Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. McCauley, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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  • BLACK MASK.

    BLACK MASK.

    New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel, John Lawrence, Roger Torrey and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.

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  • A CHECKLIST OF SCIENCE-FICTION ANTHOLOGIES.

    A CHECKLIST OF SCIENCE-FICTION ANTHOLOGIES.

    New York: Arno Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1964 Cole edition. The pioneer checklist of short fiction published in science fiction anthologies. Indexes approximately 260 English-language fantasy and...

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  • THE HOUSE OF THUNDER.

    THE HOUSE OF THUNDER.

    New York: Pocket Books, [1982]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The third Leigh Nichols book.

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  • BATTLE ON MERCURY.

    BATTLE ON MERCURY.

    Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. Octavo, cover illustration by Kenneth Fagg, cloth. 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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  • IN THE STONE HOUSE.

    IN THE STONE HOUSE.

    [Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-four stories.

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  • TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND GRAMARYE.

    TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND...

    London: Ghost Story Press, [1993]. Octavo, fifteen illustrations by E. Joyce Shillington Scales, pictorial boards. Second edition, enlarged. One of 300 numbered copies. The first volume published by the press. Reprint of this classic collection...

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  • DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

    DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

    New York: The Red Star News, Co., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Fred MacIsaac, Hugh B. Cave, Philip Ketchum, Roger Torrey and others. "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong...

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  • ANTI-ICE.

    ANTI-ICE.

    [London]: HarperCollins Publishers, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's third novel.

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  • PASSING STRANGE.

    PASSING STRANGE.

    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery novel with a medical theme featuring his detective Daniel Webster, introduced in LAZARUS No. 7. Hubin, p. 714.

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  • THIS IS MURDER, MR. HERBERT: AND OTHER STORIES.

    THIS IS MURDER, MR. HERBERT: AND...

    New York: Avon Publishing Company, Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's first book. Collection of four hard boiled stories. A just about fine copy, mild rubbing to corners,spine edge.

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  • BRADBURY: AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE, A JOURNEY TO A FAR METAPHOR.

    BRADBURY: AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE, A JOURNEY...

    Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [2004]. Large octavo, imitation leather. First limited edition. Number 39 of an unknown number (350?) of limited editions signed by Bradbury and Weist. Traces the author's career...

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  • INTENSITY.

    INTENSITY.

    London: Headline, 1995. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. This edition was released in October of 1995, some months prior to the U.S. edition.

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  • WATER HAZARD.

    WATER HAZARD.

    [New York]: Delacorte Press, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Signed inscription by Borg to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Psychological thiller. "Sexual debauchery and twisted identities reign in an intricately descriptive...

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  • OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.

    OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS.

    [Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 2005. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Twelve short stories and novelettes and a complete novel, all previously uncollected, all first published in pulp magazines from the 1940s.

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  • COLONEL MARKESAN AND LESS PLEASANT PEOPLE.

    COLONEL MARKESAN AND LESS PLEASANT PEOPLE.

    Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2405 copies printed. Collects seventeen stories first published in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, and Strange Stories between 1930 and 1947, mostly during the period...

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  • DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.

    DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.

    Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover by Malvin Singer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel, Frederick C. Davis and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.

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  • GALACTIC EFFECTUATOR.

    GALACTIC EFFECTUATOR.

    San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood / Miller, 1980 [i.e. 1982]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This edition bound in February 1982 for the library market. Collects "The Dogtown Tourist Agency" and "Freitzke's Turn," two detective...

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  • VALEDICTION.

    VALEDICTION.

    New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Spenser novel.

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  • THE SMOKING LAND.

    THE SMOKING LAND.

    Santa Barbara, Capra Press, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. First published in Argosy magazine in six parts starting May 29, 1937 using the pseudonym George Challis. A science fiction-romantic adventure novel...

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  • FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.

    FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.

    New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The novel won the 1966 Nebula award; the earlier short story won the 1960 Hugo award. Filmed twice, the first as "Charly" in...

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  • A MATTER OF FACT.

    A MATTER OF FACT.

    New York: William Morrow & Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Detectives arrest suspect and he is convicted of murder, with tainted evidence. Rookie detective involved needs to set the record straight.

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  • THRILLING ADVENTURES.

    THRILLING ADVENTURES.

    New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This issue has a Louis L'Amour gangster story "Pirates of the Sky." The first appearance of Turk Madden.

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  • AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by Jack Adrian.

    AYLMER VANCE: GHOST SEER. Introduction by...

    Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first volume in a series from Ash Tree (Occult Detectives Library). Collects eight occult detective stories, all first published in...

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  • THE MAN WHO MET HIMSELF AND OTHER STORIES.

    THE MAN WHO MET HIMSELF AND...

    London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town: John Long Limited, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen stories; horror, fantasy and crime fiction.

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