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New York: Viking, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The sixth volume in the Richard Sharpe series.

Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Ellery Queen, Francis Beeding, Stuart Palmer, and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi-xiv [1-2] 3-237 [238: limitation statement], cloth. First edition. 4991 copies printed. Very personal memoir by a close friend and member of the original...

New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., [1944]. Small octavo (oblong), pictorial wrappers. Armed Services Edition and first paperback edition. ASE L-4. Story collection. The Armed Services Editions was a significant historical project between...

Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition, first printing (370 copies). Text offset from that of the 1966 Ace Books edition. New introduction by Ormond Seavey. An expansion of the novella...

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects the seventeen stories published in the 1988 Equation paperback original with the addition of eight previously uncollected Burrage stories, with...

New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., [1986]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. A major collection by one of SF's finest writer of short fiction, collecting two novellas and twenty-five stories. Includes "Good News from the...

London, New York, Sydney and Toronto: White Lion Publishers Limited, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First British and First hardcover edition. First published as a paperback original in the U.S. After a war between the United States...

New York, Toronto... Doubleday, [1994]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed. Edgar award for best novel 1994.

Atlanta: Turner Publishing, [1992]. Octavo, illustrations by Anita Kunz, pictorial boards. First separate edition. Collects the one story.

London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of vintage crime fiction, John Collier, Dennis Wheatley, Dorothy Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

New York: Avon Novels, Inc., 1951-1952. Octavo, three issues, pictorial wrappers. First edition. All published. Short lived digest which relied mainly on reprints from older magazines which was unable to compete with Galaxy and F....

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Partially original anthology of fifteen stories. Includes the first hardcover appearances of "The Monkey" by Stephen King, "The Champion" by Richard Laymon, & "Makeup"...

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Isaac Asimov (an early Robot story, "Reason"), A.E. van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon, L....

Dunellen, N. J. Teck Publishing Corporation, 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "Seeds of Life" by John Taine. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and...

New York: Tor, 2014. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first U.S. edition. First of the Dune prequels. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Kenneth Fagg, cloth. First edition. Printed signed inscription from Lowndes to a Sherlockian friend, also laid in is a Christmas card from Lowndes...

[MGM, 1968]. Five pages (rectos only) with information on the upcoming film 2001 accompanied by 86 8 x 10 glossy black and white silver gelatin photographs. The vast majority printed to resemble wide screen format...

Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing. 352 copies printed. Signed by Dick on the title page. The author's first book. Text offset from that of the 1955 Ace edition...

[New York]: Bluejay Books Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven stories including "Trinity," winner of the 1985 Nebula award.

Kokomo, IN: Recreational Reading, Inc., an affiliate of Popular Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Peter Stevens, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first issue which reprints 'Creep, Shadow!" by Merritt. [Reference: Tymm and...

Minneapolis, MN: Fedogan & Bremer, 1994. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Bloch and artist Jon Arfstrom. This is copy 67. Collects thirty-nine stories, thirty-six first published between 1935 and...

Chicago: Black Horse Press, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, printed wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of two published. Features stories by Frank Kane (Johnny Liddell), Paul Marcus and Edward Ronns (pseudonym for Edward Aarons). Another...

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1994], Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of ten stories, all first published in Asimov's SF magazine, several involve time travel.

New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Raymond Pease, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Carroll John Daly (Satan Hall), Frank Gruber, Steve Fisher, Donald Wandrei and others. [Reference: Cook...

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. Collects three novels: ONE-MAN SHOW (1952), A COMEDY OF TERRORS (1940) and THE SECRET VANGUARD (1940).

New York: Love Romances, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the classic story "Mars Is Heaven" by Ray Bradbury, part of THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. Also stories by James...

London, New York, Sydney and Toronto: White Lion Publishers Limited, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects eleven stories, some criminous. [Reference: Hubin pp. 831-835].

Not dated, but circa 1947. Signed by Sturgeon on the first page. The typescript is incomplete; it ends about three-fourths of the way through the story after the sentence "(She couldn't hear the blood in...

New York: Gold Medal Books/Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #189. Paperback original. War hero and ex-pilot ends up on the short end of life, living in Philadelphia, involved...

[New York]: A Midwood Book, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood F309. Paperback original.

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Nero Wolfe mystery novel. "Pure detection (fleshed, of course, with humor and characterization) remains the trademark of Rex Stout. Prisoner's Base is a bit...

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Don Wilcox, Rog Phillips, John Jakes and others. Robot cover. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and...

New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, [1982]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A continuation of THE STAR DIARIES (1976). Several of Ijon Tichy's adventures involve machines: a galactic society of "Phools" governed by...

Annapolis, MD: The Naval Institute Press, [1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed on the half title page; "First Edition / Tom Clancy." The author's first novel. The first of the Jack Ryan adventures. Made into...

[Lakewood, CO]: Centipede Press, [2017, i.e. 2018]. Large octavo (8 x 11.5"), illustrations, cloth with photographic inset to front board. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by John Pelan, Piotr Jablonksi and Gwabryel...