• THE COSMIC PUPPETS.

    THE COSMIC PUPPETS.

    [London]: Severn House, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "The characteristic Dick virtues are present: the tight, nervous, compelling prose style, the sharp characterization, the startling real dialogue, the meticulous development of the unsettling situation...

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  • PAVANE.

    PAVANE.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. This edition adds "The White Boat" which is not included in the U.K. edition. "Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress...

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  • AMAZING STORIES. September, 1934.

    AMAZING STORIES. September, 1934.

    Chicago: Teck Publications, Inc. September, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include stories by Neil R. Jones and Clark Ashton Smith.

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  • SATELLITE E ONE.

    SATELLITE E ONE.

    New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel of space travel.

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  • INDIGO SLAM.

    INDIGO SLAM.

    New York: Hyperion, [1997]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An Elvis Cole novel. Signed by the author on the title page.

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  • SCHISMATRIX.

    SCHISMATRIX.

    New York: Arbor House, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Sterling on the title page. "This remarkable inventive book is an exploration of various "post-human" cultures living, by no means harmoniously, in artificial space...

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  • ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc. March, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature story is "Vampires of Space" by Sewell Wright. Also has a Hawk Carse story by...

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  • IN MEMORIAM: CLARK ASHTON SMITH.

    IN MEMORIAM: CLARK ASHTON SMITH.

    Baltimore: "Anthem" Jack L. Chalker & Associates, 1963. Large octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-97 [98: colophon] [note: leaf preceding title leaf is a blank], mimeographed from typewritten copy, printed wrappers, stapled. First edition. Colophon states...

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  • THE SENTRIES.

    THE SENTRIES.

    New York: Simon and Schuster, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Political suspense thriller.

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  • THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1938-1971. Introduction by James Blaylock.

    THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K....

    Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, [1996]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by introducer James P. Blaylock. Chronologically Volume 1 in the series of six books.

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  • THRILLING WONDER STORIES.

    THRILLING WONDER STORIES.

    New York: Better Publications, Inc. 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Eando Binder, Henry Kuttner, Alfred Bester and others.

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  • WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG.

    WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG.

    New York, Evanston... Harper & Row, Publishers, [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner of 1977 Hugo award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-497. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2469-73.

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  • GIANT.

    GIANT.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, & Company, Inc. 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel of Texas. Filmed in 1956 by director George Stevens with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean.

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  • FOOTFALL.

    FOOTFALL.

    New York: A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-809.

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  • BUG JACK BARRON.

    BUG JACK BARRON.

    New York: Walker and Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 1969 Nebula award and 1970 Hugo award nominee for best novel. "...remains significant as an early examination of the growing media and their manipulators." -Anatomy...

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  • PHANTOM PERFUMES AND OTHER SHADES: MEMORIES OF GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE. Introduction by Mike Ashley.

    PHANTOM PERFUMES AND OTHER SHADES: MEMORIES...

    Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collection of seventeen supernatural stories from the pulp, GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE (1926-1931). Foreword by Hugh Cave, checklist and index to the...

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  • ROBERT E. HOWARD'S COMPLETE CONAN OF CIMMERIA: VOLUME TWO (1934).

    ROBERT E. HOWARD'S COMPLETE CONAN OF...

    [London]: Wandering Star:, [2003]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1950 numbered copies with frontispiece signed by artist Gary Gianni. The 1934 Conan stories along with the novel "The Hour of the Dragon" with extra material and notes.

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  • TRIPLE DETECTIVE.

    TRIPLE DETECTIVE.

    Kokomo, IN: Best Publications, Inc. 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Gerald Kersh, Hugh Pentecost, Herbert Brean and others. The main stories are reprinted from previous slick magazine publications. Cook, Mystery...

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  • ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. July, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 4 of The Legion of Space by Jack Williamson.

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  • THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF.

    THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF...

    Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Review slip laid in. The author's first mystery which introduces Inspector Richard Jury. "Her plots are exceedingly convoluted and clever, with adroitly placed red...

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  • THE DEADLY DUO.

    THE DEADLY DUO.

    New York: Dell, 1959. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.

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  • FRENCH FOR MURDER.

    FRENCH FOR MURDER.

    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.

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  • WEIRD TALES.

    WEIRD TALES.

    Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Margaret Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Williamson and others. Also includes "Colonel Markesan" by August Derleth...

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  • THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.

    THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION.

    New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2007]. Octavo, boards. First edition. In an alternate history novel in which Jews persecuted by the Nazis have a refugee settlement in Alaska. Detective Meyer Landsman investigates murder in the Federal District...

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  • WHO!

    WHO!

    London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. 1962. Octavo, boards. First edition. "An American scientist is badly injured in an explosion, then "repaired" by Soviet doctors and returned to the USA. The problem is that he is now...

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  • RAPTURE.

    RAPTURE.

    New York: Atheneum, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Review slip and promotional flyer laid in. Horror novel of obsession.

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  • SPHERE.

    SPHERE.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Review slip laid in. A space ship is discovered on the base of the ocean floor. Filmed in 1998, directed by Barry Levinson...

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  • CRACK-SHOT WESTERN.

    CRACK-SHOT WESTERN.

    New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Novel by Max Brand. A short lived magazine that only saw nine issues published.

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  • THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON.

    THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON.

    New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition of this text. First of three volumes comprising "The Authorized Edition" of Conan edited and foreword by Karl Edward Wagner. Follows the text...

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  • THE RED SCARF.

    THE RED SCARF.

    New York: Mystery House, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Gil Brewer was on the major writers in the Gold Medal line of paperback originals. This is one of two books published in hardcover by Brewer...

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  • ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    ASTOUNDING STORIES.

    New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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                                   April 6-8, 2018

Lloyd Currey and I are exhibiting at the Windy City Pulp
& Paper Convention in Lombard, IL. Pulps, books, art, and
ephemera.