HARD AGROUND.
Hall, James W.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1993. Wrappers. First edition. Uncorrected proof.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1993. Wrappers. First edition. Uncorrected proof.
New York, Chicago: Congdon & Weed, Inc., [1986]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "After the holocaust and the extinction of all traditional livestock, a young boy grows up in rural innocence, helping his father herd the...
New York: Street and Smith's Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Donald Wandrei (Cyrus North), Erle Stanley Gardner, Baxter Redman and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage...
[Encino: Black Coat Press, 2005]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Modern translation of the classic work first published in the mid 19th Century in France. Excellent introductory material by Stableford. " Vampire tale strongly influenced...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2011. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 350 numbered copies signed by Reynolds. Novella. Involves first contact.
[New York]: A Signet Book / Published by the New American Library, [1960]. Small octavo, cover by Paul Lehr, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Signet S1769.
New York: St. Martin's, 1979. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
New York: Gnome Press, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen short stories. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 228].
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, Inc., [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven of the twenty stories published by Clifton with memoir by Judith Merril and afterword...
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects eighteen stories by Cyril Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, and others. Includes the classic story "To Serve Man" by Damon Knight...
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Trade issue.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1975. Octavo, illustrations by David Ireland, cloth. First edition. An interplanetary romantic adventure novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs tradition, published posthumously as a three-part serial in WEIRD TALES...
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: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 55. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del...
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. [Reference...
Dover, DE: D. M. Publishing Co., Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Rene Barad and Gerard Lamour, both pseudonyms for Robert Leslie Bellem. Several other stories are the only...
Springfield, MA: Magazine Publishers, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael de Soto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Steve Fisher, Alexis Rossoff, Cleve Adams, Thomas Walsh and others. Short lived title that lasted...
San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Books, 2003. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Collects the novel, THE BOATS OF THE "GLEN CARRIG," and the twenty-three stories comprising his series sea fiction: The Sargasso Sea stories...
London: Sisley's Ltd., n.d., [1907]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-278 [279] [280: blank], original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in orange and black, spine panel stamped in black, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. A sensational...
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1944. Octavo, jacket illustration by Charles Frank Wakefield, cloth. First edition. 1559 copies printed. The sixth Arkham House book. Whitehead's posthumously published first collection of weird fiction, fourteen stories including...
New York: The Macaulay Company, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-255 [256: blank], original reddish-orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Private investigator gets involved in the murder of a prominent Atlantic City...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Brief signed inscription by Haldeman to "Dan" on title page. 1977 Hugo nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-364. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III...
New York: Paperback Library, [1969]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback Library 64-004. Paperback original. First in a series, Hollywood troubleshooter Casey Grant. [Reference: Hubin, p. 681].
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Life on the chain gang.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited by Richard Dalby. Collection of eighteen of Marsh's supernatural tales.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, cover by Murphy, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1990]. Octavo, 3 volumes, full leather, a.e.g. First editions. A three volume retrospective collection of fiction by Heinlein, Leinster, Lovecraft, Hamilton, Schachner, Stuart (J. W. Campbell), de Camp, van Vogt...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Gilmore, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 3 of "Gray Lensman" and "Discord in Scarlet" by A.E. van Vogt - a....
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1974]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1950. Octavo, three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, printed paper label affixed to spine panel. First edition. Limited to 400 copies of which this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Keller...
New York: Ballantine Books, [1978]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Includes a two page map of Pern and a 17 page "Dragondex", a guide to peoples and terms. The third book in the "Pern"...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 1 of "Methuselah's Children" by Robert A. Heinlein and Alfred Bester's first published...
[Mountain Ash, Wales]: Sarob Press, 2001. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. One of 250 copies (not numbered). Reprints Can Such Things Be? or The Weird of the Beresfords, first published 1889, a Victorian weird thriller...
New York: Viking, [1985]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The sixth volume in the Richard Sharpe series.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. 87th Precinct.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1953]. Octavo, illustrated by Clifford Geary, cloth. First edition. A Heinlein juvenile novel. "Striking are the detailed, convincing picture of spaceship operational procedures and the suspense whenever the ship must...
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