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[London]: Macmillan, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Hamilton. Modern space opera on an epic scale. Book two of "The Night's Dawn Trilogy." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-489.

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London: Robert Hale & Company, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. The 14th Travis McGee novel.

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Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by John Howitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.

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New York: Stellar Publishing Co. n.d. [1930]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Science Fiction Classics No. 1. Paperback (trade size) original. Illustrated front cover. This was a Gernsback publication.

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New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-284, jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., original light gray cloth, spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut. First edition. Private eye novel set in Arizona...

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Toronto: The American News Company, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Matt Fox, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue. Fiction by Bradbury, Derleth, Grubb and others.

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

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Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner's of the magazines annual short story contest. Includes fiction by Stanley Ellin, Charlotte Armstrong, Eleazar Lipsky and the Edgar nominated "Invitation to an...

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Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1939. Large octavo, pp. [ivi] vii [viii-x] xii-xiv [1-2] 3-553 [554: blank] [555: colophon] [556-558: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold...

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San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 720 copies this is one of the twenty of 220 hardcover copies marked "Presentation Copy" signed by Zelazny.

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New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-306, title page printed in orange and black, patterned green end papers, original orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black and...

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London: Gollancz, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Charles Paris mystery.

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "White is rather neglected at present but for unadorned action, suspense and vigorous storytelling his novels have seldom been surpassed." - St...

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The 11th annual Mystery Writer's of America anthology. Author's collected include Ross MacDonald, Margaret Millar, Stanley Ellin, Stuart Palmer, Ellery Queen and eighteen others.

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Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1997. Quarto, Illustrated by Rick Berry, cloth. First printing of this illustrated edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the Ellison and the artist Rick Berry.

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New York: Saturday Review Press/E.P. Dutton, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Mario Balzic mystery. "...written in a readable, literate style, tightly plotted and with believable, very human characters in familiar settings." - Pronzini...

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Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing. 352 copies printed. The author's first book. Text offset from that of the 1955 Ace edition. New introduction by Thomas M. Disch. "Dick's...

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Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by W. T. Ballard, Robert Bloch, Dorothy Dunn and others.

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New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1940. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, Leigh Brackett and others. Part 1 of "If This Goes On" by Robert A. Heinlein.

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New York, NY: Teck Publishing Corporation, 1931. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.

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San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 copies of the trade edition. The definitive Magnus Ridolph collection, collects the contents of THE MANY WORLDS OF MAGNUS RIDOLPH (1966)...

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Review slip laid in. History of Spiritualism in America from the Mid-Nineteenth century to the early Twentieth century.

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New York: Walker and Company, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Norby book.

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New York: William Morrow And Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-246 [247-248: blank], original light green cloth, spine stamped in black and red, top edge stained red. First edition. The author's eighth mystery novel...

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New York: Standard Magazines, Inc. 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "New Bodies For Old" by Jack Vance, a Chateau d'If story, "Battling Bolto" by L. Ron Hubbard...

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New York: The Red Star News, Co. 1930. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by J. Allan Dunn, Fred MacIsaac, Victor Maxwell and others. "Detective Fiction Weekly maintained a strong personality in a....

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San Bernadino, CA; Penn Valley, CA & Lancaster, PA: R. Reginald, The Borgo Press; Underwood-Miller, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, this being copy number 1, signed by Vance, Robert...

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New York: Random House, [1940]. Octavo, [1-10] [1-2] 3-321 [322-326]. cloth. First edition. An outstanding post-catastrophe novel. "Good character development -- complex. Thoughtful anthropological insight." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-29. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-62 and (1981) 3-77.

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1953]. Octavo, cover art Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Author's second SF novel. Richard Powers dust jacket art.

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1959. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

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New York: Ace Books, [2006]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "GLASSHOUSE (2007) is set mainly in a kind of pocket universe within an isolated starship, featuring issues of gender and identity as the male protagonist is...

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Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-256 [257: ad] [258: blank] [259-263: ads] [264: blank] [265-267: ads] [268: blank], ten inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive-green...

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.

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Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Facsimile edition of the July 1939 edition of Astounding which is regarded as the start of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction"...

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[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page Estleman. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...when a renowned Detroit architect hires him to...

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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...

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