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[London]: Severn House, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Signed by Bear on the title page. The author's first book. Revised text following that of the 1987 Gollancz paperback.

New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam H5413. Inscribed on the inside front cover to mystery bookseller, publisher and editor Otto Penzler, signed as Walter Gibson/Maxwell Grant. A....

London: [Cassell & Company Limited, 1920]. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Includes the Sax Rohmer story "The Hand of the White Sheikh," which was later re-written by Rohmer a given a Chinatown setting and...

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1992. Octavo, quarter leather with boards. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Simmons, the deluxe edition. Notebooks kept by Simmons that influenced his books, words and sketches. Includes...

Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-297 [298-302: blank], original light green cloth, spine stamped in black, top edge stained green...

New York... Harper & Row Publishers, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-494].

New York: The Viking Press, [1973]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third novel. Only 4000 copies of this hardcover issue of the first printing were published. An exceptionally influential novel, winner of the William...

New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. First issue back to pulp size format from the "bedsheet" format. Includes part 1 of "Gather...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, jacket by Hannes Bok, cloth. First combined edition. 3014 copies printed. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST...

[Milwaukie, OR]: Dark Horse Books, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Number 799 of 1000 numbered copies signed by Danton Burroughs. Also a facsimile signature of Edgar Rice Burroughs. First publication of Burroughs's unfinished novel revised...

SF, California, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. A novel set on Big Planet. "Rivalry between actor-managers on the river-boats...

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1977. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Published in June 1977, same month as the U. K. edition published by Jonathan Cape. Psychological horror/mystery novel involving...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Hannes Bok, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Edmond Hamilton, Robert Bloch, E. Hoffman Price, Fritz Leiber (his first appearance in Weird...

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-374 [375-376], jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth, blue-green cloth, front and spine stamped in silver, top edge stained red, map end papers. First...

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of ten stories and a poem.

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of eighteen stories. "Slickly written, outwardly conventional sf and fantasy stories, but there's a certain slyness of tone which gives an additional...

Athol, Mass. Published by Paul Cook The Recluse Press, 1928. Octavo, unbound sheets. First edition. This is Lovecraft's first book of fiction. 300 copies were printed but the book was not published. A few copies...

New York & Cleveland: World Publishing, 1971. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1994]. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xi] xii [xiii-xiv] [1] 2-562, illustrations, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Winner of 1995 Hugo Award for best nonfiction book. Published posthumously, with an...

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edtion. Review copy materials laid in. A Milt Kovak mystery.

New York: Random House, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second DKA file novel. "...an excellent private eye procedural." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 307-08.

[London]: Head of Zeus, [2017]. Octavo, boards. First U.K. and first hardcover edition. Collects ten stories. Contents differ from the earlier trade paperback edition published in 2013 by Beijing Guomi Digital Technology, dropping three stories...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-218 [219-220: blank], original red cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black, top edge stained red. First edition. The novel is "...a brutal picture of...

New Kent, VA: Dead Letter Press, 2008. Octavo, illustrated boards. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Inscribed and signed by editor English to Joseph Wrzos (1929-2023), a long time fan, professional editor, researcher and recipient...

London: Gollancz, [2011]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed and dated (2011) by Redick on the title page, with an additional twp lines in the author's hand. Fantasy novel involving a great sailing ship, the third...

[London]: Macmillan, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "This hefty novel of interstellar war and alien contact in the 25th century, a sort of Starship Troopers as if written by Charles Dickens, ranks as one of...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Six detective tales selected from PRINCE ZALESKI (1895) and THE PALE APE (1911).

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Kenneth Fagg, cloth. First edition. On the planet Mercury an imperiled young miner and the pacifistic native wispies are forced to confront the...

Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Margaret Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Dorothy Quick, Robert Bloch, G. G. Pendarves, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman and...

[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1993. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of eighteen stories. "Slickly written, outwardly conventional sf and fantasy stories, but there's a certain slyness of tone which gives an additional...

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collection of four short novels, "Great Work of Time" won the 1990 World Fantasy Award for best novella. [Reference: Anatomy of...

Jamaica, New York, later New York, New York: Conrad H. Ruppert, later Julius Schwartz, 1932-1937. Large octavo, later octavo, 39 issues, self wrappers, stapled, later pictorial or printed wrappers, stapled in six bound volumes. First...

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. "America has fallen apart, and genetically engineered beastmen and others resist its reintegration." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition...

London, Melbourne, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1988]. Octavo, "First published in Great Britain in 1988 / (simultaneously in paperback and hardcover)..." on copyright page. First hardcover edition. Signed by Bear on the title page. [Reference: Barron...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Octavo, quarter cloth with boards. First edition. Label signed by Bradbury affixed to front free end paper. Collection of 22 stories, several original to this collection and several with...