THE SINGING DIAMONDS AND OTHER STORIES.
McCloy, Helen.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, jacket illustration by Lee Brown Coye, cloth. First edition. 2007 copies printed. The author's first collection of short fiction, twelve Oriental fantasies first published in WEIRD TALES...
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., nd [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First printing with code "D 33" on page 149. The author's first book. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. A psychological thriller about a modern Jack the Ripper who kills women in London's Whitechapel district. Hubin, p. 869.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1944. Octavo, single issue, cover by Malcolm Smith, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "I, Rocket" by Ray Bradbury. Brabury's first sale to Amazing Stories. Also fiction by Edmond Hamilton, Emil Petaja...
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
New York: The Heritage Press, 1950 (volume 1), 1952 (volumes 2 & 3). Octavo, illustrated throughout by Frederic Dorr Steele, Sidney Paget and others, cloth backed boards. Later editions. In three volumes the entire Sherlock...
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First revised paperback edition. Pocket 50058. Contents of this edition differ somewhat from the contents of the 1946 paperback edition published by Bantam. Collection of...
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Compnay, 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Novelet by Bruno Fischer, "Mind Your Own Murder," stories by Howard Browne (Wilbur Peddie), Brett Halliday (Mike Shayne) and others.
New York: The John Day Company, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Novel of the famed race written by someone who has driven it.
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. 1961 Hugo award winner. "600 years after an atomic deluge the Age of Simplification reigns supreme, but a development to new...
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Octavo, original red-brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. Merritt's second book. Although Wentz notes "several printings" and G. Gordon Dewey in FANTASY...
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW Fantasy No. 597. Signed by Karl Wagner at his contribution. Collects eleven stories by Karl Edward Wagner, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, James...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author. Supernatural thriller.
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: Pocket Books, Inc., 1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket Book 651. A J. J. Malone novel.
[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR118. Book 1 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction...
Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. Later edition. New introduction by Anthony Storr. Text offset from the 1935 Simon and Schuster edition. A terrifying journey into the earth's interior. The protagonist...
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994, i.e. 1995]. Octavo, frontispiece by Pat Morrissey, full leather, a.e.g. First hardcover edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by McDonald. Introduction by James Gunn. In the...
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1926. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Andrew Brosnatch, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by H. G Wells, Frank Belknap Long, Arthur J. Burks, Eli Colter, and others...
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2029 copies printed. Collects fifteen macabre and fantastic stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES. According to August Derleth, "The stories in this collection are, on...
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1948-1949(volume 1, number 1-volume 2, number 4). Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. All published. A short lived, but important periodical. In addition to printing first appearances of fiction by Ray...
Tucson: Dennis McMillan, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Trade issue, signed by Anderson.
New York: William Morrow, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second volume in "The Baroque Cycle." "Although couched as historical novels, spanning the emergence of the Enlightenment in Western thought, the books do have fantastical...
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Doubleday, [1988]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. More of a contemporary thriller with an sf element set in Mexico. Centered around several protagonists who converge on an ancient Mayan...
Boston: The Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book.
San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1978. Octavo, illustrated by Steve Hickman, cloth. First printing of unabridged text. This copy is signed by Vance on the title page. Limited to 1000 copies of which this...
New York: Published by Dell Publishing Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover painting by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10¢ Book 36. Paperback original, a "Dell 10 cent book." First published in Astounding...
Baltimore: The Mirage Press, 1973. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Of approximately 1250 copies printed, this is one of 750 paperbound copies.
New York: Ace Books, 2003. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. "Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is IRON...
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Copy number 23 of 50 numbered handbound copies signed by Oates. Dickinson A54d.
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Sequel to Dark of the Moon. A collection of macabre poetry.
Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition.
[New York]: A Midwood Book, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood F308. Paperback original.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1994]. Octavo, frontispiece by Jeff Fisher, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by McDevitt. Introduction by James Gunn. The first book of...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Dr. Thorndyke mystery.
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