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COSMOS (SERIAL NOVEL).
[Jamaica, New York: Conrad H. Ruppert, 1933-1935.]. Octavo, seventeen parts plus preliminaries, the parts and the two preliminary leaves professionally bound in black cloth. First edition. COSMOS, a legendary collaborative novel by eighteen authors, was published in seventeen parts as supplements to SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST (later FANTASY MAGAZINE), July 1933–January 1935. In order of appearance, contributors were Ralph Milne Farley, David G. Keller, Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Frances Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters, Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, P. Schuyler Miller, Lloyd A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, and Edmond Hamilton. The title page (designed by Hannes Bok) and table of contents were printed with the final issue. In 1946 Sam Moskowitz estimated that only thirty complete sets of COSMOS existed. [Reference: Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 16. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 19].
THE HOMUNCULUS.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-198. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 937. In 333].
THE HUMAN TERMITES: A 1929 SCIENCE FICTION EXTRAVAGANZA.
[New Orleans: P.D.A. Enterprises, 1979]. Wrappers. First edition. Paperback original, pictorial wrappers. Chapbook format. Volume Two of The David H. Keller Memorial Library. Edited by Patrick H. Adkins, illustrated by Dixie Adkins. This is a complete unedited offset reprint of a novel which was serialized in Science Wonder Stories starting in 1929. It also includes the Frank R. Paul illustrations.
THE LADY DECIDES.
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 that were for sale.
THE LAST MAGICIAN: NINE STORIES FROM WEIRD TALES.
[New Orleans: P.D.A. Enterprises, 1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Volume One of The David H. Keller Memorial Library. Edited by Patrick H. Adkins. Nine stories offset from the original Weird Tales appearances with the original illustrations.
THE FOLSOM FLINT AND OTHER CURIOUS TALES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seventeen stories, including "The Thing in the Cellar," "A Piece of Linoleum and The Dead Woman," three of his best known stories, as well as others first collected here in a book. Most of the stories were published in the pulps and in amateur magazines between 1932 and 1952. Includes a 13-page "In Memoriam: David Henry Keller" by Paul Spencer. 2031 copies printed. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 939. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-125].
LIFE EVERLASTING.
Newark, New Jersey: The Avalon Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. This copy number 9. Associational copy, warmly inscribed and signed by Keller under the author's photograph frontispiece to Robert A. (Bob) Madle, noted fan, dealer and a founder of First Fandom. Madle would publish Keller's book THE SOLITARY HUNTER AND THE ABYSS in the next year. The only book published by The Avalon Company. The edition totaled approximately 1000 copies of which 300 were later destroyed by water while in storage. Collects the short novel "Life Everlasting" and eleven short stories, most first published in the pulps, including WEIRD TALES, during the 1930s. Includes a 25-page "Introduction" by Sam Moskowitz. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-586. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-113. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 935. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 571].
THE SOLITARY HUNTERS AND THE ABYSS: TWO FANTASTIC NOVELS.
Philadelphia: New Era Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Keller on the front free end paper. "Two novellas, the first a 1934 WEIRD TALES serial about monstrous insects, the second an interesting horror/SF story about the pollution of New York's water supply by a drug that obliterates the inhibitions of civilization." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-85. The only book published by New Era Publishers. 2000 copies were printed. 1000 copies were bound and eventually most copies circulated, although some were damp marked while in storage. The 1000 sets of unbound sheets were junked by the printer.
THE ULTIMATE FRANKENSTEIN.
[London]: Headline, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Original anthology collecting nineteen stories by Katherine Dunn, Brian Aldiss, Michael Bishop, Kurt Vonnegut and others.