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HIS LEVEL BEST AND OTHER STORIES.
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., pp. [1-8] [1] 2-293 [294-296: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, brown coated endpapers. First edition. Contains the first book publication of "The Brick Moon," an early, perhaps the first, story to describe the construction and launching of an artificial satellite. "The Brick Moon" was first published as a serial in THE ATLANTIC, October -- December 1869 and a sequel, "Life in the Brick Moon," appeared in the February 1870 issue. The text presented here is an edited, combined version of the two stories. Among the other stories collected here are "A Tale of a Salamander," a supernatural story, and "The Queen of California," a medieval lost race story of the discovery of the Island of California, translated from the Spanish by Hale. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-91; (1987) 1-48; (1995) 1-48; and (2004) II-483. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 48-9. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 984. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, p. 43. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 102. Locke, Voyages in Space 97. Bleiler (1978), p. 91. Reginald 06635. Wright (II) 1052. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1004.
THE STRANGE PAPERS OF DR BLAYRE.
[London]: Philip Allan, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-271 [272: blank], original blue-green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. Enlarged edition. New edition of THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE (1921) with four additional stories. "Collection of stories supposedly 'selected from the unofficial records of the University of Cosmopoli' by its 'sometime registrar' -- the mock introduction is dated 1952 ... The stories (not all supernatural) are satirical, mocking the gentility and earnestness of the academic school of supernatural writing developed by M. R. James ... The ironic wit is not to everyone's taste, but these are among the best satirical weird tales." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-28. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 92-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 204. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 226. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 080. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 60. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 36. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 201. Bleiler (1978), p. 26. Reginald 07140.
THE COLLECTED STRANGE PAPERS OF CHRISTOPHER BLAYRE.
[Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 250 copies printed. Collects seventeen stories, the contents of two story collections, THE STRANGE PAPERS OF DR BLAYRE (1932) and SOME WOMEN OF THE UNIVERSITY: BEING A LAST SELECTION FROM THE STRANGE PAPERS OF CHRISTOPHER BLAYRE ... (1934), plus the rare THE CHEETAH-GIRL (1923).
CITY OF BRASS: AND OTHER SIMON ARK STORIES.
North Hollywood: Leisure Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. LB 29S. Paperback original. The second collection featuring Simon Ark. Occult detective stories investigated by a 2000 year old Coptic heretic. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-171.
CITY OF BRASS: AND OTHER SIMON ARK STORIES.
North Hollywood: Leisure Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. LB 29S. Paperback original. The second collection featuring Simon Ark. Occult detective stories investigated by a 2000 year old Coptic heretic. See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-171.
ELLERY QUEEN PRESENTS THE SPY AND THE THIEF.
New York: Davis Publications Inc., [1971]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Number 3 in the new series of Ellery Queen presents. This volume, done in digest magazine format, collects 14 stories, 7 feature Rand, the spy and 7 feature Nick Velvet, thief. Introductions by Ellery Queen.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HAND.
London: Robert Hale & Company, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Computer crime.
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HAND.
New York: Walker and Company, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A science fiction mystery novel, sequel to THE TRANSVECTION MACHINE.
THE FRANKENSTEIN FACTORY.
London: Robert Hale & Company, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. In the 21st century a Doctor plans to create man from parts from corpses in cryonics vaults.
THE JUDGES OF HADES: AND OTHER SIMON ARK STORIES.
North Hollywood: Leisure Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. LB 33S K. Paperback original. The first Simon Ark book. Occult detective stories investigated by a 2000 year old Coptic heretic. "Because they were written originally for publication in detective magazines, the stories feature more complex ratiocination and plotting than Seabury Quinn's tales of Jules de Grandin to which they are sometimes compared." Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-171.
THE JUDGES OF HADES: AND OTHER SIMON ARK STORIES.
North Hollywood: Leisure Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. LB 33S K. Paperback original. The first Simon Ark book. Occult detective stories investigated by a 2000 year old Coptic heretic. "Because they were written originally for publication in detective magazines, the stories feature more complex ratiocination and plotting than Seabury Quinn's tales of Jules de Grandin to which they are sometimes compared." Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-171.
THE JUDGES OF HADES: AND OTHER SIMON ARK STORIES.
North Hollywood: Leisure Books, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. LB 33S K. Paperback original. The first Simon Ark book. Occult detective stories investigated by a 2000 year old Coptic heretic. "Because they were written originally for publication in detective magazines, the stories feature more complex ratiocination and plotting than Seabury Quinn's tales of Jules de Grandin to which they are sometimes compared." Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-171.
THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
Concord, NH: Mercury Press, Inc., 1967. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, Digest sized magazine. Features a new Conan story, "The Hall of the Dead" by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague De Camp. This story was developed from an outline by Howard found in his papers.
FROM BEYOND THE DARK GATEWAY.
Monterey, CA: A Silver Scarab Publication, 1974. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Amateur Magazine devoted to dark fantasy. Includes an unpublished Robert E. Howard story, "The Black Bear Bites." Written around 1930-31 this is an early draft, the final draft lost after Howard's death (per Glenn Lord who provided this to the magazine.).
THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
Concord, NH: Mercury Press, Inc., 1966. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, Digest sized magazine. Features a newly discovered Robert E. Howard story, "For the Love of Barbara Allen."
THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
Cornwall, CT: Mercury Press, Inc., 1984. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, Digest sized magazine. Features the first publication of "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" by Stephen King.
SKY FIGHTERS.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Air stories. Includes a Louis L'Amour short story.
THE CRYSTAL MAN: LANDMARK SCIENCE FICTION. Collected and with a Biographical Perspective by Sam Moskowitz.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirty stories by a hitherto little-known master of SF whose work was published in the New York SUN in the 1870s and 1880s. "Interesting stories, exceptionally well-handled for their period." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1522. "Mitchell proves himself a competent, highly imaginative writer." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 570. Includes "The Ablest Man in the World," a early computer story. "Even though American author Edward Page Mitchell was aware of the dimensions of the Difference Engine, his 1879 story "The Ablest Man in the World" envisions a computer explicitly superior to Babbage's being inserted into the head of a man (transforming him from an idiot into a genius who runs the Russian empire)." - H. Bruce Franklin. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-124; (1987) 1-65; (1995) 1-65; (2004) II-770. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural fiction 1181. Reginald 10180.
THE CHALLENGE FROM BEYOND.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. New edition. In 1935 Fantasy Magazine asked 5 weird fiction writers and 5 science fiction writers to write two collaborative stories around the title The Challenge From Beyond. Presented here is both versions. (Necronomincon Press previously published this in an illustrated edition in 1978).
THE SAVAGE CLUB PAPERS. Edited by J. E. Muddock. Art Editor Herbert Johnson.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xvi 1-376, illustrations by W. D. Almond and others, original pictorial gray cloth stamped in orange and black, decorated endpapers. First edition. Anthology of fiction and poetry, mostly light or humorous, but including some adventure and crime fiction. Includes work by J. E. Muddock, George Manville Fenn and Arthur Morrison, as well as "Only a Hunchback!" by G. A. Henty. The third and last issue of a literary annual series, issued 29 years after the preceding volume! Not in Faxon or Wolff.
THE MAN-HUNTER: STORIES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A DETECTIVE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-284 + 32 page publisher's catalog dated "July 1888" inserted at rear. original red cloth, front stamped in gray and black, spine stamped in gold and black, rear stamped in black, floral end papers. First edition. Collects thirteen "Dick Donovan" stories. The author's first collection of stories. A prolific author he wrote 184 stories featuring Donovan. Hubin, p. 240. Queen's Quorum 14. Queen, The Detective Short Story p. 32. Not in Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction.
NIGHT VISIONS 2.
Niles, IL: Dark Harvest, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the Morrell, Brennan, Wagner, editor Grant, and artist Robert W. Lavoie. This is copy number 233. Original anthology with twelve stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-356.
DON'T CRY, BELOVED.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1952. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
SCARAB MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
Chicago: Black Horse Press, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, printed wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of two published. Features stories by Frank Kane (Johnny Liddell), Paul Marcus and Edward Ronns (pseudonym for Edward Aarons). Another interesting start which suffered poor distribution. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, p. 464.
THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS: THE STORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND AFTER.
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., [1920]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-290 [291-296,catalog of books]. original dark gray cloth, spine panel stamped in pink. First edition. "General strike in 1924 marks the beginning of the collapse of civilization. 150 years later England is reduced to neolithical barbarism." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy, p. 147. "The first of the many British postwar novels that foresee Britain returned to barbarism by the ravages of war." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-107. "One of the most widely read scientific romances of the post-war years..." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 239. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-88; (1987) 2-97; and (2004) II-981. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2002. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 684. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 48. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 236. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 193. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1024. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 166. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12922.