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THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION: TRIPLANETARY, FIRST LENSMAN, GALACTIC PATROL, GRAY LENSMAN, SECOND STAGE LENSMEN, and CHILDREN OF THE LENS.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, Inc., 1955. Octavo, six volumes, leather-backed cloth. Limited edition. One of 75 sets (number 25), each volume with inserted numbered limitation leaf signed by Smith. This first volume warmly inscribed to a long time friend. Collects the six-volume "Lensman" series comprising TRIPLANETARY, FIRST LENSMAN, GALACTIC PATROL, GRAY LENSMAN, SECOND STAGE LENSMEN, and CHILDREN OF THE LENS. "The greatest of the early golden age space opera." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-355. "The space opera to end all space operas, with humans and aliens arrayed (some on each side) in a cosmic war of Good and Evil ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-167. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1183-87.
THE VORTEX BLASTER.
Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, trade issue. Second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Not part of the Lensman series, but set in the same universe, with several Lensmen as characters.
THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE BOOK OF LISTS.
New York: The Armchair Detective, 1989. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Includes Queen's Quorum, Mystery Writers of America awards (Edgars), H.R.F. Keating's 100 best, Haycraft-Queen list, and much more.
THE JADE GOD.
New York and London: Published by The Century Co., [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-312 [313-314: blank]. original yellow cloth, front stamped n black and light green, spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Weird mystery novel. From the front flap: "The story, as its title indicates, centers upon a jade god, made by one Lung Sen..." ...[it] seems to reach out, exerting powerful influence over strange and mysterious events..." "The author makes bold and clever use of modern knowledgeof telepathy, and he succeeds in conveying something of the atmosphere of the East which is so alluringly romantic to Occidental eyes." Source for a Broadway play of the same title. Bleiler (1978), p. 189. Reginald 13852.
PERKINS, THE FAKEER: A TRAVESTY ON REINCARNATION.
New York, London: The Smart Set Publishing Co., 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-10 [11-14] 15-377 [378: blank] [379-381: ads] [382-386: blank] [notes; first and last two leaves are blanks; title leaf is conjugate with frontispiece and is an insert], four inserted plates with illustrations by Hy Mayer, original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in red, white, black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Three stories with humorous treatment of personality transference. First story, "When Reginald was Caroline," is sex reversal with husband in wife's body. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1628. Bleiler (1978), p. 198. Reginald 14578. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 V-148.
THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES IX.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1981]. Small octavo, cover art by Michael Whelan, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW Books No. 445. Collects eleven stories by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, T.E.D. Klein, and others. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.
THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES XIV.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1986]. Small octavo, cover by Michael Whelan, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW Books No. 688. Collects nineteen stories by Ramsey Campbell, David Schow, Tanith Lee, Simon Clark and others. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.
THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES XV.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1987]. Small octavo, cover by Michael Whelan, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW Books No. 724. Collects eighteen stories by Robert Bloch, Joe Lansdale, Charles L. Grant, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-421.
ECHOES OF VALOR II.
[New York]: TOR, [1987]. Small octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of heroic fantasy, most first printed in pulp or amateur magazines. Authors include Robert E. Howard, C.L. Moore, Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury, Manly Wade Wellman and Henry Kuttner.
THE BOOK OF KANE
[West Kingston, RI]: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 425 numbered copies signed by Wagner and artist Jeff Jones. This book collects the complete short stories to feature his anti-hero Kane. Sixteen stories, two poems, essay by Wagner on the Origins of Kane and surviving text from a lost Kane novel.
THE BOOK OF KANE
[West Kingston, RI]: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 425 numbered copies signed by Wagner and artist Jeff Jones. This book collects the complete short stories to feature his anti-hero Kane. Sixteen stories, two poems, essay by Wagner on the Origins of Kane and surviving text from a lost Kane novel.
THE BOOK OF KANE ...
[West Kingston, Rhode Island]: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 425 numbered copies signed by Wagner and artist Jeff Jones.
GODS IN DARKNESS: THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF KANE.
San Francisco & Portland: Night Shade Books, [2002]. Octavo, cover art by Ken Kelly, boards. First combined hardcover edition. One of 150 copies limited copies signed by artist Ken Kelly. Collects BLOODSTONE (1975), DARK CRUSADE (1976) and DARKNESS WEAVES (1978; revised text), all first published as paperback originals.
UNTHREATENED BY THE MORNING LIGHT.
[Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, 1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Of 350 copies this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Wagner. Collects three stories with an introduction by Wagner. Issued as Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Two, November 1989.
UNTHREATENED BY THE MORNING LIGHT.
[Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, 1989]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered clothbound copies signed by Wagner. Collects three stories with an introduction by Wagner. Issued as Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Two, November 1989.
UNTHREATENED BY THE MORNING LIGHT.
[Eugene, OR: Author's Choice Monthly Pulphouse Publishing, 1989]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Collects three stories with an introduction by Wagner. Issued as Author's Choice Monthly, Issue Two, November 1989.
WHY NOT YOU AND I? ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Wagner and artists Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn. Collects eleven stories including "Lucunae" and "Lost Exits," that were not printed in the 1987 Tor edition, the latter first published here. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-381. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-310.
ESCAPE!
Huntsville, AL: Charles W. Melvin, 1977. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Amateur magazine. Includes a Kane story, "The Other One," which is signed by Wagner at the head of the story. First publication of this story.
MIDNIGHT SUN.
Birmingham, England: Stephen Jones, 1981. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Magazine. Includes the Kane story "The Other One" by Karl Edward Wagner.
CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1940]. pp. [1-12] 13-127 [128], 96 black and white photographs by Edward Weston, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in silver. First edition. Collection of photographs by Edward Weston made during the period of 1937-39 while he was on Guggenheim fellowships (the first photographer to receive those grants). Text from a diary kept by his second wife, Charis. Edward Weston is considered to be one of the master photographers of the 20th Century.
LUKUNDOO AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-328, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. "Very competent material horror stories, original in idea (for the most part), sources for a good deal of later work." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1698. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 182. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-212. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1108. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 462. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-255. Bleiler (1978), p. 207. Reginald 15227.
LUKUNDOO AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-328, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. Story collection. "Very competent material horror stories, original in idea (for the most part), sources for a good deal of later work." - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1698. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 182. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-212. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1108. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 462. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-255. Bleiler (1978), p. 207. Reginald 15227.
LUKUNDOO AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-328, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. Story collection. "Very competent material horror stories, original in idea (for the most part), sources for a good deal of later work." - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1698. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 182. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-212. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1108. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 462. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-255. Bleiler (1978), p. 207. Reginald 15227.
THE LEOPARD WOMAN.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Octavo, pp. [iii-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [1-2] 3-313 [314: publisher's colophon] [note: text complete in spite of gap in pagination], eight inserted plates with illustrations by W. H. D. Koerner, First edition. Adventure novel set in Central Africa during World War I. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume III, p. 86 (describing the UK edition).
THE SIGN AT SIX.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-108.