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GHOST STORIES AND OTHER QUEER TALES.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., n.d., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-256, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange. First collected edition. An omnibus volume combining UNCANNY STORIES (1916) and MORE UNCANNY STORIES (1918), which in turn were selected from PEARSON'S NOVEL MAGAZINE. Includes two early stories by noted mystery writer Roy Vickers; also a death premonition story by Theo. Douglas (Mrs. H. D. Everett). Routine commercial work of World War I-era. On the plus side, it should be noted that these are stories seldom encountered elsewhere. "Mostly crude horror." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 690. [Reference: Bleiler (1978), p. 7. Reginald 05932].
SCIENCE-FICTION: THE EARLY YEARS.
Kent, OH, and London, England: The Kent State University Press, [1990]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. A survey of more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science-fiction elements from earliest times to 1930. An exhaustive study with long descriptions and evaluations of 2475 items, of which approximately 1675 are books and other separate publications (including 222 single-author collections and 60 anthologies) and about 800 are magazine stories. Each of the 2475 entries provide bibliography, including (for books) previous periodical publication (if any), and a full summary (up to 4000 words in some cases) of the story, with historical and critical comments. Author biographical data, where possible, accompany each item. Indexed by title, date, magazine, and motif/theme (35,000 entries), the latter of enormous value for further research in the genre. [Reference: 8-26. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 68].
THE CHECKLIST OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE.
[Naperville, Illinois]: Fax Collector's Editions, [1972]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint. Inscribed and signed by Bleiler on the front free end paper. Offset from the 1948 Shasta edition. The pioneer bibliographical checklist of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature. The checklist, based on seven years of research, records approximately 5300 books and pamphlets with emphasis on English-language prose works (including translations) published from 1764 (Walpole's The Castle of Otranto) through early 1948. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 7-1. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 178].
FRONTIERS IN SPACE: SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES...
New York: Bantam Books, [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 1328. A best of the best, selections from THE BEST SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES 1951, 1952, 1953. Collects fourteen stories.
IMAGINATION UNLIMITED.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corp. [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Berkley Books G233. Collects seven of the thirteen stories that appeared in the hardcover edition. Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Julian May, L. Sprague De Camp, Peter Phillips, John Berryman, and Frank Robinson.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, dark blue cloth. First edition, later binding. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, dark blue cloth. First edition, later binding. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
MAN OF MANY MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Mel Hunter, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies inscribed and signed by Evans. This is copy 158. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
THE PLANET MAPPERS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Young adult sf adventure novel.
THE DEATH-MASK AND OTHER GHOSTS.
[London]: Ghost Story Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. One of 350 numbered copies. First published in London by Philip Allan in 1920, this edition adds, "The Whispering Wall" (1916) and "The Pipers of Mallory" (1917), two previously uncollected stories published under the author's pseudonym "Theo Douglas," and new introduction by Richard Dalby. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, 76. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 615. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 286. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, pp. 194-95. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04972].
THE DEATH-MASK AND OTHER GHOSTS.
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-321 [322-324: ads], original red boards, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The author's only collection of supernatural fiction. "In his famous essay 'Some Remarks on Ghost Stories' (Bookman Christmas Number, 1929), M. R. James devoted one paragraph to recent collections, beginning with A. M. Burrage's SOME GHOST STORIES and H. R. Wakefield's THEY RETURN AT EVENING. 'Going back a few year's I light on Mrs. Everett's THE DEATH-MASK, of a rather quieter tone on the whole, but with some excellently conceived stories,' he wrote, before briefly mentioning the tales of Robert Hugh Benson - 'too ecclesiastical' - and the 'rather over-technically '"occult"' adventures of Flaxman Low by Kate & Hesketh Prichard and John Silence by Algernon Blackwood. In retrospect, Mrs. H. D. Everett's collection has become a much rarer volume than any of the contemporary titles listed by MRJ, and very few copies are known to exist today. Unlike Burrage and Wakefield, her tales are much closer in style (although several are set in the First World War, and quite modern in context) to the great 19th century women writers of ghost stories, notably Mary E. Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, and Mrs. J. H. Riddell... These fourteen original ghost stories were enthusiastically received by readers and critics alike ... THE DEATH-MASK was the first in a long line of supernatural collections published by Philip Allan. Its initial success must have encouraged him to issue THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE by 'Christopher Blayre' [Edward Heron-Allen] in 1921... and many more for the same company ... When Philip Allan inaugurated his 'Creeps' series in 1932, he revived two of Mrs. Everett's best stories - 'THE DEATH-MASK' in SHIVERS, and 'The Crimson Blind' in SHUDDERS -- both were reprinted in the 'Creeps' Omnibus three years later." - Richard Dalby. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, 76. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 615. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 286. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, pp. 194-95. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04972].
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. [Reference: 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].