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THE PRIVATE EYE.
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-284, jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., original light gray cloth, spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut. First edition. Private eye novel set in Arizona involving corrupt cops, gangsters and shady mine operators. "...in his own style Adams captured the gray and gritty feel of the time as powerfully as Chandler, and created as enduring an image of the private detective." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), p. 3. Some readers consider this one of Adams best books. [Reference: Hubin, p. 3].
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Jack Williamson, Don A. Stuart (John W. Campbell, Jr.), John Taine and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by Howard V. Brown. Feature story is the first part of "The Incredible Invasion" by Murray Leinster. Other stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Nat Schachner, Wallace West, and others. Also includes the conclusion of the serial, "The Cometeers" by Jack Williamson. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by Howard V. Brown. Feature novel is The Skylark of Valeron by "Doc" Smith (part 1), other stories by Nat Schachner, Frank Belknap Long, Jack Williamson (The Legion of Space p. 5) and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the first published SF story by Eric Frank Russell. Also Stanton Coblents, Jack Williamson and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Article on rockets by Willy Ley "Dawn of the Conquest of Space." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 1 of "The Cometeers" by Jack Williamson. Stories by Don A. Stuart, Frank Belknap Long and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Murray Leinster serial. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Murray Leinster serial. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103].
TOLD IN THE MARKET PLACE.
London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 13-509 [510] [511-512: ads], original purple cloth, front and spine stamped in blind and yellow, rear stamped in blind. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Britten on the second free end paper, dated March 1935. Collects eighteen stories and an introduction by the author, some crime. [Reference: Hubin, p. 37].
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. ].
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv-vi] 7-288 + 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 31-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 31. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01137].
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv-vi] 7-288 + 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 31-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 31. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01137].
THE FACE: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME FOUR. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 600 copies printed. The fourth of five volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from December 1923 to November 1927.
THE INHERITOR.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-316 [317-318: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original decorated dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. This novel "features a family curse -- engendering the birth of monsters -- and a protagonist tempted by perversion." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 106. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 146. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01131].
MRS AMWORTH: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME THREE. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collection of sixteen stories first published 1922-23. The third volume in the projected five volume collection of Benson's stories.
THE PASSENGER: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME TWO. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. The second of five projected volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from 1912-1921.
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER AND OTHER STORIES ...
London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1912]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-338 [339-344: ads] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Benson's first collection of ghost stories. "By far the best of his four books of ghost stories, this contains seventeen tales, each almost too well-rounded to fault." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 30. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 32. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 139. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 81. Penzoldt, The Supernatural in Fiction, p. 257. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-15. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01134].
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER AND OTHER STORIES ...
London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1912]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-338 [339-344: ads] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Benson's first collection of ghost stories. "By far the best of his four books of ghost stories, this contains seventeen tales, each almost too well-rounded to fault." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 30. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 32. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 139. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 81. Penzoldt, The Supernatural in Fiction, p. 257. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-15. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01134].
SEA MIST: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME FIVE. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2005. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 600 copies printed. The last of five volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from 1927-40.