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DIRTY TRICKS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Octavo, boards. First edition. Story collection.
THE EXILE KISS.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1991]. Octavo, frontispiece by Bob Eggleton, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Effinger. The third Budayeen novel. Sequel to WHEN GRAVITY FAILS (1987) and A FIRE IN THE SUN (1989). Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-363.
THE EXILE KISS.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The third Budayeen novel. Sequel to WHEN GRAVITY FAILS (1987) and A FIRE IN THE SUN (1989). See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-363.
A FIRE IN THE SUN.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The second Budayeen novel. Sequel to WHEN GRAVITY FAILS (1987). See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-363.
THE NICK OF TIME.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Humorous time travel novel.
THE NICK OF TIME.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A zany time-travel comedy which opens with the hero going back from 1996 to the New York World's Fair of 1939. All manner of complications follow, but the delight is mainly in the telling." -Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 254.
WHEN GRAVITY FAILS.
New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. 1988 Hugo nominee for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-154.
FEDERAL BULLETS...
New York: The William Caslon Company, Inc., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-256, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, top edge stained orange. First edition. The author's first mystery novel. Dan Fowler, special agent of the Department of Justice fights crime. "Tireless, vigilant and daring, Dan faces the sinister forces of the underworld..." - from the front flap copy. The authors first novel to feature Dan Fowler, G-Man.Fowler was the main character in G-Men Detective pulp magazine (1935-1953). George Eliot wrote the majority of the stories under the C. K. M. Scanlon house pseudonym. Eliot also wrote for other pulp fiction magazines. This is one of the few if not the only pulp hero type character to have stand alone novels written and published contemporary to also appearing in magazine. Major Eliot served in World War I and was a reserve U. S. military intelligence officer in the 1920s and early 30s. He started writing pulp fiction in the mid-20s and also wrote a book with recommendations on the national defense. During WW II he worked as an analyst CBS news and continued to write articles on military matters which continued after the war. Filmed in 1937 with the lead character's name changed. Hubin, p. 263.
AMONG THE DANGS: TEN SHORT STORIES ...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. In addition to the fine title story, this collection of short fiction includes "The NRACP," which depicts a racist, authoritarian dystopia set in a near future America. The National Relocation Authority: Colored Persons (NRACP) brings Black Americans bit by bit into a huge Colored Persons Reserve in Nevada where they are slaughtered for their meat. A "grisly modern enactment of Swift's 'Modest Proposal' ..." - Amis, New Maps of Hell, p. 154. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 274. Reginald 04796.
HARLAN ELLISON: UNREPENTANT HARLEQUIN.
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1977. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Volume six of The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today.
CURSED.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company Publishers, [1919]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-349 [350-352: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with color illustration by Modest Stein, original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A curse is laid upon a sea captain by a Malayan witch with near tragic consequences for his family. Bleiler (1948), p. 109. Reginald 04903. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-193.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, pictorial endpapers. First edition. An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-33. Clareson: Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s, #238. Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Early Years, #673.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, pictorial endpapers. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by England on the verso of the frontispiece: "A ma Bonne Amie / Madamoiselle Carney / avec mes meilleurs / voeux / George Allen England / 22 fevrier, 1914." An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-73; (1981) 1-67; (1987) 1-33 and (1995) 1-33. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 58-9. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 294.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, pictorial endpapers. Later printing. An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-73; (1981) 1-67; (1987) 1-33 and (1995) 1-33. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 58-9. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 294.
THE FLYING LEGION ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-394, inserted frontispiece with illustration by P. J. Monahan, original blue-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition. Adventure story first published as a six-part serial in ALL-STORY 15 November - 20 December 1919. A wealthy soldier of fortune and Islamist, whose inventions far surpass world technology of his day, forms the Legion in an unsuccessful attempt to reform Islam, which he believes to be the true religion. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-74 and (1981) 1-68. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 679. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 177-79. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 284. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04905. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-195.
THE FLYING LEGION ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-394, inserted frontispiece with illustration by P. J. Monahan, original blue-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition. Adventure story first published as a six-part serial in ALL-STORY 15 November - 20 December 1919. A wealthy soldier of fortune and Islamist, whose inventions far surpass world technology of his day, forms the Legion in an unsuccessful attempt to reform Islam, which he believes to be the true religion. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-74 and (1981) 1-68. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 679. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 177-79. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 284. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04905. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-195.
FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The tenth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman returns to America before the Civil War and becomes involved with John Brown.
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eighth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in China.
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eighth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in China.
FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The ninth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in India during the time of the First Sikh war.
FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Octavo, boards. First edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The twelth and final volume in the series.
THE CRIME CLUB: A STORY OF CRIME...
[Glasgow]: The Detective Story Club Ltd. for Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., nd, [c. 1929]. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-246, original black boards, front and spine stamped in gold. Later edition. An early volume in Collins Detective Story Club series which was the precursor to the Collins Crime Club. Collects twelve stories in chapter format.
ENTERED FROM THE SUN.
New York: Doubleday, 1990. Wrappers. Advance readers copy of the first edition. Mystery novel. Third book in a series set in the Elizabethan era of London in 1597 focusing on an investigation into the murder of Christopher Marlowe -- poet, playwright, and something of a spy.
THE HAUNTED MAN.
London: Eldon Press Ltd., n.d., [1951]. Octavo, original light blue cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. First publication in book form of a novel originally published in 1937 in DETECTIVE WEEKLY, a British pulp. "A yarn that deserves to achieve a horror certificate. Little Mr. Penfold, typical city clerk, complete with bowler hat and rolled umbrella is kidnapped by a gang of crooks who wanted information about the Safe Deposit where he was employed. He falls into the hands of a mad surgeon who operates on his brain and converts the inoffensive, mild little Mr. Penfold into a man of evil." - jacket blurb. Reginald 12300. Hubin (1994), p. 319.
THE CAVEMAN'S VALENTINE.
New York: Warner Books, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author. Winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel 1994.