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THE SECOND WAR OF THE WORLDS.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1976]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. DAW 215. Paperback original. The Martian invaders try again, invading a parallel Earth.
HIGHWAYS IN HIDING.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Science fiction novel.
HIGHWAYS IN HIDING.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Science fiction novel.
NOMAD.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, [1950]. Octavo, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Signed by Smith on the front free endpaper.
NOMAD.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, [1950]. Octavo, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Signed by Smith on the title page.
NOMAD.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, [1950]. Octavo, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. First serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944.
PATH OF UNREASON.
Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1958.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Expanded and rewritten from the novelette "Kingdom of the Blind" which first appeared in Startling Stories, July, 1947.
PATTERN FOR CONQUEST.
NY: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1949]. Octavo, jacket by Edd Cartier, cloth. First edition.
PATTERN FOR CONQUEST.
NY: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1949]. Octavo, jacket by Edd Cartier, cloth. First edition.
PATTERN FOR CONQUEST.
New York: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1949]. Octavo, jacket by Edd Cartier, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Smith on the title page.
VENUS EQUILATERAL.
Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1947. Hardcover. First edition. The author's first book. A collection of hard SF stories first published in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION during the 1940s.
HELLFLOWER.
New York: Abelard Press, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Generic inscription signed by Smith on the title page. Although set in the future on Venus, the tone of the novel is hard-boiled noir, complete with a lurid plot element: a surefire aphrodisiac derived from a flower grown on that planet.
HELLFLOWER.
New York: Abelard Press, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Although set in the future on Venus, the tone of the novel is hard-boiled noir, complete with a lurid plot element: a surefire aphrodisiac derived from a flower grown on that planet.
MAKE MINE A HARLOT.
Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England / Cleveland, OH: Archer Press, Ltd. distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kaywin Publishers, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition. Hard boiled crime novel with P. I. Nick Cranley, set in Chicago. Hubin, p. 777.
VOODOO ISLAND.
London: Columbine Publishing Company, Ltd., n.d., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-254 [255-256] publisher's red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Crime thriller featuring private investigator Grant Rushton. Tracking an international financial criminal, Rushton travels to Haiti where he encounters the villainous Marie Galante, "the octoroon high priestess" of a voodoo cult.The prolific Mr. Teed is well know for having written nearly 300 Sexton Blake stories as well as contributing to regularly to other publications. This is one the the last novels that the author produced as he died in 1938. Hubin, p. 791.
A VOYAGE TO THE MOON: WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, OF THE PEOPLE OF MOROSOFIA, AND OTHER LUNARIANS. By Joseph Atterley [pseudonym] ...
New-York: Elam Bliss, 128 Broadway, 1827. 12mo, pp. [i-iii] iv [5] 6-11 [12-13] 14-264, flyleaves at front and rear, original paper covered boards, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. The earliest interplanetary novel by a native American to use mechanical means for space travel and a basic work out of which American SF developed in the nineteenth century. It is chiefly a satirical story, reminiscent of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, in which the pseudonymous author and hero, Joseph Atterley, and a companion travel to the Moon in a space vehicle coated with an antigravity metal where they observe several Lunarian societies. According to Thomas D. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 30-1, "Tucker's most significant advancement of SF came when he introduced into the text for their own sake discussions of current scientific theories ..." "A sprawling lunar satire in the vein of pioneered by Cyrano de Bergerac, more closely related to SF than most by virtue of the manner in which it toys briefly with the ideas of several contemporary scientists and social philosophers, including William Godwin, Erasmus Darwin, and Thomas Robert Malthus." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-56. In addition to A VOYAGE TO THE MOON, George Tucker (1775-1861), wrote more than twenty works of biography, history, economics and moral and political philosophy, as well as a second SF novel, A CENTURY HENCE, OR A ROMANCE OF 1941, a tale of the future written around 1841, but not published until 1977. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-4; (1981) 1-8; (1987) 1-4; (1995) 1-4; and (2004) II-56. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 45. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 91. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel T22. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 189. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V105. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1112. Joel Nydahl, "Early Fictional Futures: Utopia, 1798-1864," Kenneth M. Roemer (ed), America as Utopia (1981), p. 291. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 40. Bleiler (1978), p. 12. Reginald 00620. Wright (I) 2611.
BRAIN CHILD.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1991]. Octavo, First edition. A man who was orphaned as a child discovers his father before birth was genetically enhanced for increased intelligence. He sets out to find the truth.
THE DESTINY MAKERS.
New York: AvoNova/William Morrow and Co., 1993. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof.
THE SEA AND SUMMER.
London, Boston: Faber and Faber, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the 1988 Arthur C. Clarke Award for best SF novel published in Britain in 1987. 1988 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1147. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #12. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
VANEGLORY.
London: Faber & Faber, 1981. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Sequel to Beloved Son.
THE YESTERDAY'S MEN.
London: Faber & Faber, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Sequel to Beloved Son and Vaneglory.
UNIVERSE SCIENCE FICTION. (Ten issues, all published).
Chicago, (later) Evanston, IL: Bell Publications, (later) Palmer Publications, 1953-1955. Small octavo, ten issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Authors include Murray Leinster, Robert Bloch, William Campbell Gault, Isaac Asimov, Edward E. Smith, Frank Robinson, Evan Hunter, Donald Westlake, Zenna Henderson, Margaret St. Clair and others. The first issue has the "The World Well Lost" by Theodore Sturgeon, a controversial story at the time. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 692-694.
THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THROUGHOUT THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THEIR INDEPENDENCE; AND THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ...
New York: Printed by Hopkins & Seymour ... 1807. Small quarto, pp. [i-v] vi-viii [1] 2-376, inserted frontispiece with tissue guard (stipple engraved portrait by William S. Leney of New York after the portrait by Gilbert Stuart), nineteenth-century three-quarter pebbled morocco and marbled boards, spine panel lettered and tooled in gold, top edge gilt, other edges rough trimmed, marbled endpapers. First edition. An early life of George Washington by American physician, politician and historian David Ramsey (1749-1815) who "remained to the end the pious, benevolent, and unwearied public servant" (DAB). According to DAB, Ramsay's laudatory biography of Washington "was a mere political and military narrative, but was very popular." Ramsey was shot and killed by a maniac in 1815. Howes R-38. Sabin 67695.
THE GOTHIC HORROR AND OTHER WEIRD TALES.
Buffalo: Weirdbook, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Tim Kirk, Hardcover. First edition. Of 1200 copies this is one of the hardcover issues (approximately 250 copies such bound). Illustrated by Tim Kirk.
THE LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY: VOLUME I - VOLUME VII.
[Madison, Wisconsin]: The Strange Company, [1979]. Large octavo, printed wrappers. New edition, i.e. second edition. Limited to 150 copies. Reprint in one volume of Wetzel's bio-bibliographic work from the early 1950s which encompasses: Volumes I & II, Selected Essays; Volumes III & IV, Selected Poetry; Volume V, the Amateur Journalist; Volume VI, Commentaries and Volume VII, Bibliographies. New material by Alain Everts and Robert Briney. Concerning the bibliography: Wetzel's work is "a landmark bibliography ... The foundation for all subsequent work in the field." - Joshi III-B-35.