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STOWAWAY TO MARS.
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. Nova Science Fiction Novels No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76].
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PLANET PLANE by John Beynon [pseudonym].
London: Newnes, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-247 [248], original yellow cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. The author's third book and second SF novel. An early interplanetary story by this noted British SF writer best known for fine catastrophe novels published under his John Wyndham pseudonym. [Reference: Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 69. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 33. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Reginald 15715].
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76].
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. [Reference: Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76].
UNCLE REMUS HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION ...
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1881. Octavo, pp. [1]-231 [232: blank] [333-340]: ads, flyleaves at front and rear, eight inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, butterfly design endpapers. First edition. BAL reports three states, probably printings; this one is the first, with "pesumptive," page 9, last line, and "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine ..." on page [233]. The author's first book and the first of his Uncle Remus books. [Reference: Grolier Club, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900 83. Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-7. BAL 7100. Not in Wright, American Fiction 1876-1900].
THE GALLANT SIX HUNDRED.
New York: Mason and Lipscomb Publishers, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Historical account of the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean war.
BLACK SUNDAY.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1975]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Filmed in 1977 by John Frankenheimer starring Bruce Dern, Robert Shaw and Marthe Keller. A terrorist plot to blow up the super bowl.
RED DRAGON.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Filmed twice, the first by Michael Mann in 1986 titled Manhunter and again in 2002 titled Red Dragon. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-135. Jones and Newman (eds.): Horror: 100 Best Books #84].
DACOBRA OR THE WHITE PRIESTS OF AHRIMAN ...
London: R. A. Everett & Co., Ltd., 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-315 [316-320: ads], original dark green cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. "Sensational horror thriller, in which an Oriental savant in a Scottish castle seeks to free soul of beloved from thrall of diabolic brotherhood; rife with supernatural elements, including immortality, metempsychosis, raising the dead, metastasis of stone to organic matter, all incorporated into occult framework based on Zoroastrian beliefs. Highly imaginative, suspense and weird atmosphere well-maintained throughout. An excellent specimen of its kind, well above the norm." - Robert Knowlton. [Reference: Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 43. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 545. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 06815].
GRAPHICS.
St. Louis: William Marion Reedy, 1913. Octavo, [1-8] [1-2] 3-319 [320: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank] cloth. First edition. Lyon's second collection of short fiction and his last book. Lyon's untimely death at age 33 cut short a promising literary career. His fiction was of high caliber and has been favorably compared with that of Stephen Crane and Ambrose Bierce. "The 31 tales and sketches in [Sardonics and Graphics] can be properly compared with the work of Crane and Bierce for vivid, highly characterized and purposeful narrative. 'The Second Motive' in Sardonics and 'Revenge' in Graphics are psychological murder tragedies at the two extremes of the social scale. Lyon, like Crane and Norris, died before his talents had fully matured and, unfortunately, when his work had only begun to appear in McClure's Magazine and to attract special attention." – Bennett, A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting, p. 204. Lyon's two books were published in small editions and both are now uncommon. [Reference: Listed in Hubin, Crime Fiction II: A Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-1990].
CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS.
London: Michael Joseph, [1961]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects six stories including "A Long Spoon." According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella, "Consider Her Ways," in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 261].
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo. Cloth. First edition. The precedes the British edition that has textual differences. Runner-up for the 1952 International Fantasy Award. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-199. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 5].
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This precedes the British edition that has textual differences. Runner-up for the 1952 International Fantasy Award. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-199. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 5].
THE JOHN WYNDHAM OMNIBUS
London: Michael Joseph, [1964]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. Collect three novels: THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, THE KRAKEN WAKES and THE CHRYSALIDS. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1296, (1987) 3-412, and (2004) II-1298].
THE KRAKEN WAKES.
London: Michael Joseph, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's fourth science fiction novel, the second using the John Wyndham pseudonym. Invasion of earth by beings from another planet who need to exist under conditions of enormous pressure found deep under the sea. Published later the same year in the U.S. as Out Of The Deeps with textual differences. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-412].
THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS.
London: Michael Joseph, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The U.S. and earlier British editions have textual differences. "A really original scenario; social criticism; good story. Very popular; basis for superior SF film [Village of the Damned]." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-413. "... only slightly short of being a science fiction masterpiece." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1391-94. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-404].
THE OUTWARD URGE.
London: Michael Joseph, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four Troon stories. "A brief, episodic 'family saga' about the near future exploration of space." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 271.
THE SEEDS OF TIME.
London: Michael Joseph, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Wyndham's second collection of short fiction. Collects ten stories. "A likable gathering of SF stories, most of them proficient treatments of fairly obvious themes. Among the most enjoyable are 'Pawley's Peepholes' (1951) and 'Dumb Martian' (1952), well-mannered SF comedies in a very English vein." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 319-320.
TALES OF GOOSEFLESH AND LAUGHTER.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine 182. Paperback original. Collects eleven stories from 1949-1955. Some, but not all, first published in the collection JIZZLE (1954). This is the author's first collection published in the U.S.