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VARNEY THE VAMPIRE OR THE FEAST OF BLOOD...
London: Printed and Published by E. Lloyd, 12, Salisbury-Square, fleet-Street, n.d., [1847]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-584 577-584 593-868 [note: issue 74 is misnumbered issue 73 and the pagination of number 73 is duplicated], printed in double columns, numerous woodcut illustratioins, nineteenth-century three-quarter brown polished calf and marbled boards. First edition. The two parts numbered 73 are present, but part 74, pp. 585-592, chapters CXXVI-CXXVII, is missing. A lurid penny dreadful published initially as a serial in 109 weekly issues, 1845-1847, and here as a book in 1847. This long novel (864 double-column pages; 220 chapters) was a major influence on later vampire fiction. It includes many of the now standard vampire tropes and it is also the first example of the "sympathetic vampire," a vampire who despises his condition but is nonetheless a slave to it. "The first appearance of the vampire Sir Francis Varney marks a lurid achievement of the horrific; his tinlike eyes, taloned hands, and terrifying teeth are calculated to elicit shudders and revulsion. His victimization of young lovelies places him in line with Stoker's DRACULA and a host of other vampires whose intentions are undeniably sexual ... A pulp classic no aficionado of horror fiction can ignore" (Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV). "... unquestionably the most famous of the Lloyd bloods ... A striking example of low-level popular fiction for the working classes (and adolescents) ...." (Bleiler). [Reference: Baron, ed., Fantasy and Horror (1999) 1-132. Baron, ed., Horror Literature 2-87. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1629. Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 543. Tymn, ed., Horror Literature 2-81. Bleiler (1978), p. 172. Reginald 14580].
THE JUDAH LION CONTRACT.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2608. Paperback original. A Joe Gall spy thriller. Joe Gall is a ruthless free-lancer called "The Nullifer."
THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY.
Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-313 [314: colophon] [315-316: blank], jacket and frontis illustration by John Newton Howitt, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Author's first mystery novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 60].
THIS FICTION BUSINESS.
New York: Covici-Friede, Publishers, 1929. Octavo, cloth. Second edition, enlarged. From the front cover blurb; "...to the writer who has no such exalted dignity at stake and frankly wishes to make a comfortable living out of fiction writing, Mr. Bedford-Jones discloses some of the priceless secrets of the trade, gathered from extensive and highly successful practical experience." The author's nickname was "King of the Pulps," he wrote hundreds of novels and short stories. He worked across all genres.
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN ...
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "...the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86].
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN.
[Bath]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, Tim Powers (after word), K.W. Jeter (after word) and Ferret (illustrator). "...the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-56, Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-33, Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #86].
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN.
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. "...the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86].
HOMUNCULUS ...
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Limited to 1010 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, introducer Keith Roberts, and artist Ferret. This issue adds "A Postscript to Homunculus" by William Hastings (a Blaylock pen name) and "A Note on Mr. Hastings' Postscript" by Blaylock, pages 245-257. Winner of the 1986 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-134. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-39. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-35].
HOMUNCULUS.
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered and signed copies. Signed by Blaylock, Keith Roberts (introduction), and Ferret (artist). 1986 Philip K. Dick award winner. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-57, Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-35].
HOMUNCULUS.
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "A tangle of mildly sinister misadventures in Victorian London, with shades of Dickens, Sax Rohmer and Rider Haggard." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-35. Philip K Dick award winner, 1986. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-57].
LAND OF DREAMS.
New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-36].
THE LAST COIN.
[Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1988.]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, author of the introduction Lucius Shepard, and artist Dennis Loughner. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-40. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-37].
LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, illustrations by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. 4015 copies printed. Sequel to HOMUNCULUS (1986), a steampunk novel set in a Dickensian nineteenth-century London. "Blaylock returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel HOMUNCULUS in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure." - Publisher's Weekly. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-134].
LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Sequel to HOMUNCULUS (1986). "Blaylock returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel Homunculus in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure." - Publisher's Weekly. Steampunk.
LORD KELVIN'S MACHINE.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, [1992]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Sequel to HOMUNCULUS (1986). "Blaylock returns to the Victorian setting of his award-winning novel Homunculus in this tale of obsessive grief, time travel, mad scientists and gentlemanly adventure." - Publisher's Weekly. Steampunk.
THE MAGIC SPECTACLES.
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Trade issue.
THIRTEEN PHANTASMS.
Cambridge: Edgewood Press, 2000. Octavo, First edition. Collects sixteen stories, including the World Fantasy Award-winning title story, "The Pink of Fading Neon," "Paper Dragons," "The Shadow on the Doorstep, and others.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES FIVE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects six stories by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Samuel R. Delany and Theodore Sturgeon, and two articles by Darko Suvin and Alexei Panshin. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364].
NEBULA AWARD STORIES FIVE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects six stories by Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Larry Niven, Samuel R. Delany and Theodore Sturgeon, and two articles by Darko Suvin and Alexei Panshin. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364].
THE DUPLICATED MAN.
New York: Avalon Books, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-44].
THE ISSUE AT HAND: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE SCIENCE FICTION by William Atheling, Jr. [pseudonym].
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., [1974]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Entertaining essays on American pulp SF 1952-1963. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-13].
MORE ISSUES AT HAND: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY MAGAZINE SCIENCE FICTION by William Atheling, Jr. [pseudonym].
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., [1974]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Entertaining essays on American SF here focused on the SF novel. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-14].
BLACK EASTER/THE DAY AFTER JUDGMENT.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Chronologically BLACK EASTER and THE DAY AFTER JUDGMENT comprise the second part of the "After Such Knowledge" trilogy. Preceded by DOCTOR MIRABALIS and followed by A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. Introduction by David Hartwell. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-38. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 83. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 41. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 122-28. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 233-37. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 52-3. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-42].
A CASE OF CONSCIENCE ...
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1958]. Octavo, original green wrappers printed in black. Advance copy (uncorrected proof) of the first British edition. Proof has "First published in mcmlviii" instead of "First published in mcmlix" on copyright page. A novel expanded from a 1953 novella of the same title. "A Jesuit priest visits the 'unfallen' planet Lithia, where he solves a biological riddle and wrestles with his conscience. A thoughtful and entertaining work, with a range of intellectual reference unusual for the American SF of its day -- one of the masterpieces of 1950s SF, and Blish's best book." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 59. "A rich, ambiguous, deep-cutting probe into the most ultimate of concerns." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-136. The final part of the "After Such Knowledge" trilogy. Winner of the 1959 Hugo award for best novel. [Reference: Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 26. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 303-07].
CITIES IN FLIGHT.
Woodstock & New York: The Overlook Press, [2000]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First trade hardcover edition. New introduction by Betty Ballantine, afterword by Richard D. Mullen. This omnibus preceded by the SFBC edition (1973). Omnibus edition of: THEY SHALL HAVE STARS, A LIFE FOR THE STARS, EARTHMAN, COME HOME and THE TRIUMPH OF TIME. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) - 3-22. Currey: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, p. 40].