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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. Octavo, [1-9] 10-253 [254: Ads], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue. First edition. The first Richard Hannay novel. Filmed memorably by Alfred Hitchcock. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), p. 81. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Hubin, p. 114. McCormick and Fletcher, Spy Fiction: A Connoisseur's Guide, pp. 40-41. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.), p. 10.
ADVENTURERS ALL...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Includes three novels, HUNTINGTONTOWER, JOHN McNAB and THE THREE HOSTAGES. The last of the three is a Richard Hannay novel.
THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES ...
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-ix] x [xi] xii-xiv [1-3] 4-324 [1-2] 3 [4]: ads [note: first leaf is a blank] + 64-page publisher's catalogue dated "12/11" at bottom of page 64 inserted at rear, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver and gold. First edition. Collects ten stories and ten poems. Two of the stories, "Space" and "The Grove of Ashtaroth," are "among Buchan's best work" - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 292. The UK edition includes three stories ("Streams of Water in the South," "The Riding of the Ninemileburn," and "The Rime of True Thomas") and two poems that were omitted from the later U.S. edition that added a story, "Fountainblue," not included in this UK edition. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-38. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 62. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 56-7. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-45. Bleiler (1978), p. 33. Reginald 02092.
THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES.
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1912. Octavo, p. [1-4: blank] [i-ix] x-xii [1-3] 4-298 [299-304: blank], original brownish-green cloth, stamped in dark brown and silver to front cover, stamped in dark brown to spine. First U.S. edition. Story collection. This copy stamped "sample copy" on the title page. This is a variant cloth binding of brownish-green as opposed to the usually observed blue cloth, no priority established. The U.S. edition collects eight stories and a poem. The U.K. edition collected 10 stories and 10 poems, the U.S. edition drops the stories "Streams of Water in the South," "The Riding of the Ninemileburn," and "The Rime of True Thomas" and adds the story "Fountainblue" as well as dropping two of the poems. Two of the stories included here "Space" and " The Grove of Ashtoroth" are considered by Bleiler in his Guide to Supernatural Fiction (#292) "among Buchan's very best work."
MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xlviii [xlix-xlx] 1-276 [277] [278: blank], jacket painting by Rockwell Kent, original light green flecked cloth, front and spine stamped in dark green and red, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First U. S. edition. Published in the U. K. as SICK HEART RIVER (1941). The last adventure of Sir Edward Leithen, who leaves London and comes to America to search for a missing banker. The trail leads to Canada and the Artic Circle. Long introduction by Howard Swiggett of which Kirkus Review writes - "...a tribute to Buchan's contribution to literature, an analysis of the stories and their sources, and enough outline of character and plots to give the reader, newcomes to Buchan's work, not only thorough comprehension of Mountain Meadow, but the urge to go back to the earlier books." Hubin, p. 114.
WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU AND OTHER TALES OF UNEASE. Introductionby Nicholas Royle.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Burke's first collection entirely devoted to his "uneasy" tales. Collects twenty-two stories published, with one exception, between 1952 and 1998. The title story was written for this collection and appears here for the first time.
WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU AND OTHER TALES OF UNEASE. Introductionby Nicholas Royle.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Burke's first collection entirely devoted to his "uneasy" tales. Collects twenty-two stories published, with one exception, between 1952 and 1998. The title story was written for this collection and appears here for the first time.
DAVID INNES OF PELLUCIDAR. PICTURIZED FROM THE NOVELS BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS. 269 PICTURES BY JOHN COLEMAN BURROUGHS.
Kansas City, Missouri: House of Greystoke, [1965]. 269 illustrations by John Coleman Burroughs, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Consists of J.C. Burroughs pen and ink drawings of ERB characters and prints the comic strip "David Innes of Pellucidar: Adventures At the Earth's Core." The first 12 pages were originally published in Hi-Spot comics #2 (1940). The full story was not published. The two six page strips at the end of this book was a re-working of the original strip and never published. All material in black and white.
ISLANDS OF SPACE.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding of blue cloth with spine panel stamped in gold. A space opera featuring Arcot, Morey and Wade and their starship, the Ancient Mariner. The novel first appeared in AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY, Spring 1931. Three stories featuring Arcot, Morey and Wade, collected as THE BLACK STAR PASSES, preceded this novel, and it was followed by another novel, INVADERS FROM THE INFINITE, the final chronicle of their interstellar adventures. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years 189. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
THE MOON IS HELL!
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects two short novels; the title novel which is SF, and "The Elder Gods," a fantasy first published in UNKNOWN in 1939 under the Don A. Stuart pseudonym. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-139. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 339. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1444-48.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 1952. Large octavo, illustrations by Edd Cartier, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects thirteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 340.
THE BLACK STAR PASSES.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. Space opera. Dust jacket art by Binkley. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
THE BLACK STAR PASSES.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. Space opera. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
THE BLACK STAR PASSES.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Campbell on an inserted limitation leaf. Space opera. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
THE BLACK STAR PASSES.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Campbell on an inserted limitation leaf. Space opera. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
CLOAK OF AESIR.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction under the "Don A. Stuart pseudonym". "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13. "The Machine" is an early AI story. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
CLOAK OF AESIR.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of an undetermined number of signed subscriber copies with Campbell's signature on the front free end paper. Collection of stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction under the Don A. Stuart pseudonym. "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13.
CLOAK OF AESIR.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction under the Don A. Stuart pseudonym. "These short stories are much better than the author's novel-length space operas, and constitute a fascinating body of work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-13.
THE INCREDIBLE PLANET.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1949. Octavo, purple cloth, lettering stamped in gold on spine. First edition. One of 500 copies with inserted limitation leaf, this being one of 250 numbered copies actually signed by Campbell (he only signed 250 of the 500 with the limitation sheet). A continuation of adventures chronicled in The Mightiest Machine (1947). See Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7. In 333.
THE INCREDIBLE PLANET.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1949. Octavo, purple cloth, lettering stamped in gold on spine. First edition. One of 500 copies with inserted limitation leaf, this being one of 250 numbered copies not signed by Campbell (he only signed 250 of the 500 with the limitation sheet). A continuation of adventures chronicled in The Mightiest Machine (1947). See Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7. In 333.
INVADERS FROM THE INFINITE.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 112 copies signed by Campbell. This issue, prepared for Fantasy Press subscribers, has the standard Fantasy Press limitation notice "... limited to 3000 copies of which 300 are numbered and autographed," which here is erroneous. These copies were not numbered by the publisher. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-12.
ISLANDS OF SPACE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1956. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 50 copies signed by Campbell on an inserted plate. The limitation leaf calls for 500 autographed copies, but only fifty were actually signed. An Arcot, Wade and Morley space adventure. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2- 12.
ISLANDS OF SPACE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1956. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding of blue cloth with spine panel stamped in gold. Space opera, an Arcot, Wade and Morley adventure. The novel first appeared in AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY, Spring 1931. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years 189. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
ISLANDS OF SPACE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1956. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding of blue cloth with spine panel stamped in gold. Space opera, an Arcot, Wade and Morley adventure. The novel first appeared in AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY, Spring 1931. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years 189. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
THE MIGHTIEST MACHINE.
Providence, R.I. Hadley Publishing Company, [1947]. Octavo, original red pebbled cloth (no priority), spine stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first SF book. Early science fiction novel of with a galactic sweep, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1934. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7.