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THE MIGHTIEST MACHINE.
Providence, R.I. Hadley Publishing Company, [1947]. Octavo, original blue 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. "Intrepid space-farers are plunged into an alternative universe, where they discover ancient Earth-peoples and become embroiled in interplanetary war. Extravagant entertainment in the same rather juvenile vein as E. E. 'Doc' Smith's space epics of the period -- though it displays a better grasp of science and engineering. Campbell's first novel in book form, and perhaps the best of his early space operas." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 237. This space epic remains "not only historically instructive and important, but fascinating to read as well." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1396-1400. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-7.
WHO GOES THERE?: SEVEN TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Octavo, original tan cloth with green lettering to the spine, top edge stained green. Second edition. Signed by Campbell on the front free end paper. The second edition (so stated on the copyright page) with the 1951 movie tie-in dust jacket. Classic collection of stories first published under Campbell's pseudonym, Don A. Stuart, in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION between 1934 and 1938. "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 title story has been filmed twice, the first in 1951 as "The Thing From Another World", one of the classic Science Fiction films of the 1950s (with James Arness in the title role), and by John Carpenter in 1982 as "The Thing." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-211. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 2003-07.
WHO GOES THERE?: SEVEN TALES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Classic collection of stories first published under Campbell's pseudonym, Don A. Stuart, in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION between 1934 and 1938. "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 title story has been filmed twice, the first in 1951 as "The Thing From Another World," one of the classic Science Fiction films of the 1950s (with James Arness in the title role), and by John Carpenter in 1982 as "The Thing." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-211. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 2003-07.
THE WEIRD PICTURE.
Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1905. Octavo, p. [1-10] 1-283 [284: blank] [285-288, adds; 289-90: blank], frontispiece and three other illustrations, original light blue cloth, front stamped in black brown and yellow, spine stamped in gilt. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel centered around a picture depicting the death of Caesar and Pompey. This is also listed in the first Bleiler checklist, however I believe any supernatural element is rationally explained.
NEW WRITINGS IN SF1 with NEW WRITINGS IN SF2 with NEW WRITINGS IN SF3.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [196-1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. editions. Bantam F3245, F3379, F3380. The first three volumes of this important original anthology series. Published as paperbacks in the U.S. Authors include John Rankine, Brian Aldiss, Damien Broderick and two more in volume one; John Rackham, Colin Kapp, Joseph Green and five more in volume two and John Kingston, Keith Roberts, James Schmitz and five more in volume three. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1371.
THE CAVALIER'S CUP.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel featuring Sir Henry Merrivale, an investigator of "impossible" crimes. The last of this series. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 601.
NIGHT AT THE MOCKING WIDOW.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel featuring Sir Henry Merrivale, an investigator of "impossible" crimes. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 612.
NIGHT AT THE MOCKING WIDOW.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel featuring Sir Henry Merrivale, an investigator of "impossible" crimes. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 612.
MY LATE WIVES.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. Hubin, p. 234. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 611.
CAPTAIN CUT-THROAT.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A historical novel set in France in 1805 where Napoleon has assembled his armies to invade England and an assassin is killing his soldiers. Hubin (1994), p. 135.
THE CASE OF THE CONSTANT SUICIDES.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1941]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-296 [297-298: Blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine stamped in light blue, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. A Dr. Fell mystery novel. Hubin, p. 135. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), #299.
THE EIGHT OF SWORDS.
New York, London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-225 [226: ad], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First edition. A Dr. Fell mystery, the third. Hubin, p. 135. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), No. 309.
FIRE BURN!
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. This is a time travel-mystery novel, a detective from the 1950s is transported to London of 1829.
THE FOUR FALSE WEAPONS.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1945]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Detective Novel Classic No. 40. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
THE LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A splendid biography, at once sympathetic and detached, skillful and thorough, as well as strong on the natural gifts Doyle possessed for detective investigation and its transfusion into fictional plots." - Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 4265.
POISON IN JEST.
New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1944]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Thriller Novel Classic No. 23. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. This novel features Patrick Rossiter. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman launched his own digest lines, seeing the writing on the wall for pulp magazines after the war Hillman essentially considered the digests as paperbacks.
THE WITCH OF THE LOW-TIDE.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, [1961]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
THE CONCRETE KIMONO.
New York: Walker and Company, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Garway Trenton novel of intrigue.
ABC FOR BOOK-COLLECTORS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Octavo, cloth. Later printing of the third edition, revised. Useful reference to book collecting with guide to abbreviations used in the trade and definitions of terminology with over 450 entries concerning book collecting and bibliography.
THE AVENGING PICAROON.
London: Frederick Muller, 1955. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Second novel in the Picaroon series. Signed inscription by Cassells to the dedicatee Leo Margulies. Hubin, p. 146.
ENTER THE PICAROON.
London: Frederick Muller, 1954. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first novel in this series, introducing Ludovic Saxon, The Picaroon "gay and swashbuckling buccaneer of crime." Signed inscription by Cassells, an association copy: "To Leo-...Bill Duncan [John Cassells], October 14/54." The Leo is editor and publisher Leo Margulies, who was involved in anthologies, magazines and pulps from the '30s onward. Not in Hubin (1994).
THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1967]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First U.S. edition. Set in a dystopian future where aliens have conquered the Earth. They travel in in three legged vehicles reminiscent of the Martian war machines in H.G. Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS. The aliens control humans by inserting communication devices in their heads. The second book of a trilogy preceded by THE WHITE MOUNTAINS (1967) and followed by THE POOL OF FIRE (1968). And later a fourth book, a prequel, WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME (1988) was published. Basis for a BBC series "The Tripods." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-244.
THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1968]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First U.S. edition. Set in a dystopian future where aliens have conquered the Earth. They travel in in three legged vehicles reminiscent of the Martian war machines in H.G. Well's WAR OF THE WORLDS. The aliens control humans by inserting communication devices in their heads. The final book of a trilogy preceded by THE WHITE MOUNTAINS (1967) and THE CITY OF GOLD AND LEAD (1967). And later a fourth book, a prequel, WHEN THE TRIPODS CAME (1988) was published. Basis for a BBC series "The Tripods." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-244.
SWEENEY'S ISLAND.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY.
[London]: Grayson & Grayson Ltd., [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Christopher on the title page. The author's first SF book. A collection of twenty stories. "At this stage in his career Christopher's narrative craft was nearly mature." "He told stories with pace, suspense, sanity and clarity." - Pederson (ed.): The St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.), pp. 185-87. Many of these stories preview the themes of his later novels.