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PRENTEN VAN ALBERT HAHN, SR.: EEN KEUZE UIT ZIJN WERK...
Amsterdam: H. J. W. Becht, 1928. Large octavo. pp. [1-12] 136 illustrations on the rectos of 135 numbered pages, [1-22 notes on the plate] [last leaf blank], original green cloth, front stamped in black and gold, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Prenten (Prints) by Albert Hahn collected by his son, published in the Netherlands. Born in Groeningen, Netherlands in 1877, Albert Hahn was an ardent Socialist who worked as a political cartoonist, book illustrator and commercial artist from 1902 until his death of tuberculosis at age 41 in August of 1918. His main focus was political cartooning, doing most of his work in the weekly Socialist newspaper "De Notenkraker" ("The Nutcracker"). Eschewing a "cartoonie" style for the more European aesthetic based on graphic design, he reached his peak in terms of his political cartoons during World War One. Though Hahn did attempt to be as neutral as The Netherlands was during this war, he did more anti-Kaiser/anti-German cartoons than those of his view of the impact of the war upon humanity as a whole. During his life, he only had one small portfolio published in 1905, this is a posthumous volume published in 1928 and edited by his son, Albert Hahn Jr., who himself was a renown cartoonist and historian of cartooning and caricature. This collection features 134 pages of drawings comprising 138 plates, of which 6 are in color the rest in black and white. The vast majority are political cartoons. 20 pages of notes on the plates at the end of the illustrations.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "New Bodies For Old" by Jack Vance, a Chateau d'If story, "Battling Bolto" by L. Ron Hubbard, "A Walk in the Dark" by Arthur C. Clarke, and "As You Were" by Henry Kuttner.
CONAN CHRONICLES: CONAN THE INVINCIBLE, CONAN THE DEFENDER, CONAN THE UNCONQUERED.
New York: TOR, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. Collects CONAN THE INVINCIBLE (1982), CONAN THE DEFENDER (1982), CONAN THE UNCONQUERED (1983).
THE FIRES OF HEAVEN.
New York: TOR Fantasy, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fifth volume in "The Wheel of Time" series. "When complete, the sequence will almost certainly constitute one of the major epic narratives of modern fantasy." - Clute, Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997). See - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-201.
H. P. LOVECRAFT HIS LIFE, HIS WORK.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, 1979. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Biographical essay by Faig and a chronology of Lovecraft's life.
THE PARENTS OF HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Essay written for the centennial of Lovecraft's birth.
A MATTER OF POLICY.
London: Quality Press Ltd, 1952. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. Published in the U. S. as MESSAGE FROM A CORPSE. Hubin, p. 570.
THE HOUSE OF MANY WORLDS.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Merwin. Author's first SF novel. Inscribed books by Merwin are uncommon, this seems to be a presentation copy to a friend.
THE WHITE WIDOWS.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, illustration by Daniel Schwartz, boards. First edition. Science fiction novel which first appeared in Startling Stories.
THE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF WALTER M. MILLER, JR.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Excellent introduction by David Samuelson.
A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ ...
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. 1961 Hugo award winner. "600 years after an atomic deluge the Age of Simplification reigns supreme, but a development to new civilization follows." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160. "Named by many as best SF novel of the modern period." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-287. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-125 and (2004) II-766. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 30. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 288-93.
CONDITIONALLY HUMAN.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects three short novels including the Hugo winner "The Darfsteller." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-126.
THE PARAFAITH WAR.
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
THE NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE.
New York: Walker, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE 120-HOUR CLOCK.
New York: Walker, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
NYCTALOPS.
Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, January - February 1975. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Well-regarded amateur journal devoted to the study of weird fiction, especially the work of H. P. Lovecraft and members of the Lovecraft circle. This issue devoted to Lovecraft and the Mythos.
NYCTALOPS.
Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, January - February 1975. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Well-regarded amateur journal devoted to the study of weird fiction, especially the work of H. P. Lovecraft and members of the Lovecraft circle. This issue devoted to Lovecraft and the Mythos.
NYCTALOPS.
Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, March 1980. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Well-regarded amateur journal devoted to the study of weird fiction, especially the work of H. P. Lovecraft and members of the Lovecraft circle.
NYCTALOPS.
Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, July 1974. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Well-regarded amateur journal devoted to the study of weird fiction, especially the work of H. P. Lovecraft and members of the Lovecraft circle. This issue devoted to Lovecraft and the Mythos.
NYCTALOPS.
Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, May 1977. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Well-regarded amateur journal devoted to the study of weird fiction, especially the work of H. P. Lovecraft and members of the Lovecraft circle. This issue includes with articles on H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley and other material.
THE CARDBOARD GOD.
Brownwood, Texas: Published by Tevis Clyde Smith, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Signed inscription by Smith to Robert Briney. Story collection set in Mexico involving Toltec-Chichimec people, Mixcoatl, Tezcatlipoca, and other Aztec deities.
IMAGES OUT OF THE SKY.
Brownwood, Texas: Published by Tevis Clyde Smith, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Signed inscription by Smith to Robert Briney. One of the poems in this collection memorializes Robert E. Howard, another is dedicated to him.
RAIN IN THE DOORWAY ...
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-304 [305-308] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], illustrations by Herbert Roese, original pictorial salmon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained light orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. "RAIN IN THE DOORWAY is Smith's other masterwork. Snatched into an adjacent dimension where all women are willing, work is a joke, and booze flows like water, Mr. Hector Owen finds himself partner in a firm reminiscent of the establishment run by the Marx Brothers in The Big Store (1941). Accidentally forced to return to our own sorrowful, rain-drenched world, Mr. Owen manages to retain the company of his new girlfriend, who promises to brighten even this vale of tears." - Paul Di Filippo in Pringle, ed., St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 532-33. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-277. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-325. Bleiler (1978), p. 182. Reginald 13389.
SKIN AND BONES.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-306 [307-308: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], illustrations by Herbert Roese, original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed. First edition. An X-ray accident causes protagonist to appear unpredictably as a skeleton. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-326. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1500. Bleiler (1978), p. 182. Reginald 13390.
TOPPER: AN IMPROBABLE ADVENTURE.
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-292, jacket illustration by C.V. Farrow, original brick red cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. The first Cosmo Topper adventure. Mired in his middle class life Cosmo Topper purchases a used car, in which George and Marion Kerby were driving when they died in an accident. In visiting the spot of the crash the ghosts of the Kerby's appear and "torment" Topper in a farcical manner (from an online entry by David Langford on Thorne Smith). Basis for the 1937 film starring Cary Grant and Constance Bennett as the Kerby's and Roland Young as Topper.