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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.
INVADERS FROM THE INFINITE.
Reading, Penna: Fantasy Press, [1961]. Octavo, boards. 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.
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.
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.
THE MOON IS HELL!.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First binding (purple cloth), trade issue. Collects two novellas. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-139.
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.
MEN, WOMEN AND RATTLESNAKES.
New York: William Godwin, Inc., 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-248, original greenish-gray cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. While not a horror novel per se, Collier’s first novel is a bizarre, grotesque account of small-town life, calling it strange book is an understatement. Written in carefully crafted, matter-of-fact prose, Collier’s novel is account of everyday life in the isolated rural community of Menham. The primary occupations of the farmers and their wives are drinking and having illicit sex. The chapter titles themselves highlight the book’s lurid content, such as “A Man’s Best Friend is His Whiskey Glass,” “A Secret Sexual Pleasure,” “Arthur Moore Improves on Beating One’s Wife,” and “Alice’s Secret for Fondling.” The book is oddly humorous at times, and to be sure, some of the narrative situations are about as sophisticated as a typical shaggy dog story. Other aspects of the book however, are genuinely jarring in the context of Collier’s relaxed prose style and overall light-touch. Helen Hummer, a middle-aged virgin spinster who hates men, adopts a male infant from an orphanage, names him Henrietta, and raises him as a girl, beating him so severely that the child grows into an idiot youth whose only friend is a tree. Arthur Moore, a farmer who sees women as nothing more than “living latrines,” raises a brood of rattlesnakes in secret and dispatches them to kill neighbors whom he finds offensive. Collier’s characters are definitely comedic rustics, but much of the book’s dry humor is rooted in cruelty and rampant misogyny. As one might imagine, when Helen Hummer finally runs afoul of Arthur Moore, the resulting climax scene is straight out of a Jim Thompson novel. This is a novel that does not fit exactly into the horror genre or a straight noir (or it seems any other), it reads like a gonzo cross between television's Twin Peaks and Anderson's WINESBERG, OHIO.
THE DIARY OF A RAPIST.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
MRS. BRIDGE.
[New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Dell D324. The author's first novel which centers on an upper middle class family between the wars, set in Kansas City.
"333": A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SCIENCE-FANTASY NOVEL.
Providence, Rhode Island: The Grandon Company, 1953. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. An annotated checklist of science fiction and fantasy novels considered by the compilers to be the best published through 1950. Emphasis is on American fiction and the selection offers an overview of those works sought by the science-fantasy enthusiast of the 1950s. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 60.
"333": A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SCIENCE-FANTASY NOVEL.
Providence, Rhode Island: The Grandon Company, 1953. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. An annotated checklist of science fiction and fantasy novels considered by the compilers to be the best published through 1950. Emphasis is on American fiction and the selection offers an overview of those works sought by the science-fantasy enthusiast of the 1950s. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 60.
GANGLAND'S DOOM: THE SHADOW OF THE PULPS.
N.p. Robert Weinberg Publisher, 1974. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pictorial wrappers, original paperbound booklet. Signed inscription on the front cover by Walter Gibson, author the Shadow novels (also signed as Maxwell Grant).
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. Collects fourteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, cover and illustrations by Edd Cartier, pictorial wrappers. Collects fourteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1948. Large octavo, cover and illustrations by Edd Cartier, pictorial wrappers. Collects fourteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds.
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.
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. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
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. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Plagian Siphon" by Jack Vance. Also fiction by Richard Matheson, Robert Moore Williams, Dallas Ross (pseudonym for Mack Reynolds) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Plagian Siphon" by Jack Vance. Also fiction by Richard Matheson, Robert Moore Williams, Dallas Ross (pseudonym for Mack Reynolds) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. An important issue. Notable for "The Alien Machine" by Raymond F. Jones, basis for the novel and later film "THIS ISLAND EARTH." Also includes "Sea Kings of Mars" by Leigh Brackett (published later as THE SWORD OF RHIANNON). Fiction by John D. MacDonald, "Like a Keepsake," Henry Kuttner, Murray Leinster, Fredric Brown, James Blish and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine. An important issue. Notable for "The Alien Machine" by Raymond F. Jones, basis for the novel and later film "THIS ISLAND EARTH." Also includes "Sea Kings of Mars" by Leigh Brackett (published later as THE SWORD OF RHIANNON). Fiction by John D. MacDonald, "Like a Keepsake," Henry Kuttner, Murray Leinster, Fredric Brown, James Blish and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
STARTLING STORIES.
Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by John D. MacDonald, Arthur C. Clarke, L. Ron Hubbard writing as Rene Lafayette, Henry Kuttner and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.