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LIFE EVERLASTING.
Newark, New Jersey: The Avalon Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. This copy number 9. Associational copy, warmly inscribed and signed by Keller under the author's photograph frontispiece to Robert A. (Bob) Madle, noted fan, dealer and a founder of First Fandom. Madle would publish Keller's book THE SOLITARY HUNTER AND THE ABYSS in the next year. The only book published by The Avalon Company. The edition totaled approximately 1000 copies of which 300 were later destroyed by water while in storage. Collects the short novel "Life Everlasting" and eleven short stories, most first published in the pulps, including WEIRD TALES, during the 1930s. Includes a 25-page "Introduction" by Sam Moskowitz. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-586. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-113. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 935. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 571].
THE SOLITARY HUNTERS AND THE ABYSS: TWO FANTASTIC NOVELS.
Philadelphia: New Era Publishers, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Keller on the front free end paper. "Two novellas, the first a 1934 WEIRD TALES serial about monstrous insects, the second an interesting horror/SF story about the pollution of New York's water supply by a drug that obliterates the inhibitions of civilization." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-85. The only book published by New Era Publishers. 2000 copies were printed. 1000 copies were bound and eventually most copies circulated, although some were damp marked while in storage. The 1000 sets of unbound sheets were junked by the printer.