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FIND MY KILLER.
[New York]: A Signet Book, Published by The New American Library, [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Paperback. Mystery novel by a writer better known for his fantasy and science fiction work.
SHERLOCK HOLMES'S WAR OF THE WORLDS.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Warner Books 76-982. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Manly Wade Wellman on the title page. Collection of short stories relating to how Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Professor Challenger fought the Martian invasion first chronicled in H.G. Wells's WAR OF THE WORLDS.
CAHENA: A DREAM OF THE PAST.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition. Historical fiction concerning the warrior queen Cahena who reigned over the Moors.
THE COMPLETE JOHN THE BALLADEER, Volume 1 and Volume 2.
Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2023. Octavo, two volumes, cloth. First editions. Collects all twenty five stories and novels, and two interviews by Karl Edward Wagner. Introduction by Stephen Jones (volume 1) and Pat LoBrutto (volume 2).
THE HANGING STONES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Wellman on the title page to his book editor, who is also the dedicatee, and with a short line under the dedication by Wellman. The fourth Silver John (John the Balladeer) novel. "John (whose last name is never given) is one of the few truly original series characters in contemporary dark fantasy: a quiet temperate man who has had a taste of the modern world and rejected it in favor of the homely pleasures and superstitions of the rural South ... For the most part ... the stories are successful attempts to work folklore and legends from the Civil War and the American Revolution into dark fantasy narratives ... [In this novel] John thwarts a cult attempting to resuscitate supernatural forces that predate the settling of the country by Native Americans ... [The John stories and novels] crystalize ideas for supernatural fiction that Wellman had been tackling as far back as the 1930s in WEIRD TALES and thus serve as an important bridge between the early modern horror tradition and contemporary dark fantasy." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-384 [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-317].
ISLAND IN THE SKY.
New York: Avalon Books, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. All human survivors on a post-holocaust Earth are confined to cities by the Airmen, a group of aviators who rule the planet from a huge orbiting space station from which they can bomb any city in rebellion.
LONELY VIGILS.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carcosa, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Subscriber's copy with illustrated sheet signed by Wellman and artist George Evans affixed to front free endpaper. Collects twenty occult detective stories featuring Judge Pursuivant or John Thunstone, one featuring Professor Enderby, most first published in WEIRD TALES between 1938 and 1951. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-207.
LONELY VIGILS.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carcosa, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A subscriber's copy with illustrated sheet signed by Wellman and artist George Evans affixed to front free endpaper. Collects twenty occult detective stories featuring Judge Pursuivant or John Thunstone, one featuring Professor Enderby, most first published in WEIRD TALES between 1938 and 1951. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-207].
THE LOST AND THE LURKING.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, boards. First edition. Third Silver John novel. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-317. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1744-48].
THE OLD GODS WAKEN.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first Silver John (John the Balladeer) novel. "John (whose last name is never given) is one of the few truly original series characters in contemporary dark fantasy: a quiet temperate man who has had a taste of the modern world and rejected it in favor of the homely pleasures and superstitions of the rural South ... For the most part ... the stories are successful attempts to work folklore and legends from the Civil War and the American Revolution into dark fantasy narratives ... [In this novel] John thwarts a cult attempting to resuscitate supernatural forces that predate the settling of the country by Native Americans ... [The John stories and novels] crystalize ideas for supernatural fiction that Wellman had been tackling as far back as the 1930s in WEIRD TALES and thus serve as an important bridge between the early modern horror tradition and contemporary dark fantasy." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-384 [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-317. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1744-48. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-221].
THE SCHOOL OF DARKNESS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. A John Thunstone novel. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-318].
SELECTED STORIES OF MANLY WADE WELLMAN VOLUMES 1 through 5: THIRD CRY TO LEGBA AND OTHER INVOCATIONS, THE JOHN THUNSTONE & LEE COBBETT STORIES (2000) [with] THE DEVIL IS NOT MOCKED AND OTHER WARNINGS (2001) [with] FEARFUL ROCK AND OTHER PRECARIOUS LOCALES (2001) [with] SIN'S DOORWAY AND OTHER OMINOUS ENTRANCES (2003) [with] OWLS HOOT IN THE DAYTIME AND OTHER OMENS (2003). Edited by John Pelan.
San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2000-2003. Octavo, imitation leather. First editions. Collects 101 stories from pulps with introductions by John Pelan, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, David Drake and Karl Edward Wagner, and afterwod in volume five by Gerald W. Page.
SOJARR OF TITAN.
New York: Crestwood Publishing, n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels No. 11. Paperback original, digest size format. The author's first SF novel, preceded by two booklets printing short fiction.
SOJARR OF TITAN.
New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels #11. Signed inscription by Wellman on the title page: "Good luck / John! / Manly Wade Wellman / Jan 1, 1977." Digest size format. The author's first SF novel, preceded by two booklets printing short fiction. [Reference: Reginald 14996].
SOJARR OF TITAN.
New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels No. 11. Paperback original, digest size format. The author's first SF novel, preceded by two booklets printing short fiction. Space adventure set on Saturn's moon, Titan.
THE VALLEY SO LOW: SOUTHERN MOUNTAIN STORIES. Edited, with an introduction, by Karl Edward Wagner.
New York: Doubleday, 1987. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-three previously uncollected stories some of which include John the Balladeer and John Thunstone. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-265].
WHO FEARS THE DEVIL?
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Wellman on the front free end paper. A collection of short fiction featuring Silver John, the wandering ballad-singer of the Southern mountains. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-316. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #1671].
FIND MY KILLER.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Locked room mystery with hard boiled action. The author's first hardcover mystery novel. [Reference: Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 1902. Hubin, p. 849. ].