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THE GHOST HOUSE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. Ocatvo, boards. First U.S. edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. A mystery novel involving heroin smuggling and an alleged haunted house, which in the end is rationalized. First published in 1940, according to the copyright page this is a "completely rewritten version." This edition is would be the first American edition.
THE MAUSOLEUM KEY.
New York: Gateway Books, 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-255 [256: blank], original grayish-green cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut. First edition. The author's first mystery novel. Murder mystery concerning a young police reporter. Daniels was a long time pulp writer including penning adventures of the characters The Phantom Detective and The Black Bat. He also wrote for radio and television. [Reference: Hubin, p. 214].
THE BLACK BAT OMNIBUS VOLUMES 1-6.
Boston: Altus Press, 2010-2016. Octavo, six volumes, pictorial wrappers. First editions. Collect the first 18 stories which feature the "Black Bat" crime fighter which appeared in Black Book Detective pulp, July 1939 - May 1942. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59].
THE ATLANTIC CITY MURDER MYSTERY.
New York: The Macaulay Company, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-255 [256: blank], original reddish-orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Private investigator gets involved in the murder of a prominent Atlantic City real estate developer. [Reference: Hubin, p. 333].
ZARLAH THE MARTIAN.
New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, [1909]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-194 [note: title leaf is a cancel tipped in on a stub], inserted frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Visual communication is established with an advanced civilization on Mars and a human spirit is scientifically transferred into the body of one of the Martian inhabitants. [Reference: Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 956. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 372. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 99. Locke, Voyages in Space 94. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 473. Kopp 825. Not in Lewis (1984) or Sargent (1988). Bleiler (1978), p. 88. Reginald 06417. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 G-544. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1509].
LOST ISLAND.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-212 [213-214], oringal green cloth, front and spine stamped in blue. First edition. Takes place on a small Polynesian island during WW II where a airstrip is to be built.
HOODOO SHIP.
London: Hollis And Carter Ltd, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. From the jacket copy: "A thrilling yarn of the Merchant Service, packed with breathless action. It tells the story of Teddy Hunter, who sailed on an old ship that had an evil reputation..."
THE NAKED AND THE DEAD.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart and Company, Inc., [1948]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. A novel of WW II centered on a combat platoon in the pacific. Basis for the 1958 feature film of the same name.
BOTANY BAY.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-374 [375-376], jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth, blue-green cloth, front and spine stamped in silver, top edge stained red, map end papers. First edition. Historical novel about the Australian penal colony. Filmed in 1953 with Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina.
BOTANY BAY.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1-3] 4-374 [375-376], jacket illustration by N. C. Wyeth, blue-green cloth, front and spine stamped in silver, top edge stained red, map end papers. First edition. Historical novel about the Australian penal colony. Filmed in 1953 with Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina.
NO MORE GAS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-320, original blue cloth, front and spine silver, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Story of a family in Tahiti.
MIDNIGHT WATER.
New York: E. P. Dutton, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's first novel. Mystery with a Florida setting.
AGENT OF CHAOS.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First hardcover edition.
THE IRON DREAM.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Text offset from that of the 1972 Avon edition. New introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. 1972 Nebula and National Book Award nominee. A alternate world fantasy in which the novel "Lord of the Swastika" is written by science fiction author Adolf Hitler who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. "We are forced, in so far as we can continue to read the book seriously, to think, not about Adolf Hitler and his historic crimes--Hitler is simply the distancing medium--but to think about ourselves: our moral assumptions, our ideas of heroism, our desires to, lead or to be led, our righteous wars. What Spinrad is trying to tell us is that it is happening here." Ursala K. Le Guin, Science Fiction Studies, Volume 1, Part 1, Spring 1973. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1060. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1063-67].
LITTLE HEROES.
New York: Bantam, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
THE MEN IN THE JUNGLE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third (and first hardcover) book. "A crook and his consorts hightail it from the asteroid belt in search of another world to exploit. They find an oppressed planet ruled by cannibalistic sadists and, willy nilly, they become its liberators. Dark, violent, crude, sexy: a "dangerous vision" of the American New Wave type." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 233.
THE MEN IN THE JUNGLE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's third (and first hardcover) book. "A crook and his consorts hightail it from the asteroid belt in search of another world to exploit. They find an oppressed planet ruled by cannibalistic sadists and, willy nilly, they become its liberators. Dark, violent, crude, sexy: a "dangerous vision" of the American New Wave type." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 233.
THE MEN IN THE JUNGLE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Publisher's review slip laid in. The author's third (and first hardcover) book. "A crook and his consorts hightail it from the asteroid belt in search of another world to exploit. They find an oppressed planet ruled by cannibalistic sadists and, willy nilly, they become its liberators. Dark, violent, crude, sexy: a "dangerous vision" of the American New Wave type." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 233.
SONGS FROM THE STARS.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "An ecologically sound, low-tech society has arisen in America in the aftermath of a nuclear war. However, there are still 'black scientists' over them thar hills, who plan to relaunch a space shuttle and retrieve long-lost knowledge from an orbital station." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 335. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-529. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 315. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 403].
THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The first-person narrative of the captain of the 'void ship' Dragon Zephyr, which leaps the light years with ease by means of its special orgasmic drive. A science-fictional fantasy about the ultimate phallic spacecraft. As is usual with Spinrad, there's a great deal of floridly written sex -- but this is perhaps his best novel since BUG JACK BARRON." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 404. "Very clever and written with much verve." - Brian Stableford. 1983 Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1064].