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THE KEY TO MIDNIGHT.
New York: Pocket Books, [1979]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The first Leigh Nichols book.
SHADOWFIRES.
[New York: Avon Books, 1987]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The fifth Leigh Nichols book.
SHADOWFIRES.
[New York: Avon Books, 1987]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The fifth Leigh Nichols book.
NIGHT VISIONS 6.
Arlington Hgts: Dark Harvest, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original stories by Ray Garton, F.P. Wilson and Sheri Tepper.
NIGHT VISIONS 6.
Arlington Hgts: Dark Harvest, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies signed by the contributors F. Paul Wilson, Sheri S. Tepper, Ray Garton, introducer Dean R. Koontz, and artist Phil Parks. Original anthology, three stories by Wilson, novellas by Tepper and Garton. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-356.
SLOW DANCER.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second mystery. "Philbrick writes exceptionally well; his prose sparkles." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 632-33.
AURELIUS SMITH-DETECTIVE.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-274 [275-276: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. Collection of twelve mystery stories by the author who penned the first two Spider pulp novels. The Secret Service Smith character is thought by some to be the inspiration for Richard Wentworth/The Spider. While first appearing as a Secret Service agent in his later adventures he leaves the service and becomes a detective based in New York in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes.
AURELIUS SMITH-DETECTIVE.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-274 [275-276: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. Collection of twelve mystery stories by the author who penned the first two Spider pulp novels. The Secret Service Smith character is thought by some to be the inspiration for Richard Wentworth/The Spider. While first appearing as a Secret Service agent in his later adventures he leaves the service and becomes a detective based in New York in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989), 4112. Hubin, p. 726. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 99.
THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-352, original medium blue cloth, spine panel stamped in dark blue. First edition. The publisher's advance "special presentation issue" (so stated on title page and front panel of the jacket), limited to 200 copies (as per publisher's letter laid in). A classic catastrophe novel depicting survival after the earth is struck by the moon. "A superior work." -Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-341. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-517; (1981) 3-666; and (2004) II-1002. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 175-76. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 75. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 154. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 194. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 248. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 178. Reginald 13020.
NELLIE'S PRAYER.
London, Paris & New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, nd [c. 1890-93]. Octavo, [1-24], illustrated by J. Willis Grey, cloth backed boards. A wife gets news her husband is killed in action, delays telling her daughter who prays for his safe return, upon finally telling her the child goes and prays again and her father appears at the door, a mistake being made on the battlefield.
BRIDGES TO SCIENCE FICTION.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, Inc., [1980]. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1-2] 3-168, cloth. First edition. Collects ten original essays, all written specifically for the first J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature held 24-25 February 1979 at the University of California, Riverside, by Gregory Benford, Eric S. Rabkin, Patrick Parrinder, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 9-221.
THE MAN WHO TRIED TO GET AWAY.
London: Collins, 1990. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Signed inscription by Donaldson on the title page. Review slip from the publisher laid in. Third mystery novel by Donaldson using the Stephens pseudonym.
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: A STORY OF CRIME BY...
[Glasgow]: The Detective Story Club Ltd. for Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., nd, [c. 1929]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-254 [255-256], original black boards, front and spine stamped in gold. Later edition. A volume in Collins Detective Story Club series which was the precursor to the Collins Crime Club.
STRANGE ADVENTURES OF A MAGISTRATE.
London: R. A. Everett & Co., Ltd., 1903. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-293 [294-296: ads] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, inserted frontispiece, original pictorial red cloth, front cover stamped in light green, black and white, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. A collection of occult detective stories. "Fourteen connected stories of the weird and supernatural, narrated in the first person, written in a sentimental and unsophisticated manner reminiscent of a generation earlier, with story titles such as 'The Speaker and the Spectre,' 'A Singular Case of Somnambulism,' 'The Ghost in the Violin' and 'Interviewing the Mummies.' A prize for the connoisseur more than the general reader, though not quite as desirable as this publisher's other 1903 title, DACOBRA." - Robert Eldridge. "Series of fourteen episodes of mystery and crime, in which one of the central characters, running through the series, has supernatural powers (which include the ability to give his 'thought-body' visible substance)." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 212. Bleiler (1978), p. 193. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 798.
THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW: THE HISTORY OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS PART ONE. (THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH VOLUME VI).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Provides insight into the evolution of the sequel to the Hobbit-The Fellowship of the Ring.
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[THE LORD OF THE RINGS] THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING [with] THE TWO TOWERS [with] THE RETURN OF THE KING.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1966]. Octavo, three volumes, cloth. First British (and first hardcover) printing of the second edition. Follows the 1965 Ballantine Books text. Comprises THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS and THE RETURN OF THE KING. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-40. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1606, 1607, and 1608. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 76. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 16. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 897-915. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 193-96.
IT'S ALWAYS FOUR O'CLOCK.
New York: Random House, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. W.R. Burnett writing under a pseudonym. Novel of a jazz combo in L.A.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. 4040 copies printed. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
OLD MAN'S BEARD: FIFTEEN DISTURBING TALES. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 400 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Reprint of the edition first published in 1929. New introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects fifteen stories. "... features several fine studies of supernatural malevolence, two of the best being "The Cairn" and "Blind Man's Buff." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.