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SLAYGROUND.
New York: Random House, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Parker novel.
THE SEARCH FOR TABATHA CARR.
New York: Scribners, 1960. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
EARTHBOUND.
New York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1982. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
THE BLOODY MEDALLION.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1959. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
JACK VANCE: SCIENCE FICTION STYLIST.
Wabash, Indiana: Robert and Juanita Coulson, 1965. Wrappers. First edition. Printed wrappers (8 1/2 x 11 format). Bibliography compiled by Robert Briney.
COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, printed stiff wrappers. First edition. 1030 copies printed. This collection of 67 poems "...established Tierney (b. 1936) as one of the leading weird poets of his his generation. [It] contains a variety of poems (many of them sonnets) displaying Tierney's absorption of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others; some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce." - Joshi, Arkham 154. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43.
COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, printed stiff wrappers. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy signed by Tierney to Dick (Richard) Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society, dated in the year of publication. P1030 copies printed. This collection of 67 poems "...established Tierney (b. 1936) as one of the leading weird poets of his his generation. [It] contains a variety of poems (many of them sonnets) displaying Tierney's absorption of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others; some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce." - Joshi, Arkham 154. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43.
COLLECTED POEMS: NIGHTMARES AND VISIONS ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, illustrations by Jason Van Hollander, printed wrappers. First edition. 1030 copies printed. This collection of 67 poems "established Tierney (b. 1936) as one of the leading weird poets of his his generation ... [It] contains a variety of poems (many of them sonnets) displaying Tierney's absorption of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others; some of the poems feature the misanthropic bitterness of Ambrose Bierce." - Joshi, Arkham 154. "His five translations from Charles Baudelaire are important." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 8-43.
DEADLY EDGE.
New York: Random House, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Westlake with an RS in parentheses on the title page. A Parker novel. "The Parker series is one of the most evenly written in crime fiction; the sixteen novels are consistently well done and readable. ...and Deadly Edge a particularly fine example" - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights: The Afficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 749-51.
DEADLY EDGE.
New York: Random House, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Parker novel. "The Parker series is one of the most evenly written in crime fiction; the sixteen novels are consistently well done and readable. ...and Deadly Edge a particularly fine example" - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights: The Afficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 749-51.
THE BLACKBIRD.
[New York]: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First edition, variant with purple top edge stain. Third Alan Grofield novel.
THE DAME.
New York: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second Alan Grofield novel.
LEMONS NEVER LIE.
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, [1971]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Westlake on the title page as "Richard Stark / (aka Don Westlake)". The fourth Alan Grofield novel. "Grofield seems a slightly different character in his solo novels, struggling to perform the role of protagonist and not sidekick; but the two personas converge in the Parker-like Lemons Never Lie." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights: The Afficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 749-51.
THE OUTFIT.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1981. Wrappers. First hardcover edition. The third Parker story to be written. Filmed in 1973, directed by John Flynn, starring Robert Duvall and Robert Ryan. Originally a 1963 Berkeley paperback. New introduction by Brian Garfield. Includes six pages of stills.
THOSE IDIOTS FROM EARTH: TEN SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES ...
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 237. Paperback original. The author's first story collection. Stories of fantasy and science fiction, with a touch of whimsy. Includes the dystopian story "It's Cold Outside." Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985.
IN DISTANT WATERS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Nathaniel Drinkwater novel. Set in the early 19th century.
TORN CURTAIN.
[New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1966]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 8980. Paperback original. Novelization of the screenplay by Brian Moore of the Alfred Hitchcock film starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. Hubin, p. 879.
WIJ MAKEN GESCHIEDENIS.
Amsterdam: Het Hollandsche Uitgevershuis, 1946. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First Dutch edition. Title translates as: WE MAKE HISTORY. Art by Robert Ziller, Dutch text by A.A. van Eijsden, Jr. Portraits of Nazi figures, and other WW II figures and victims. This work was first published in the U.K. in 1940 where he was an expatriate and worked for the British Ministry of Information. Text is largely quotes from many of the illustrated figures. A sobering look.