London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's scarce third book, an autobiography of his early years preceded by We Are For the Dark, a short story collection in collaboration with Elizabeth Jane Howard, and The Late Breakfasters, his first novel.

[Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press [and] Durtro Press, [1999]. Octavo, two volumes, boards. First edition, first printing. The major repository of Aickman's fiction. This two volume set collects Aickman's three contributions to WE ARE FOR THE DARK (1951) and the contents of DARK ENTRIES (1964), POWERS OF DARKNESS (1966), SUB ROSA (1968), COLD HAND IN MINE (1975), TALES OF LOVE AND DEATH (1977), INTRUSIONS (1980) and NIGHT VOICES (1985). Includes "Robert Aickman: An Appreciation" by David Tibet, "Robert Remembered" by Ramsey Campbell, and "An Essay" by Aickman written in response to receiving the World Fantasy Award in 1975 for best short story. "...it is not Aickman's quantity of output but his exceptional gifts as a writer - a prose style of impeccable fluidity, urbanity and elegance; a high sensitivity to those nuance and details productive of a weird scenario; a keen insight into all aspects of human psychology, not merely those touching upon the strange; and some very powerful weird conceptions that do not require copious, or any, bloodletting for the effectiveness-that distinguish him." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 2-3. Limited to 500 copies.

London: Collins, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's first solo collection of short fiction. Collects six stories. [Reference: Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-2].

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumous last collection of Aickman's short fiction, six stories, five first published here in an Aickman collection ("The Trains" was collected earlier in WE ARE FOR THE DARK), with introduction by Barry Humphries. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-5].

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. [Reference: Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64].

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. [Reference: Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64].

London: Jonathan Cape, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Farcical novel of a secret society. "The Egyptologists are the members of the Metropolitan Egyptological Society housed in London, and just what goes on or comes off in the Isis Room is not revealed until the end of this long legpull. It is also withheld from their wives who, in boredom, form a solid bloc; but when they are summoned by the Yard (the Superintendent insists on admission), threatened with the visitation of an outsider and a public viewing on television, it all becomes sufficiently Pharanoid to result in their dissolution. "We're twee; you see. We know so well that what we're up to is the least twee of human activities..." Well, you can skip the hieroglyphic twee and settle down to being twitted with some aimless nonsense. Most of the characters are faceless but one of them could be Peter Sellers." - Kirkus Review, February, 1965. Filmed as a made for TV Czech movie.

New York: Crown Publishers, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Career CIA field officer's memoirs. Basis for the George Clooney film Syriana.

New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1896]. Small octavo, pp. [3-7] 8-210 [text complete despite gap in pagination], four inserted plates with illustrations by Frank M. Gregory, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained silver, other edges rough trimmed. First U.S. (and first separate) edition. The title story, a short novel, is a supernatural detective tale in which a man recruits a great detective from the spirit world to solve the crime his wife is suspected of committing. "Barr's most intriguing work ..." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 27. Barr, a Scot who grew up in Canada and later moved to England, was editor of The Idler, which he co-founded with Jerome K. Jerome. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-15. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Reginald 00890. Hubin (1979), p. 24. (dropped from Hubin 1994)].

New York: Phoenix Press Publishers, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-256, publisher's blue cloth stamped in red. First edition. A presentation copy with a contemporary inscription by Bellem on the front free endpaper: "To / Duke & Ann Sutherland / with love / and a leer -- / Robert Leslie Bellem / 29 Palms, Calif., Apr 4, '38." The first novel by the creator of legendary Hollywood detective Dan Turner. BLUE MURDER is a risqué hard-boiled detective novel featuring Los Angeles private eye Duke Pizzatello who is framed for murders he did not commit. "Bellem’s novels, for the most part, are forgettable. The only exception is his first, BLUE MURDER (1938), which features a Dan Turner-like private eye named Duke Pizzatello and contains some of the same slangy, campy mangling of the English language" (Pronzini). Robert Leslie Bellem (1902-1968), a prolific writer, known for his hard-boiled stories, usually with plenty of slang and a touch of the comic, published under numerous pseudonyms and is thought to have written as many as 3000 stories. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 63. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 54-55].

West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lost race adventure novel.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1901. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-258, fly leaves at front and rear, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. This issue without the seven inserted plates found in some copies is generally thought to be part of a remainder issue. However, it is more likely that these copies are part of a second or later printing of the book as pagination and make up of the signatures differ from those of the first printing. These later copies never had the inserted illustrations by Blumenschein or the leaf with "list of illustrations" (pages 7-8 of the preliminaries in the first printing). There are other variations, including no advertising leaves following page 258. A well-known lost race novel, regarded by many to be a minor classic of the genre. A quartet of explorers in a hot-air balloon drift and crash in an unexplored part of the Arctic, where they find, in a sort of hollow earth, a Norse colony, a pit with fantastic creatures, a ghoulish system of human sacrifice, and adventures aplenty. The story also involves what one could call a lost-race-within-a-lost-race. An excellent recreation of the Nordic zeitgeist. "Bennet's description of an expedition's thrust northward from Franz Joseph Land in 1896 provided one of the most realistic passages in the genre... THYRA pictured the full horror of Arctic exploration." - Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 146-47. "One of the better early lost-race novels." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 171. [Reference: Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 41. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 062. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 31. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 124. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 20. Reginald 01098].