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THE CHRONICLES OF QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER, DETECTIVE.
Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-316 [1-12: ads], original light tan cloth, front stamped in red, black and gray, spine stamped in red and black, fore and bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. Collects seven stories. After his father Quincy Adams Sawyer died, young Quincy Adams Sawyer [Jr.], who had studied police methods since he was a young man, returns home from overseas and sets up a private detective business in Boston. [Reference: Hubin, p. 646. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 85].
THE GODSEND.
London: Souvenir Press, 1976. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first novel. "Taylor commands strong reader identification with his protagonist, gradually intensifying suspense from the first page to the last. A truly terrifying novel." -Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-295.
THE GODSEND.
New York: St. Martin's, 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first novel. "Taylor commands strong reader identification with his protagonist, gradually intensifying suspense from the first page to the last. A truly terrifying novel." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-295. Made into a (bad) film in 1980.
HELL IS MURKY.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2008. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 400 copies. The author's first published collection which includes four original to this volume.
CLOSE TO THE BONE.
Woodinville, WA: Silver Salamander Press, [1993]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Limited to 875 copies, this is one of 500 unnumbered copies signed by Taylor and Ed Bryant who wrote the introduction. Paperback issue. Collects ten horror stories, seven original to the volume. Finalist for the Bram Stoker award 1993 for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection.
THE FLESH ARTIST.
Woodinville, WA: Silver Salamander Press, [1994]. Cloth. First edition. Limited to 875 copies, this is one of 500 unnumbered copies signed by Taylor and Norman Partridge who wrote the introduction. Paperback issue. Collects six stories, five original to this volume.
UNNATURAL ACTS & OTHER STORIES.
[New York: Richard Kasak Books, 1994]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. Collects nine stories, only one is in common with a previous collection with the same name. [Reference: See Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-365].
A MURDER WAITING TO HAPPEN.
New York: Walker, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Joe Jamison.
ONLY HALF A HOAX.
New York: Walker, 1983. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Joe Jamison. Author's second mystery.
THE SIX IRON SPIDERS.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [1942]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Asey Mayo mystery set in Cape Cod.