London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. Octavo, [1-4] [1] 2-287 [288: blank], + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "1886-7" inserted at rear, original black cloth, front panel stamped in red, spine stamped in gold and red, rear panel stamped in red. First edition. The binding is the preferred state with the publisher's monogram in red on the rear cover. The book is found with and without publisher's catalogues inserted at rear; this copy has the earliest form of the catalogue, dated 1886-7 on page [1]. The author's anonymously published second book and first novel. A Utopian novel of a matriarchal pastoral society. "A pioneering and affectively powerful work of ecological mysticism..." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 2-87. Hudson's "fine quasi-utopian novel of the far future... depicts small, self- sufficient, matriarchally organized households living in harmony with Nature. The protagonist, tragically, cannot adapt to their pastoral way of life...Both stories [A CRYSTAL AGE and GREEN MANSIONS (1904)] are remarkable anticipations of modern ecological mysticism." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 593. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-51, Negley: Utopian Literature: A Bibliography #596, Sargent: British and American Utopian Literature pp. 38].

New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Crime novel featuring Timothy Dane private eye. The Dane character is a romantic, ..."is a shamus like no other in fiction: young, naive, tender with women, inept at machismo, incapable of escaping tight spots singlehandedly, resorting to violence rarely. There is about Dane a sweetness, a delicate simplicity as incongruous as it is memorable." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 22-23. Hubin, p. 28.

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, [1910]. Octavo, pp. [1-12], 1-365 [366-368: blank], nine inserted illustrated plates by William Eberhardt, original decorated red cloth, front stamped in white and blind, spine stamped in white. First edition. Collects nine stories featuring psychologist Luther Trant who solves mysteries using scientific methods. [Reference: Hubin, p. 45. Queen's Quorum #46. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-11. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 040. Bleiler (1948), p. 39].

Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc., [1974]. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Entertaining essays on American pulp SF 1952-1963. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-13].

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-311 [312], original black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in gold, top edge stained red. First edition. Murder mystery which features Dr. John Ashwin of the University of California, armchair detective. [Reference: Hubin, p. 89].

New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Story collection. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-24. Richard Powers jacket art.

[New York: Avon Books, 1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon S336. Paperback original. First book publication of these three stories, "The Lost City of Mars" by Ray Bradbury, "One Foot and the Grave" by Theodore Sturgeon and "The Marginal Man" by Chad Oliver. Includes a preface to each story.

New York: J. F. Douthitt, 1892. Large octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8 [9] 10-318 [319: blank] [320: ad], flyleaves at front and rear, frontispiece, 45 illustrations by C. Durand Chapman and others, original bevel-edged green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in green. First edition, first binding. "A bizarre, often grotesque, fairy tale of science ..." - Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 66. An ambitious lost race novel based on Symmes' theory of concentric spheres. Among the more lavish nineteenth century American SF novels, but perhaps of most interest for its introduction by Julian Hawthorne that "denounces Zola and the literary naturalists, predicting that the future of literature lies with such romances as Bradshaw's." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-14. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 3-15. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-21. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 270. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 255. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 091. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel B44. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 39. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 192. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 93. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 147. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 29. Reginald 01810. Wright (III) 648].

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Spy thriller with Blackford Oakes.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Spy thriller with Blackford Oakes.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Spy thriller with Blackford Oakes.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1964]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The Nova Mob attempts to take over the Earth, in a 'hallucinatory interplanetary cops and robbers game.' Horrific, fragmentary and very funny in its ghastly way, this book about drug addiction and other forms of manipulation is in much the same vein as the author's THE NAKED LUNCH." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 260.1966 Nebula nominee. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-195. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 42. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1566-70. Maynard and Miles A10a].