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THE MAN WHO MET HIMSELF AND OTHER STORIES.
London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town: John Long Limited, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects thirteen stories; horror, fantasy and crime fiction. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 59. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 233. Reginald 03563. Hubin (1994), p. 197].
THE MAN WHO MET HIMSELF AND OTHER STORIES.
London, New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town: John Long Limited, [1947]. Octavo, boards. First edition, later binding. Collects thirteen stories; horror, fantasy and crime fiction. [Reference: Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 59. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 233. Reginald 03563. Hubin (1994), p. 197].
THRILLING ADVENTURES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the David Goodis story "The Jaguar." Feature story is by H. Bedford-Jones writing as Gordon Keyne, "Appointment With Disaster."
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1974.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by William Gibson. Chronologically volume 3 in the series of six books.
WRITING SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Twenty original and reprint articles and essays by Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, James Patrick Kelly, Jane Yolen, Connie Willis, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, John Barnes, Norman Spinrad, Dozois, and others. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) 14-16].
THRILLING ADVENTURES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature story is a Louis L'Amour Ponga Jim Mayo story "South of Suez."
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REX STOUT MYSTERY. [ISSUES 1-9: ALL PUBLISHED].
New York: Avon Book Company (1), Avon Detective-Mysteries, Inc. (2-9), 1945-47. Small octavo, nine issues, printed and pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. A complete run of all nine issues. Stout was Editor in Chief and wrote commentary for each issue. Mostly reprints by well known authors which include John Steinbeck, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Carter Dickson, Raymond Chandler, William Irish, H. P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), Cornell Woolrich, Ray Bradbury, and many more. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 451-453].
THRILLING ADVENTURES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains a Henry Kuttner story.
THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-228, inserted frontispiece with color illustration by Walter L. Green, original pictorial dark blue cloth, front panel stamped in lavender, black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, pictorial endpapers. First edition. The author's first science fiction novel. Originally published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post in 1914, a mad scientist tries to bring the end to all war. "A madman calling himself, 'PAX' attempts to impose an end to a cataclysmic world war by nearly wrecking the earth with a ray which breaks down uranium, releasing its immense power." " ...he floods the Sahara, tilts the Earth's axis, alters its orbit, and causes world wide earthquakes." (he also travels in a airship powered by uranium rockets) Brians: Nuclear Holocausts, p. 326. "The narrative describes radiation sickness, apparently for the first time in popular fiction." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-91. "Arthur Train's quick skill as a popular novelist allowed him to fill out the speculations generated by his collaborator, a competent scientist,...[it] avoid[s] most of the absurdities that dogged the sf of the time." Clute and Nicholls (eds): The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1236. [Reference: Bleiler: Science Fiction The Early Years #2199].
ALL HALLOWS' EVE.
London: Faber & Faber, 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-206, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The last of Williams's seven metaphysical romances. "Posthumous fantasy in which two women adrift in the City of the Dead restore contact with the world of the living so that one of them may oppose the grandiose plans of the master occultist Simon the Clerk. A fine moralistic fantasy, very earnest in its treatment of the phenomenon of evil and its speculations about the ways in which evil may and must be defeated; the best of Williams's metaphysical thrillers." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-322. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-373. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1717. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1122. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 17-21. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 178-79].
FIRES OF YOUTH.
[New York: Magnet Books, 1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. MB #309. Paperback original. A very uncommon book.
MAN IN MOTION.
London: Cassell, 1959. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Published as a paperback original in 1958 under the title MAN ON THE RUN.
STAIN OF SUSPICION.
London: [Cassell & Company Ltd, 1959]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Scarce. Hard Boiled. First published in the U.S. as a paperback original under the title Talk of the Town (1958). Tough San Francisco ex-cop looks under the rocks in a small Florida town and almost gets killed for it. "Williams's usual excellent characterization and ability to create a mood of mounting suspense, plus a tightly knit plot, lift Talk of the Town well above the average paperback original of the Fifties." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 848-849.
A TOUCH OF DEATH.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #434. Paperback original. [Reference: Hubin, p. 864].
THE SEIGE OF TRENCHER'S FARM.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, , cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Basis for the film Straw Dogs. [Reference: Hubin, p. 865].
TERROR AT NIGHT: 13 TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947]. Small octavo, cover art by George Mayers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Avon Books 110. Collects thirteen stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Thomas Burke, H. R. Wakefield, Ambrose Bierce, E. F. Benson, and others.
THE ROGUE FROM PADUA.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Historical novel set in the time of the Reformation.
HEYDAY FOR ASSASSINS.
London: Heinemann, 1958. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Assination during the late 19th-early 20th century, mostly of Nobility.
OUT OUR WAY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Compilation of cartoons which first appeared in newspapers centered on the West and cowboy life. Copyright page dates from 1924-1943.
THE THING IN THE WOODS.
New York: Robert McBride & Company, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [3-10] 1-291 [292-294: blank], publisher's light blue green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, other edges untrimmed. First edition. Werewolf in rural Pennsylvania. British novelist and children's book writer Margery Williams' fifth novel, first published in the UK by Duckworth in 1913. In 1922 Williams, under her married name, Bianco, published the children's classic, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT. "Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi has cited this potboiler about a werewolf and its slightly more human brother on the loose in rural Pennsylvania as a possible influence on Lovecraft's tale of an extra-dimensional entity and its slightly more human brother on the loose in rural New England." - Stefan Dziemianowicz. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1718. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 816. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 232. Bleiler (1978), p. 209. Reginald 15374. Hubin (1994), p. 865. Incorrectly recorded in Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 W-656].
SLOW DANCE IN AUTUMN.
Atlanta/Memphis: Peachtree Publishers, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Hank Prince, Atlanta P.I., mystery.
MASKS OFF AT MIDNIGHT.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition.
ANGEL STATION.
New York: Tor, 1989. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof.
ANGEL STATION.
New York: Tor, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Errata slip laid in.
CITY ON FIRE.
[New York]: HarperPrism, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A "strong sequel" to METROPOLITAN (1996)." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1254. Depicts a "complex future dystopian society." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.