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THE WIND AT MIDNIGHT. Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Inscribed and signed on the title page by editor Salmonson. Collection of twenty-five supernatural tales which first appeared in the early 20th century. Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
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].
WALLY WOOD: GALAXY ART AND BEYOND.
[San Diego]: IDW, [2016]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Collects all of Wood's art for science fiction pulps and magazines from 1953-1968.
TWINS.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Basis for the David Cronenburg film.
LIGHT SOURCE.
New York: NAL, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Thriller.
THE CORPSE IN THE GUEST ROOM.
New York: Parsee Publications, [1947]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bleak House Mystery 16. Mystery novel.
THE NIGHT OF THE 3D ULT. ...
New York: John W. Lovell Company, [copyright, 1890]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-3] 4-320 [321-334: ads], original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, all edges stained yellow. First edition, first issue. The book was first published in 1890 by John W. Lovell in wrappers as number 118 of its "International Series" and, as here, in cloth. This was around the time that Lovell was organizing the National Book Company as a trust that would attempt to corner the market on reprints by buying up the plates of a great many firms, including his own. (This trust flourished for only about two years, and went bust around 1894.) Most extant copies of this book have cancel title leaves with the National Book Company imprint on the title page. The book apparently had no English edition. Wood, an English author who evidently moved to the U.S., is remembered today for THE PASSENGER FROM SCOTLAND YARD (1888), which E. F. Bleiler calls "the best detective novel between THE MOONSTONE and THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES" in his introduction to the Dover edition of it. In the same introduction he discusses the two other detective novels Wood published as semi-sequels to this book, THE ENGLISHMAN OF THE RUE CAIN (1889) - also published by Lovell - and the present book, calling them "very unusual for their day in attempting to convey the social circumstances surrounding murder. They are adult in language and background, and attempt sophisticated characters. In this respect they anticipate the Edwardian-Georgian detective novel." THE NIGHT OF THE 3D ULT is set in London, in a lower class boarding house, and concerns the doings of both a police detective and a private detective. Bleiler calls the ending of this novel "almost brilliant." OCLC locates only three copies of this title, including the deposit copy at the Library of Congress. A significant and very scarce detective novel. [Reference: Not in Hubin].
THE NIGHT OF THE 3D ULT. ...
New York: National Book Company, [copyright, 1890]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-3] 4-320 [321-336: ads], original red cloth with white cloth shelf-back, spine panel stamped in blue, top edge gilt. First edition, later issue, with cancel title page, probably first cloth edition. The book was first published in 1890 by John W. Lovell in wrappers as number 118 of its "International Series" and cloth. This was around the time that Lovell was organizing the National Book Company as a trust that would attempt to corner the market on reprints by buying up the plates of a great many firms, including his own. (This trust flourished for only about two years, and went bust around 1894.) Most extant copies of this book have cancel title leaves with the National Book Company imprint on the title page. The book apparently had no English edition. Wood, an English author who evidently moved to the U.S., is remembered today for THE PASSENGER FROM SCOTLAND YARD (1888), which E. F. Bleiler calls "the best detective novel between THE MOONSTONE and THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES" in his introduction to the Dover edition of it. In the same introduction he discusses the two other detective novels Wood published as semi-sequels to this book, THE ENGLISHMAN OF THE RUE CAIN (1889) - also published by Lovell - and the present book, calling them "very unusual for their day in attempting to convey the social circumstances surrounding murder. They are adult in language and background, and attempt sophisticated characters. In this respect they anticipate the Edwardian-Georgian detective novel." THE NIGHT OF THE 3D ULT is set in London, in a lower class boarding house, and concerns the doings of both a police detective and a private detective. Bleiler calls the ending of this novel "almost brilliant." OCLC locates only three copies of this title, including the deposit copy at the Library of Congress. A significant and very scarce detective novel. [Reference: Not in Hubin].