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NIGHT'S YAWNING PEAL: A GHOSTLY COMPANY.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House: Publishers, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories by August Derleth, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Carl Jacobi, H. Russell Wakefield, Robert Bloch, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. "The Churchyard Yew" attributed to J. Sheridan Le Fanu was actually written by Derleth. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 529. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-258.
THE OUTER REACHES: FAVORITE SCIENCE FICTION TALES CHOSEN BY THEIR AUTHORS.
[New York]: Pellegrini & Cudahy, Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Derleth on the front free end paper. Collects seventeen stories selected and introduced by their authors. Includes Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Henry Kuttner, Fritz Leiber, Clifford Simak, Clark Ashton Smith, Theodore Sturgeon and others.
OVER THE EDGE.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, jacket art by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. Collection of 18 unpublished stories. Includes William Hope Hodgson, H. R. Wakefield, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Carl Jacobi, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Cambell and others.
TRAVELLERS BY NIGHT.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of horror stories, includes work by Robert Aickman, J. Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Margery Lawrence, H.P. Lovecraft (and August Derleth, uncredited) and nine others, all previously unpublished.
TRAVELLERS BY NIGHT.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of horror stories, includes work by Robert Aickman, J. Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Margery Lawrence, H.P. Lovecraft (and August Derleth, uncredited) and nine others, all previously unpublished.
TRAVELLERS BY NIGHT.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Formerly George Locke's copy, inscribed and signed to him (separately) on the front free end paper by contributors Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell. Anthology of horror stories, includes work by Robert Aickman, J. Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Margery Lawrence, H.P. Lovecraft (and August Derleth, uncredited) and nine others, all previously unpublished.
DARK MIND, DARK HEART.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology with seventeen stories by Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. The Campbell story is his first published, when he was just 16 years old. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-347. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-255.
DARK MIND, DARK HEART.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology with seventeen stories by Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and others. The Campbell story is his first published, when he was just 16 years old. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-347. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-255.
PHILIP K. DICK: ELECTRIC SHEPHERD.
Melbourne: The Norstralia Press, 1975. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Introduction by Roger Zelazny. Essays and articles about Dick and his work, includes text of a speech. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 10-54.
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
IN PURSUIT OF VALIS: SELECTIONS FROM THE EXEGESIS.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First publication of portions of Dick's major nonfiction work comprising more than 8000 pages written between 1974 and his death in 1982. These same "mystical experiences" became the central subject matter of his final novels: VALIS (1981), THE DIVINE INVASION (1981), and THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER (1982), termed collectively by Dick the "VALIS trilogy."
COMBAT SF.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. First edition so stated on copyright page. First edition. Collects twelve stories by Poul Anderson, Jerry Pournelle, Gene Wolfe, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-859.
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE PUBLISHED APOCRYPHA.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION: NINTH ANNUAL COLLECTION
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Twenty-eight stories with fiction by Brian Aldiss, William Gibson, Greg Egan, Pat Cadigan and many others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-534.
HARD-BOILED DAMES: STORIES FEATURING WOMEN DETECTIVES, REPORTERS, ADVENTURERS, AND CRIMINALS FROM THE PULP FICTION MAGAZINES OF THE 1930s.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed sheet by the editor laid in. Preface by Marcia Muller. Collects fifteen stories, all with a brief introduction. The stories are offset from the pulp appearances.
ED MCBAIN'S MYSTERY BOOK. [ALL PUBLISHED].
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1960-61. Small octavo, three issues, all published, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Pocket Books capitalized on publishing the McBain novels by entering the digest magazine world. Managing Editor Robert Goodney sought ought well known mystery writers and invited them to submit stories with their famous characters. Authors included McBain, Richard Prather (Shell Scott), Ross MacDonald (Lew Archer), Henry Kane (Peter Chambers), Fredric Brown (Ed and Am Hunter), Robert Bloch, Bruno Fischer, Hampton Stone, Lawrence Block and others. First rate material but did not get beyond the three issue. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 211-213.
SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Milton Luros, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Reaching for the Moon" by S[alvatore]. A[lberto]. Lombino, who would change his name to Evan Hunter and become well known using his pseudonym "Ed McBain" - this is his first published story. Other authors in this issue, George O. Smith, Stephen Marlowe, Lester Del Rey and other. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF pulp magazine, the last issue in 1958. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550.
LORD JOHN TEN.
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology celebrating ten years of this fine small press with short stories, essays, poetry, photographs and a play. Twenty six contributors which include Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Raymond Carver, Stan Freberg, Jim Harrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, John Updike and others.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "A Planet Named Joe" by S. A. Lombino, an early published story by the author who would change his name to Evan Hunter and achieve more fame writing as Ed McBain. Also includes a Leigh Brackett story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
THE NEW CRUSADE: INCLUDING A REPORT CONCERNING PROHIBITION AND FIFTEEN CENTURIES OF LIQUOR LEGISLATION.
Cleveland, OH: The Crusaders Inc., 1932. Octavo, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in red and black. First edition. A call to young men to participate in "The New Crusade" against bootleggers, gangsters and other public enemies which threaten society. The Crusaders, founded by Fred G. Clark, were a temperance movement devoted to the repeal of the 18th Amendment. After prohibition the organization remained active in politics of the day, Clark later founded the American Ecomonic Foundation.
DARK CRIMES: GREAT NOIR FICTION FROM THE '40s TO THE '90s.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
A MODERN TREASURY OF GREAT DETECTIVE AND MURDER MYSTERIES.
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Anthology of stories. Estleman, Hillerman, Block, Pronzini, Gores, Paretsky and others.
INVITATION TO MURDER.
[Arlington Hts., IL: Dark Harvest, 1991.]. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies signed by the editors and contributors. Original anthology collecting eighteen stories by Bill Pronzini, John Lutz, Richard Laymon, Gary Brandner, Andrew Vachss, William F. Nolan, Rex Miller, Loren Estleman and others.