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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.
INVITATION TO MURDER.
[Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1991.]. Octavo, boards. 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, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, William F. Nolan, Rex Miller, and others.
VAMPIRE DETECTIVES.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1995]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW No. 983. Original anthology.
NIGHTMARE READER.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Classic tales by Le Fanu, Poe, Shelley, James, Lovecraft, etc.
WINTER'S CRIMES 2.
London: Macmillan, 1970. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology, second in the series. Includes fiction by Eric Ambler, Christianna Brand, Elizabeth Ferrars, H.R.F. Keating and six others.
WINTER'S CRIMES 3.
[London]: Macmillan, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology. Includes fiction by Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie (a Mr. Quin story), Mary Kelly, Julian Symons and seven others.
MASTERPIECES OF FANTASY AND WONDER.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Contains 38 selections from the last two centuries.
THE BOYS' SECOND BOOK OF GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of detective stories by some of the great English authors. Includes works by E.C. Bentley (Philip Trent), Agatha Christie (Poirot), Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) John Rhode (Dr. Priestley) and others. Each story has a brief introduction about the author and the story.
NEW TALES OF SPACE AND TIME.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology of ten stories, authors include Bradbury, Asimov, Van Vogt and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-215.
TOMORROW, THE STARS: A SCIENCE FICTION ANTHOLOGY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology compiled by Judith Merril and Frederik Pohl (not Heinlein, although he received credit as "editor" and was one of the five "editors" [i.e. readers] credited in the preface). Stories by Jack Finney, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber and ten others.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR: 26th ANNUAL COLLECTION.
New York: E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of sixteen stories. Includes "The Most Powerful Tailor in the World" by Michael Crichton and the first book appearance of "Duel" by Richard Matheson which is the basis for the well regarded 1971 made for television film (which was Steven Spielberg's first film).
SEE THEM DIE ...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct mystery novel.
'TIL DEATH ...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct mystery novel.
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Spring 1977 to Jan.-Feb., 1978. (Volume 1, No. 1-Volume 2, No. 1). George H. Scithers (ed.).
New York: Davis Publications, Inc., 1977-78. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. The first four issues of the digest sized science fiction magazine. Fiction by Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, John Varley, Joan Vinge, and others.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John D. MacDonald, with two, the second by John Wade Farrell, an Asimov reprint and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes John D. MacDonald with two stories, the second as by Peter Reed. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Fictioneers, Inc., 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes John D. MacDonald with two stories, the second as by Peter Reed. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VAMPIRES.
London: Robinson Publishing, [1992]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Anthology of 29 vampire stories by mostly modern authors with a few classic tales included. Some of the authors: Clive Barker, F. Marion Crawford, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, M.R. James, E.F. Benson, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell.
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE OMNIBUS.
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of stories from the fact based Official Detective Stories magazine.
GAUNTLET: EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF FREE EXPRESSION (Issue no. 2, 1991).
[Springfield, PA: Gauntlet, Inc., 1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Trade paperback format. Stephen King special issue. Also includes some Ray Bradbury material.
DISCOVERING STEPHEN KING.
Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 1985. Wrappers. First edition.
THE DEAN KOONTZ COMPANION.
London: Headline, 1994. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Material by and about Dean Koontz and his writing. Includes a lenghty interview, information about film and television work, reprints his first published short story, etc.
SIN IN THEIR BLOOD.
New York: Eton Books, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Eton #E111. Paperback original. The author's second novel. Harboiled novel with P.I. Matt Ranzino.
THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1937]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xvi [1-2] 3-848, 62 black and white illustrations, fifteen full-page, by Lynd Ward, original flexible blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light green. First edition. An excellent anthology collecting 42 weird and supernatural tales by W. F. Harvey, M. R. James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, W. W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lafcadio Hearn, May Sinclair, Ambrose Bierce, John Collier, Edith Wharton, and many others. Stunning illustrations by Lynd Ward. Ward's "most outstanding achievement was a series of sixty [i.e. 62] illustrations for THE HAUNTED OMNIBUS in 1937, one of the major ghost story collections published before World War II." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 450. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 978. Bleiler (1978), p. 117. Reginald 08538.