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H.P.L.: MEMOIRS, CRITIQUES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
North Tonawanda, New York: SSR Publications, 1955. Wrappers. First edition. 1/200 copies. The majority of this material in this volume was issued simultaneously as Volumes VI & VII of the LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY. Additions include Lin Carter's essay "HPL: THE HISTORY" & the full version of the introduction "THE RESEARCH OF A BIBLIO." Joshi III-C-27. "A landmark in Lovecraft bibliography..." "The foundation for all subsequent work in the field." - Joshi III-B-35.
LOVECRAFT REMEMBERED.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "An exhaustive and well-nigh definitive collection of memoirs of Lovecraft by friends, correspondents, and acquaintances. Virtually all the memoirs contained in previous Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft miscellany have been reprinted, along with numerous other memoirs published in fan and amateur magazines and other sources." - Joshi, Arkham 189.
TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS (GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY).
[Sauk City]: Arkham House Publlishers, Inc., [1990]. Octavo, illustrations by J.K. Potter, cloth. First edition. Retains fifteen of the nineteen stories printed in Derleth's TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS (1969). Drops four tales, "The Haunter of the Graveyard" by J. Vernon Shea, "The Sister City" by Brian Lumley, "Cement Surroundings" by Lumley, and "The Deep Ones" by James Wade. Adds seven stories, "The Terror From the Depths" by Fritz Leiber, "Rising with Surtsey" by Brian Lumley, "My Boat" by Joanna Russ, "Sticks" by Karl Edward Wagner, "The Freshman" by Philip Jose Farmer, "Jerusalem's Lot" by Stephen King, and "Discovery of the Ghooric Zone" by Richard A. Lupoff. Introduction by James Turner replaces the 1969 introduction by Derleth.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: FOUR DECADES OF CRITICISM.
Athens, OH. Ohio University Press, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, (trade paperback issue). This is the trade paperback issue. Critical writings on Lovecraft's work. Contributors include, S.T. Joshi, Edmund Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Peter Penzoldt, Dirk Mosig and others.
H.P. LOVECRAFT: FOUR DECADES OF CRITICISM.
Athens, OH. Ohio University Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Critical writings on Lovecraft's work. Contributors include, S.T. Joshi, Edmund Wilson, Fritz Leiber, Peter Penzoldt, Dirk Mosig and others.
MINK IS FOR A MINX.
New York: Dell, 1964. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. First annual edition of the best from Mike Shayne's mystery magazine. Includes stories by Hal Ellson and Dennis Lynds.
THE 87TH PRECINCT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Omnibus volume with the first U.S. hardcover publications of COP HATER, THE MUGGER and THE PUSHER, which were first published as paperback originals.
THE 87TH PRECINCT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First combined (and first hardcover) edition. Omnibus volume collecting COP HATER, THE MUGGER and THE PUSHER, all first published as paperback originals.
THE 87TH SQUAD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. Signed on the front free endpaper-"Evan / "Ed McBain" / Hunter." Omnibus volume with the first U.S. hardcover publications of THE CON MAN and KILLER'S CHOICE which were first published as paperback originals.
AX.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. 87th Precinct.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matthew Hope novel.
BLOOD RELATIVES.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by McBain. An 87th Precinct novel. Filmed in 1978 with Donald Sutherland with the setting moved to Montreal.
BREAD.
New York: Random House, [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
CINDERFELLA.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matthew Hope novel.
THE CON MAN.
New York: Perma Books, 1957. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3055. Paperback original. The fourth 87th Precinct novel.
COP HATER.
London, New York: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. The first 87th Precinct novel. First published as a paperback original in the U.S. Filmed in 1958 with Robert Loggia as Det. Steve Carella.
EIGHT BLACK HORSES.
New York: Arbor House, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First trade edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
EVEN THE WICKED.
[London]: Severn House, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Published as a paperback original in 1958 under the Richard Marsten pseudonym. This is the first hardcover edition.
GHOSTS.
New York: The Viking Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
GIVE THE BOYS A GREAT BIG HAND.
New York: Perma Books, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. 87th Precinct.
GUNS.
New York: Random House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by McBain. Non series crime novel.
HAIL TO THE CHIEF.
New York: Random House, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. 87th Precinct.
HAIL TO THE CHIEF.
New York: Random House, [1973]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by McBain on the half title page. An 87th Precinct novel.
HEAT.
New York: The Viking Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
HEAT.
New York: The Viking Press, [1981]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.