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ASHENDEN: OR THE BRITISH AGENT.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-304 [305-306: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First U. S. edition. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume; Queen's Quorum #78. Maugham's book is based on first hand knowledge of the world of espionage as he was a British agent during World War I. States Eric Ambler: 'the first fictional work on the subject [the life of a secret agent] by a writer of stature with first-hand knowledge of what he is writing about' see Who's Who in Spy Fiction by Donald McCormick, pp. 137-39.
THE APE, THE IDIOT & OTHER PEOPLE.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8] 9-291 [292: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original red pictorial cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. This legendary collection of short fiction preserves the "morbid and peculiar" contributions to the short story genre for which Morrow was famous. Includes the author's best known tales, "The Monster Maker" and "Over an Absinthe Bottle." Morrow's short fiction influenced the work of his friend and now better-known fellow writer Ambrose Bierce who praised his "taste for the shadow side of life." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1200. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1565. Barron (ed). Horror Literature 2-69. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 585. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 161. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 292-93. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-174. Bleiler (1978), p. 144. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Wright (III) 3850. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 1827.
THE MONSTER MAKER AND OTHER STORIES. Edited by S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz.
Seattle: Midnight House, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 450 numbered copies. Collects twenty-two stories, eight from THE APE, THE IDIOT AND OTHER PEOPLE (1897) the rest from other sources, many previously unpublished in book form. The definitive collection of Morrow's weird fiction.
THE HOUSE OF FEAR: A NOVEL ...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-408 [409-410: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], title page printed in green and black, original pictorial light gray cloth, front panel stamped in black and dark gray, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained orange, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. Weird mystery novel. Judge de Marsac, eldest son of an ancient family of French nobles, uses mind control to force his brother to commit violent acts, ultimately multiple murders in the guise of a werewolf. Columbo, et al, Cdn SF & F: A Bibliography of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, p. 35. In 333. Bleiler (1948), p. 248. Reginald 12898. Hubin (1994), p. 730.
LAST AND FIRST MEN: A STORY OF THE NEAR AND FAR FUTURE.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xi [xii] 1-355 [356: printer's imprint], original dark blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Laid into this copy are two brief notes signed by Stapledon, one dated 1929 and one dated 1930, a brief signed telegram, newspaper tear sheet with a long review for the book from John O London's Weekly, dated 15 November 1930 and a small newspaper clipping with the author's obituary. Variant without publisher's catalogue inserted at rear. Published 23 October 1930. 2036 copies printed. The author's first novel, "one of the most remarkable imaginative works in the field of futuristic fiction: an account of human development during the next hundreds of millions of years." - Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. "On his own terms, Stapledon is unequaled, and he certainly has been one of the major influences on contemporary science fiction." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1140-43. "LAST AND FIRST MEN and STAR MAKER soar far beyond the accepted limits of science fiction... Stapledon is the great classical example, the cold pitch of perfection as he turns scientific concepts into vast ontological epic prose poems, the ultimate SF writer." - Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Stapledon's "influence, both direct and indirect, on the development of many concepts which now permeate genre SF is probably second only to that of H. G. Wells." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1151-53. Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-56; (1981) 2-98; (1987) 2-109; and (1995) 2-119. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2086. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 718. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1151-52. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 151. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 204-05. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 200-03. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1140-43. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13553. Satty and Smith A3.1.1.
IT'S ALWAYS FOUR O'CLOCK.
New York: Random House, [1956]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. W.R. Burnett writing under a pseudonym. Novel of a jazz combo in L.A.
GHOST GLEAMS. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints the fifteen stories published in GHOST GLEAMS (1921) plus a previously uncollected article, "Can You Explain It? True Stories of the Ghost World," by Wintle with introduction by Dalby ( with bibliographical notes) and afterword by Peter J. Wire. "A rare and imaginative collection of supernatural stories of varying quality." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 499.
GHOST GLEAMS: TALES OF THE UNCANNY.
London: Heath Cranton, Limited, n.d., [1921]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7 [8] 9 [10-12] 13-287 [288: printer's imprint], original medium blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. "According to the author, 'straightforward ghost stories' to be told 'round the campfire.' The usual assortment of spooks, done with a certain infectious enthusiasm and striking imagery. Best tales are 'The Red Rosary,' 'The Spectre Spider,' 'The Chamber of Doom,' and 'The Watcher in the Mill.' Not subtle, but good fun." - Robert Knowlton. "A rare and imaginative collection of supernatural stories of varying quality." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 499. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1725. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 234. Bleiler (1978), p. 211. Reginald 15514.