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BETWEEN THE MINUTE & THE HOUR.
London: Herbert Jenkins, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Posthumously published collection of fourteen stories with preface by Anthony Skene. "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-43. His best stories are "intelligent, well crafted, and imaginative ..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 64. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 47. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-52. Reginald 02265.
INTRUDERS: NEW WEIRD TALES. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Twenty-six stories collected, all but three appearing in book form for the first time. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
INTRUDERS: NEW WEIRD TALES. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Twenty-six stories collected, all but three appearing in book form for the first time. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
THE OCCULT FILES OF FRANCIS CHARD: SOME GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies plus a few extras produced for legal deposit purposes. Twenty six stories, ten featuring the occult detective Francis Chard, two other stories and a novella (all first appearance in book form) and a reprint of the thirteen story contents of SOME GHOST STORIES.
SOME GHOST STORIES ...
[London]: Cecil Palmer, [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-276 [277-278: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The first of Burrage's two collections of weird fiction (the other was SOMEONE IN THE ROOM [1931] published under the pseudonym "Ex-Private X"). "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-43. "The best stories in SOME GHOST STORIES and SOMEONE IN THE ROOM are intelligent, well crafted, and imaginative..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 64. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 47. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 314. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 43-4. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-53. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02267.
SOME GHOST STORIES.
[London]: Cecil Palmer, [1927]. Octavo, [1-2] [i-iv] vvii [viii] 1-276 [277-78], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in white, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The first of Burrage's two collections of weird fiction (the other was SOMEONE IN THE ROOM [1931] published under the pseudonym "Ex-Private X"). "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-43. "The best stories in SOME GHOST STORIES and SOMEONE IN THE ROOM are intelligent, well crafted, and imaginative..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 64.
SOME GHOST STORIES.
[London]: Cecil Palmer, [1927]. Octavo, [1-2] [i-iv] vvii [viii] 1-276 [277-78], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in white, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The first of Burrage's two collections of weird fiction (the other was SOMEONE IN THE ROOM [1931] published under the pseudonym "Ex-Private X"). "Burrage's underrated short stories are deft and subtle, and include a number of poignant posthumous fantasies." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-43. "The best stories in SOME GHOST STORIES and SOMEONE IN THE ROOM are intelligent, well crafted, and imaginative..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 64. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 47. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 314. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 43-4. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-53. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02267.
SOMEONE IN THE ROOM: STRANGE TALES OLD AND NEW. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited by Jack Adrian. This collects twenty - eight fictions, half of which comprise all the stories in the author's rare second collection of the same title (published in 1931 under the pseudonym 'Ex-Private X'), plus another twelve stories (seven in book form for the first time), plus two essays by the author on ghosts and ghost stories.
SOMEONE IN THE ROOM: STRANGE TALES OLD AND NEW. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited by Jack Adrian. This collects twenty - eight fictions, half of which comprise all the stories in the author's rare second collection of the same title (published in 1931 under the pseudonym 'Ex-Private X'), plus another twelve stories (seven in book form for the first time), plus two essays by the author on ghosts and ghost stories.
UN-PAYING GUESTS.
N. p. The Ghost Story Society, 1989. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Collects three pieces first published in magazines. "Un-Paying Guests," an article about ghost stores was published in Home Magazine, December 1919 as "Ghost Stories." The other two pieces are stories of the supernatural; "Behind the Panels" from Weekly Tale-Teller, 19 June 1915 and "The Black Diamond Tree" which has previously been anthologized in 1934. The Ghost Story Society Special Booklet Number 1.
THE BLACK DOG AND OTHER STORIES BY A. E. COPPARD.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition.
FEARFUL PLEASURES.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-87, Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #427.
FEARFUL PLEASURES.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-87, Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #427.
SILVER CIRCUS: TALES BY A. E. COPPARD.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1928]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
AT THE VILLA ROSE.
New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1910. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The first Hanaud mystery. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
THE HOUSE IN LORDSHIP LANE.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Inspector Hanaud novel.
THE PRISONER IN THE OPAL.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Formerly the Adrian Goldstone copy with his bookplate to front paste down. The third Hanaud novel. Mystery involving Devil worship.
AWAY AND BEYOND.
New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy Publishers, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nine stories, first published between 1940 and 1948, all but one appearing in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-179.
THE BOOK OF PTATH.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1947. Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Van Vogt on an inserted plate. Story was first published in Unknown Worlds. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-348. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 62. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 2. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1064. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 146-48. In 333.
THE BATTLE OF FOREVER.
[Franklin, Tennessee]: Authors' Co-op Publishing Co., [1978]. Octavo, First U.S. hardcover edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by van Vogt. "A human adventurer discovers that most of his future world is inhabited by genetically enhanced beast-men. Of course, as in most of Van Vogt's work, it turns out the hero himself has super-powers. After a gap of 20 years, this was the second, and in some critics' opinion, best of van Vogt's "comeback" novels..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 27.
COSMIC ENCOUNTER.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. "An astonishing farrago which involves "time-collapse," an 18th-century setting complete with pirates, and a futuristic battle-cruiser ejected from its own era. It makes no sense, but it's possibly the best late novel by this energetic spinner of pulp fantasies. "Sheer panache" - Brian Stableford." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.), p. 78. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-567.
EMPIRE OF THE ATOM.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Van Vogt on the title page. A mutant boy rises to power in a barbaric post-nuclear war "culture where radioactive elements are worshiped as gods and scientist-priests monopolize atomic power" (Brians). "A space opera of courtly intrigue which is modeled on Robert Graves's historical novels about the emperor Claudius" (Pringle). A novelization of a series of five stories published in ASTOUNDING between May 1946 and December 1947. The sequel is THE WIZARD OF LINN (1950; 1962).
EMPIRE OF THE ATOM.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A mutant boy rises to power in a barbaric post-nuclear war "culture where radioactive elements are worshiped as gods and scientist-priests monopolize atomic power" (Brians). "A space opera of courtly intrigue which is modeled on Robert Graves's historical novels about the emperor Claudius" (Pringle). A novelization of a series of five stories published in ASTOUNDING between May 1946 and December 1947. The sequel is THE WIZARD OF LINN (1950; 1962).
FUTURE GLITTER.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed inscription by Van Vogt on the title page. In a future society some scientists attempt to overthrow a dictatorship.
THE HOUSE THAT STOOD STILL.
[New York]: Greenberg: Publisher, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. No statement of printing on copyright page. First edition. Old fashioned space opera in which the hero discovers immortals living in California and Earth facing a terrible fate. "Archetypal American mid-century SF mystery. roughhewn and exclamatory." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 177.