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SINISTER STORIES. By Jasper John [pseudonym].
London: Henry Walker, [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-171 [172: blank] [173-176: ads], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition, first printing. "A collection of commercial supernatural horror tales, two of which, 'The Spirit of Stonehenge' and 'The Seeker of Souls,' later reached a wider audience through their inclusion in Montague Summers' popular ghost story anthology, THE SUPERNATURAL OMNIBUS" - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 375. An uncommon book, though not as rare as her subsequent collection TALES OF TERROR (1931). Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 138. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 123. Bleiler (1978), p. 110. Reginald 07901. Hubin (1994), p. 444.
THAT'S WHERE THE CAT'S AT, BABY.
New York: Paperback Library, [1970]. Small octavo, cover by Mitchell Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback Library 64-388. Paperback original. The third volume in the Superspade series. Richard Spade, former football player and Viet-Nam war vet is a troubleshooter. A character in the fashion of John Shaft, except this series is written by a African-American writer. Hubin, p. 445.
CONAN CHRONICLES: CONAN THE INVINCIBLE, CONAN THE DEFENDER, CONAN THE UNCONQUERED.
New York: TOR, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. Collects CONAN THE INVINCIBLE (1982), CONAN THE DEFENDER (1982), CONAN THE UNCONQUERED (1983).
CONAN THE DEFENDER.
[New York]: TOR, [1982]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. The second volume in the Jordan authored Conan books.
CONAN THE INVINCIBLE.
London: Robert Hale, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Issued as a trade paperback in the U.S. this is the first hardcover edition and perhaps Jordan's first hardcover book. It is the first of a number of Conan pastiches written by him.
THE FIRES OF HEAVEN.
New York: TOR Fantasy, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The fifth volume in "The Wheel of Time" series. "When complete, the sequence will almost certainly constitute one of the major epic narratives of modern fantasy." - Clute, Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997). See - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-201.
GUNNER CADE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Bacon, boards. First edition. "Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. "The hero belongs to an almost monastic order of future warriors, whose members are thoroughly indoctrinated and sexually repressed. Naturally, he rebels -- which leads him on to picaresque and sometimes humorous adventures in the outside worlds. An enjoyable (though now rather dated) adventure story." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 164.
GUNNER CADE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Bacon, boards. First edition. "Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. "The hero belongs to an almost monastic order of future warriors, whose members are thoroughly indoctrinated and sexually repressed. Naturally, he rebels -- which leads him on to picaresque and sometimes humorous adventures in the outside worlds. An enjoyable (though now rather dated) adventure story." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 164.
GUNNER CADE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Bacon, boards. First edition. "Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. "The hero belongs to an almost monastic order of future warriors, whose members are thoroughly indoctrinated and sexually repressed. Naturally, he rebels -- which leads him on to picaresque and sometimes humorous adventures in the outside worlds. An enjoyable (though now rather dated) adventure story." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 164.
AND THE DARKNESS FALLS.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1946]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Lee Manso, two-part cloth. First edition. One of the largest, most extensive anthologies of horror and supernatural fiction published in the 1940s. Collects seventy-two stories and poems by John Buchan, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Oliver Onions, E. F. Benson and many others, with informative and often quite extensive headnotes by Karloff. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 932. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 49. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-276. Bleiler (1978), p. 111. Reginald 08067.
NOT COMIN' HOME TO YOU.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Last of the three novels using this pseudonym. About a killing spree by two young people in the southwest.
SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS.
[New York]: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Block on the title page. The first of three books as Paul Kavanagh.
THE BIG KISS-OFF.
[Hasbrouck Heights, NJ]: Graphic Books, [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Graphic # 75. Paperback original. Hardboiled mystery.
FRAMED IN GUILT.
New York: The M.S. Mill Co. and William Morrow & Company, [1949]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Hardboiled mystery novel.
JOY HOUSE.
New York: A Lion Book, [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion #210. Paperback original. Hard boiled. Scarce title, especially in condition.
SLEEP WITH THE DEVIL.
New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion #204. Paperback original. Hard boiled.
THIS IS MURDER, MR. HERBERT: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Publishing Company, Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's first book. Collection of four hard boiled stories. A just about fine copy, mild rubbing to corners,spine edge.
TOO BLACK FOR HEAVEN.
New York: Zenith Books, Inc., [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Zenith #ZB-31. Paperback original.
THE BLONDE AND JOHNNY MALLOY.
New York: An Eagle Book, Popular Library, [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Eagle Books# EB104. Paperback original. Hardboiled mystery.
SUMMONING KNELLS AND OTHER INVENTIONS.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Contemporary collection of horror stories.
NO. 472 CHEYNE WALK; CARNACKI: THE UNTOLD STORIES.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. New collection of stories using Hodgson's Carnacki character. Several first appeared in a chapbook.
BLOOD OF VINTAGE.
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second mystery novel, featuring detective Sam Phelan. After a "blue-blood" is murdered a detective, not known for his etiquette is sent to investigate. "Naturally this annoys the bluebloods, or most of them, but it does not prevent Sam from doing a thoroughly good job of detecting." - NY Times book review 2 March, 1947. Hubin, p. 479.
TWILIGHT ZONE.
London: John Spencer & Co. (Publishers) Limited, n.d., [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Badger Books SF 13. Set in the distant future, the story recollects the period, a thousand years before the events of the novel, a period when the Sun cooled and Earth became uninhabitable. Mankind migrated to Venus, and later to Mercury. On Mercury the colonists are enslaved by the dictatorial Overlords, against whom they finally rebel and destroy. They return to Earth, which is now recovering as the ice recedes and the planet warms up again. Also present is a short story, "Point of No Return" by Max Chartair (i.e. John Glasby) about an advanced space ship that enters deep space beyond the orbit of Pluto, never to return. Not in Clarke. Reginald 08637 (dating 1954).
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.
IF I SHOULD MURDER.
New York: Parsee Publications, [1947]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bleak House Mystery 19. Mystery novel.