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THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE.
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-299 [230: blank] [231: Crime Club statement] [232: blank], cloth. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham. "...it should appeal to those who like the combination of good characterization and armchair dectection". - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 36-37. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
THE WYCHFORD POISONING CASE.
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1- 308 [309: Crime Club statement] [310: blank], cloth. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham, the second published (in England in 1926).
PLANET PLANE by John Beynon [pseudonym].
London: Newnes, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-247 [248], original yellow cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. The author's third book and second SF novel. An early interplanetary story by this noted British SF writer best known for fine catastrophe novels published under his John Wyndham pseudonym. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 69. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 33. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Reginald 15715.
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
"BLAIRMOUNT?": A TURF MYSTERY.
London: The International Horse Agency and Exchange, Ltd., 1909. Octavo, original red cloth front stamped in black and white, spine stamped in black, white and gold. First edition. Card affixed to front paste down, dated Christmas 1910, "with the author's compliments, W. Allison."
BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS: THE ART OF HANNES BOK.
Saddle River, NJ: Edited and Published by Gerry de la Ree, 1976. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1300 numbered copies. Biographical sketch of Bok by editor de la Ree introduces a portfolio of more than 120 black and white illustrations spanning Bok's professional career from the late 1930s to the 1960s. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 10-46. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 10-46.
A MODERN DELILAH.
London: Mellifont Press, Limited, nd. [1943]. Small octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-96. pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest sized paperback novel. Delilah is a beautiful dancer who is also spy for the Japanese. Worldcat shows two holdings.
SPURIOUS SUN.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Apocalyptic novel in which an experimental station in Scotland blows up causing an uncontrolled atomic chain reaction, the stratosphere ignites. "...the world suffers an explosion of insane wars, including a nuclear attack on Canada by the U.S. The ensuing panic prompts mass suicides, death cults, sadism, torture and plagues caused by mutated bacteria."-Brians: Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984. pp. 140.
THE COMPLEAT WEREWOLF: AND OTHER STORIES OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1969]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Posthumous collection of ten stories. "As the sub-title indicates, only some of these magazine pieces from the 40s are sf proper, but all are witty and enjoyable tales of the fantastic." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 75. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-44. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 232. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 66. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1119.
FAR AND AWAY: ELEVEN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Story collection. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-24. Richard Powers jacket art.
MORE GREAT TALES OF HORROR.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-xviii [xix-xx] 1-431 [432] [433-435: ads] [436: blank], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. First edition. A collection of twenty-six stories by James Hogg, W. W. Fenn, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Catherine Crowe, Allan Cunningham, and others. Bowen "produced two anthologies of note, Great Tales of Horror (1933) and More Great Tales of Horror (1935), featuring a selection of Victorian classics, both common and elusive, as well as several translations (by the editor) from early-nineteenth-century French and German sources." - Sullivan ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 50. "A resourceful anthology for the day." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 250. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 99. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Reginald 01703.
DARK ANN AND OTHER STORIES...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-333 [334: blank] [335-342: ads] [343-344: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light blue. First edition. Mixed collection of short fiction with several supernatural stories, including the title story, “very nicely told with a good balance of sentiment and restraint” (Bleiler) and “The Accident,” “… a neat posthumous fantasy” (Barron) and “… a skillful handling of an old theme” (Bleiler). Ashley, Who’s Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 41. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 246. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 50-1. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 95. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 90.
DARK ANN AND OTHER STORIES...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., [1927]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-333 [334: blank] [335-342: ads] [343-344: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light blue. First edition. Mixed collection of short fiction with several supernatural stories, including the title story, “very nicely told with a good balance of sentiment and restraint” (Bleiler) and “The Accident,” “… a neat posthumous fantasy” (Barron) and “… a skillful handling of an old theme” (Bleiler). Ashley, Who’s Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 41. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 246. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 50-1. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 95. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 90.
KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.
KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.
KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.
THE LAST BOUQUET: SOME TWILIGHT TALES.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1933]. Octavo, pp.[i-iv] v [vi-viii] 1-348 [349-352: ads], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green, top edge stained green. First edition. Bowen’s own selection of her best supernatural and horror stories, fourteen in all, many reprinted from earlier books that are virtually unobtainable. Five stories are first collected in this volume--"The Last Bouquet," "The Lady Clodagh," "Madam Spitfire," "The Hidden Ape," and "Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon." Regardless of the time periods in which her stories are set, Bowen’s supernatural fiction situates horror within the complex interplay among sexuality, desire, and romance. Focusing on women who find themselves at the mercy and whims of a patriarchal culture, Bowen’s protagonists are primarily repressed spinsters, abused wives, jilted lovers, and vengeful widows, characters whose frustrated passions often result in madness and violence. Highlights in THE LAST BOUQUET: SOME TWILIGHT TALES include “The Avenging of Ann Lette” (murderer brought to justice by his own astral projection), “Kecksies” (a horrific tale of rape perpetrated by a reanimated corpse), “Florence Flannery” (brilliant reworking of the demon lover theme involving a carnivorous giant fish), and “Madam Spitfire” (villainous widow’s evil plans thwarted by the ghost of her husband). Aside from being championed by Edward Wagenknecht and Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Bowen has never quite received the attention or the critical acclaim that is her due. She is one of the finest writers of supernatural fiction of the first half of the 20th century, and she belongs on the shelf beside M. R. James, Oliver Onions, and Edith Wharton. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 131. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 50-1. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 96. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Reginald 01702.
TWILIGHT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL ROMANCES. Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of supernatural stories edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
DEATH BEFORE BEDTIME.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1953. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's second mystery. Washington, D.C. setting.
DEATH IN THE FIFTH POSITION.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's uncommon first mystery.
THE POLLINATORS OF EDEN.
New York: Weybright and Talley, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1705-09. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-74.
THE WHITE WOLF.
New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1 [2] 3-334 [335-336], original purple cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First edition. Adventure novel of a dog that grows up with wolves.
THE GUN TAMER.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1929. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Western fiction.
THE OUTLAW.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1933. Octavo, cloth. First edition.