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NEEDLE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page as Clement and Stubbs. Author's first book. An alien cop takes over the body of a human. "An adequately exciting tale of possession from outer space, by a writer who is well versed in the hard sciences. Clement's first novel, it introduced the word "symbiote," use ever since by SF writers..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 251. Anatomy of Wonder 3-110.
CYCLE OF FIRE.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 200. "The human survivor of a spaceship crash on a planet which experiences extremes of cold and heat is helped by one of the natives. The strong point of the book is the explanation of the biology and evolution of these alien creatures" - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 84. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-258.
ICEWORLD.
[New York]: Gnome Press, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, jacket art by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-259.
MISSION OF GRAVITY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Stubbs as "Hal Clement" and Harry C. Stubbs. "At the behest of human space-farers, flat centipede-like creatures set out on a heroic mission across the surface of the heavy planet Mesklin. Scrupulously thought out, this is one of the best-loved examples of hard SF." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 241. Runner-up for the 1955 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-260. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 15. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1424-28.
SMALL CHANGES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nine stories.
THE VOICE COMMANDS.
New York: Published by Columbia Publications, Inc., n.d. [circa, 1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-2]-24, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. First edition. Issued as "Science Fiction Classics" No. 5.
MURDER AMONG CHILDREN.
New York: Random House, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Mitchell Tobin novel.
WAX APPLE.
New York: Random House, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Mitchell Tobin mystery.
WAX APPLE.
New York: Random House, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The third Mitchell Tobin mystery.
THE FACE OF FEAR.
Indianapolis/NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed notecard by Koontz laid in; "Strange book. Strange writer. Strange reader?"
THE FACE OF FEAR.
Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE QUAKING WIDOW bound with THE DEEP END.
New York: Ace Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double D-195. Paperback original. The Colby book is the author's first novel. The Dudley book is the author's second. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 46.
THE NEW LIFE.
New York: Published by Columbia Publications, Inc., n.d. [circa, 1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-2]-24, pictorial self wrappers, stapled. First edition. Issued as "Science Fiction Classics" No. 4.
DRINK TO YESTERDAY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-270 [271: blank] [272: printing statement] [273-276: blank], original red cloth, spine stamped in black, top edge stained blue, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First U. S. edition. The author's first mystery novel which introduces the character of Tommy Hambledon, WW I spy in Germany. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Hubin, p. 178.
WITHOUT LAWFUL AUTHORITY.
Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1943. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Tommy Hambledon adventure.
THEY TELL NO TALES
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-4][i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-296 [297-298], cloth. First U.S. edition. The third Tommy Hambledon spy novel, set during the period leading to WW II. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 214-216. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 3707.
A TOAST TO TOMORROW.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-310, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone book. The second Tommy Hambledon spy novel, set during the period leading to WW II. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 214-216. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 154. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 3709.
CUT ME IN.
New York: Abelard Schuman, 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first hardcover mystery.
THE BLOOD RED DREAM.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Dan Fortune novel.
CASTRATO.
New York: Donald I. Fine, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Dan Fortune novel.
THE NIGHTRUNNERS.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Dan Fortune novel.
THE SILENT SCREAM.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Dan Fortune novel.
THE DIVERSIONS OF DAWSON.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1924]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [1-3] 4-301 [302-306: blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First U. S. edition. Story collection with Chief Inspector Dawson of Scotland Yard. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 28. Hubin, p. 189.
THE DIVERSIONS OF DAWSON.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, [1924]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [1-3] 4-301 [302-306: blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Story collection with Chief Inspector Dawson of Scotland Yard. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 28. Hubin, p. 189.
BREAKTHROUGH.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first SF novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-152.