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THE CHRONICLES OF MICHAEL DANEVITCH OF THE RUSSIAN SECRET SERVICE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-304 + 8-page undated publisher's catalogue and 32-page catalogue dated "Feb. 1897" inserted at rear, original decorated dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Most of the stories are cases of the celebrated Russian detective related to fellow detective Dick Donovan. The last story, "The Clue of the Dead Hand," features detective Peter Brodie who investigates a murder and a simultaneous mysterious disappearance in Scotland at Corbie Hall, "a strange, weird sort of place ... [with] an eeriness about it that was calculated to make one shudder." This story belongs as much in the (rationalized) ghost story genre as the detective story. It also involves a case of male impersonation. Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 111. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 34. Hubin (1994), p. 240.
PHARAOH'S BROKER: BEING THE VERY REMARKABLE EXPERIENCES IN ANOTHER WORLD OF ISIDOR WERNER (WRITTEN BY HIMSELF). Edited, arranged, and with an Introduction by Ellsworth Douglass [pseudonym].
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1899. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-316 [317-320: ads], original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Victorian interplanetary novel. Second part recounts the adventures of two spacemen on Mars that are remarkably similar to those of Edgar Rice Burroughs's hero of A PRINCESS OF MARS (1912). "Among the more intelligent early interplanetary novels, unusual in its recognition of problems of parallel evolution as well as of the mechanics of space travel." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 602. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-351. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 351. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Locke, Voyages in Space 67. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 300. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 132-33. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 76. Bleiler (1978), p.68. Reginald 04481.
THE CLASSIC LIBRARY OF HORROR OMNIBUS: THE MUMMY, THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON.
London: Allan Wingate, [1978]. Octavo, boards. First combined (and first hardcover) edition. Collects the Dreadstone novelizations of THE MUMMY and THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON. Both are introduced by Ramsey Campbell. Campbell who did pen several of the Dreadstone titles did not write these, author Walter Harris wrote THE WEREWOLF OF LONDON, the author of THE MUMMY is not known.
THE PROTS: A WEIRD ROMANCE ...
London: S. H. Bousfield & Co., Ltd., n.d., [1903]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-224, five inserted plates with illustrations by Phil Ebbutt, one full-page map in the text, original pictorial tan cloth, front panel stamped in brown and black, spine panel stamped in brown. First edition. Biological science fiction telling of the creation of protoplasm by chemical means and the fate of the Prots, the life forms brought into being as a result of the experiments. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 632. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 73. Bleiler (1978), p. 64. Reginald 04553.
DRAGONFLY.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Last of the Dwyer novels, a suspense thriller.
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (SEQUEL TO FRANKENSTEIN).
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d., [1936]. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-252 [253-256] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], original decorated blue-green boards, spine and front cover stamped in gold. First edition. Copies bound in cloth with the Queensway Press imprint were intended for the library market while this simultaneous cheaper issue with the Readers Library imprint were sold in Woolworth's for 6d. Novel based on the James Whale film "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff. From George Locke's introduction to the American edition from Bookfinger, he provides the following information: After the movie was completed it was realized that no book existed for a tie-in. The Hutchinson (U. K.) publishing group which owned the Readers Library imprint commissioned author Michael Harrison to produce a novel. Mr. Harrison was given three weeks to produce a finished work. Harrison started working from a shooting script for the film which contained not only the dialog but the shooting details also. After getting bogged down following the script and working under deadline Harrison decided to ignore the script (but not the story). "...the remaining work represented so radical a departure from the script that the finished book was to all intents and purposes original fiction." Harrison took his pseudonym from a public house, "The Egremont Arms." Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 77. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 53-4. Bleiler (1978), p. 68. Reginald 04717.
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (SEQUEL TO FRANKENSTEIN).
London: The Queensway Press, [1936]. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-252 [253-256] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], original decorated blue-green boards, spine and front cover stamped in gold. First edition. One of two binding states (the other is black cloth stamped in green), priority, if any, not known. Copies with the Queensway Press imprint were intended for the library market and were sold for 2/6, while the simultaneous cheaper issue with the Readers Library imprint were sold in Woolworth's for 6d. Novel based on the James Whale film "The Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) starring Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff. From George Locke's introduction to the American edition published by Bookfinger, he provides the following information: After the movie was completed it was realized that no book existed for a tie-in. The Hutchinson (U.K.) publishing group which owned the Readers Library imprint commissioned author Michael Harrison to produce a novel. Mr. Harrison was given three weeks to produce a finished work. Harrison started working from a shooting script for the film which contained not only the dialog but the shooting details also. After getting bogged down following the script and working under deadline Harrison decided to ignore the script (but not the story). "...the remaining work represented so radical a departure from the script that the finished book was to all intents and purposes original fiction." Harrison took his pseudonym from a public house, "The Egremont Arms." Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 77. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 53-4. Bleiler (1978), p. 68. Reginald 04717.
SECONDS ...
New York: Pantheon Books A Division of Random House, [1963]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The story of a man caught up by a nameless organization that uses advanced managerial and technological methods to achieve its singular aim -- lifting the moral and physical barriers to personal liberty and self-indulgence. Brilliantly filmed by John Frankenheimer with Rock Hudson as the hapless victim of a shadowy organization which ultimately kills him and recycles his body parts. "Like David Ely's slender, nightmarish novel, SECONDS has a thinly science-fictional rationale, but it is actually an exercise in Kafkaesque horror ... Outstandingly photographed by James Wong Howe, extremely well played by the whole cast (the choice of Hudson as every man's self-image is inspired), and directed with the imaginative flair John Frankenheimer brought to The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, and 99 and 44/100% Dead, SECONDS is perhaps the scariest movie of the 1960s." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 374. Reginald 37728. Hubin (1994), p. 266.
SECONDS ...
New York: Pantheon Books A Division of Random House, [1963]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The story of a man caught up by a nameless organization that uses advanced managerial and technological methods to achieve its singular aim -- lifting the moral and physical barriers to personal liberty and self-indulgence. Brilliantly filmed by John Frankenheimer with Rock Hudson as the hapless victim of a shadowy organization which ultimately kills him and recycles his body parts. "Like David Ely's slender, nightmarish novel, SECONDS has a thinly science-fictional rationale, but it is actually an exercise in Kafkaesque horror ... Outstandingly photographed by James Wong Howe, extremely well played by the whole cast (the choice of Hudson as every man's self-image is inspired), and directed with the imaginative flair John Frankenheimer brought to The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, and 99 and 44/100% Dead, SECONDS is perhaps the scariest movie of the 1960s." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 374. Reginald 37728. Hubin (1994), p. 266.
A HUMAN BACILLUS: THE STORY OF A STRANGE CHARACTER.
London: John Long, [1907]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-317 [318] [319-320: ads] + 24-page publisher's catalogue dated June -- Sept., 1907" original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in gray and black, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. "A psychological novel of revenge and, in my view, implied homosexuality." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy (III), p. 30. An element of biological science fiction appears as a plot device, involving the injection of bacteria into a person. Settings include Australia and Portugal, as well as an English boarding school. Eustace was a successful collaborator with L. T. Meade. Their BROTHERHOOD OF SEVEN KINGS is particularly sought after. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume III, pp. 30-31. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 269.
HALO IN BRASS.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket Book 709. A Paul Pine detective novel.
IF YOU HAVE TEARS.
New York: Mystery House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Browne; "For---/ widely known and admired/ by someone!/ Howard Browne/ 4/16/88." Signed again by Browne on the title page. An uncommon book to find, more so signed by the author.
THE CURSE OF KA!
[London: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., 1936]. First edition. Champion Library No. 174. Juvenile adventure novel set in Egypt featuring a lost temple and treasure. First published in serial form.
USELESS HANDS.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-300 [301-312: blank] [note: last six leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in light blue. First edition in English. Translation of LES CONDAMNES A MORT (1920). A dark novel of the future involving automation and the working class, when the workers go on strike they are eliminated by a death ray. "...far superior to the similar Metropolis by Thea von Harbou". Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Early Years, #701.
SHUDDERING CASTLE.
New York: Green Circle Books, [1936]. pp. [1-6] 9-320 [321-322: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank; text complete despite gap in pagination], jacket illustration by Ancona, original apple green cloth, front and spine panels printed in black, top edge stained yellow, other edges rough trimmed. First edition, first binding. Science fiction horror novel of radio communication with Mars and a "frightening but plausible visitor from the Jungles of Mars to the world, whose presence in the old spooky castle of an eccentric millionaire-scientist on Long Island causes great fear to its inmates when night falls."– publisher's blurb. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, pp. 44-5. Bleiler (1978), p. 71. Reginald 05252.
SHUDDERING CASTLE.
New York: Green Circle Books, [1936]. pp. [1-6] 9-320 [321-322: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank; text complete despite gap in pagination], jacket illustration by Ancona (Edward D'Ancona), original brown cloth, front and spine panel printed in black. First edition, later binding. Variant binding issued by Macaulay publishers with Green Circle sheets. The binding format is the same save for Macaulay and their logo stamped at the base of the spine. Science fiction horror novel of radio communication with Mars and a "frightening but plausible visitor from the Jungles of Mars to the world, whose presence in the old spooky castle of an eccentric millionaire-scientist on Long Island causes great fear to its inmates when night falls."– publisher's blurb. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, pp. 44-5. Bleiler (1978), p. 71. Reginald 05252.
POWDER VALLEY PAY-OFF.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Third novel in the "Powder Valley" western fiction series.
A PORTFOLIO OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY VIRGIL FINLAY. First and Second Series, with A PORTFOLIO OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY LAWRENCE. First and Second Series.
N.p., n.d. [New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company & Popular Fiction Group, 1941, 1942, (Finlay), mid to late 1940s (Lawrence)]. Large portfolios 9" x 12", four volumes, 32 plates, coated paper stock illustrations laid into printed paper portfolios (coated stock). First editions. Reproductions of eight illustrations in each portfolio originally published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 1939-1942 (Finlay) and 1944-1948 (Lawrence).
5 AGAINST THE HOUSE.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First U.K. edition. Author's first novel. Signed inscription by Finney on the title page "Best wishes-/ -- from/ Jack Finney". Made into a film noir in 1955 directed by Phil Karlson, with Guy Madison, Kim Novak and Brian Keith.
5 AGAINST THE HOUSE.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First U.K. edition. Author's first novel. Made into a film noir in 1955 directed by Phil Karlson, with Guy Madison, Kim Novak and Brian Keith. Hubin, p. 284.
ASSAULT ON A QUEEN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Filmed in 1966 with Frank Sinatra in the lead role.
THE BODY SNATCHERS.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "Seed-pod aliens take over a small American town, replacing people with will-less simulacra. A memorable piece of paranoia, similar to Heinlein's THE PUPPET MASTERS (1951)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 45. "A chilling classic..."- Barron (ed.) Horror Literature 4-116. This novel has now been filmed four times, a classic of the genre. The first film version directed by Don Siegel starring Kevin McCarthy was released at the height of the Red scare of the 1950s. The latest version appeared in 2007 titled "Invasion". Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-401. Barron, ed., Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-136. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 269.
THE BODY SNATCHERS.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Seed-pod aliens take over a small American town, replacing people with will-less simulacra. A memorable piece of paranoia, similar to Heinlein's THE PUPPET MASTERS (1951)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 45. "A chilling classic..."- Barron (ed.) Horror Literature 4-116. This novel has now been filmed four times, a classic of the genre. The first film version directed by Don Siegel starring Kevin McCarthy was released at the height of the Red scare of the 1950s. The latest version appeared in 2007 titled "Invasion". Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-401. Barron, ed., Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-136. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 269.
THE BODY SNATCHERS.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Seed-pod aliens take over a small American town, replacing people with will-less simulacra. A memorable piece of paranoia, similar to Heinlein's THE PUPPET MASTERS (1951)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 45. "A chilling classic..."- Barron (ed.) Horror Literature 4-116. This novel has now been filmed four times, a classic of the genre. The first film version directed by Don Siegel starring Kevin McCarthy was released at the height of the Red scare of the 1950s. The latest version appeared in 2007 titled "Invasion". Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-401. Barron, ed., Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-136. King list, p. 390. Winter list, p. 269.
FROM TIME TO TIME.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Simon & Schuster, [1995]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Sequel to TIME AND AGAIN (1970).