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THE HOUSE OF NUMBERS.
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell # A139. Paperback original. Filmed in 1957 with Jack Palance.
THE THIRD LEVEL.
New York: Rinehart, 1957. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-164.
TIME AND AGAIN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1970]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Correct first printing. Excellent novel of time travel-to New York of the 1880's. "Excellent historical detail and a compelling plot make this the outstanding work of the [time travel] sub-genre." -Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-167. "...it's a classic modern timeslip romance, detailed and moving...(the) author's best book." - Pringle (ed.)-The Ultimate Guide To Science Fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-403. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-105. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 47. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2283-86. King list, p. 390.
THE WOODROW WILSON DIME.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantasy novel of a parallel world.
ALLIGATOR.
[Boston: The Harvard Lampoon, Inc., 1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later printing. Vanitas V4402. Paperback original. Second printing, January 1963 on the copyright page. Parody of the James Bond series by the Harvard Lampoon.
DEATH'S LOVELY MASK.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1958. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
THE LADY AND THE CHEETAH.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1951. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
MURDER WITH SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Murder mystery set in Natchez, MI.
ADMIRAL HORNBLOWER IN THE WEST INDIES.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1958]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
THE BARBARY PIRATES.
New York: Random House, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. Book club edition. Light tan cloth and dust jacket not priced with "Young Readers Of America" slug at head of front flap, no ads to rear panel. The story of the Barbary Pirates and the fledgling U. S. Navy.
THE CAPTAIN FROM CONNECTICUT.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1941. Octavo, original cream cloth, front and spine stamped in light blue, top edge stained blue, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First edition. Historical novel about a U. S. Frigate during the War of 1812.
COMMODORE HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Published in the U. K. as THE COMMODORE. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER AND THE HOTSPUR.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
HORNBLOWER DURING THE CRISIS: AND TWO STORIES: HORNBLOWERS TEMPTATION and THE LAST ENCOUNTER.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1967]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The posthumously published final Hornblower book which the author was working on upon his death. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
LORD HORNBLOWER.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Octavo, dust jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, cloth. First edition. A Horatio Hornblower novel. Sea adventure during the Napoleanic wars.
THE PEACEMAKER.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, [1934]. Octavo. [i-viii] 1-341 [342-344, blank], original green boards, spine stamped in gold. First edition. One of the major SF novels of the 1930's. "A bitterly ironic story about an ineffectual schoolmaster whose mathematical genius leads him to construct a machine which will demagnetize iron at a distance. He is led by unfortunate circumstance to use the machine in a hopeless attempt to blackmail England into initiating a program of disarmament." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-38. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-19; (1981) 2-28; (1987) 2-32; and (2004) II-413. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 65. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 305. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 46. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 259. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 75. Reginald 05518.
THE WINGED BULL.
London: Williams & Norgate Ltd., 1935. Octavo, brown cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Occult romance.
THE LAUGHING BUDDHA MURDERS.
New York: Vulcan Publications, Inc., [1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine paperback original. Chin Kham is a detective who is also a Buddhist Lama. Reminiscent of the Green Lama pulp tales that the author also wrote. Hubin, p. 299.
MOTHER OF PEARL.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head/NY: John Lane Company, 1908. Octavo, cloth. First edition thus. Translated by Frederic Chapman. This volume is from The Works of Anatole France in an English Translation. First publication of some of these tales appeared in the volume Tales From A Mother-Of-Pearl Casket (NY: 1896). Story collection, includes some supernatural and fantasy. See Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #657, Barron: Fantasy Literature 2-62.
ALAS, BABYLON.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Post nuclear holocaust novel. A group of survivors in Florida cope with the aftermath, and day to day survival. A well received novel with a warning toward nuclear war as well as an ethical statement on the responsibility of citizens toward the prevention of one. Magill: Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Volume 1, pp. 38-42. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-74. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 29.
JUST ANOTHER MURDER.
London: Andrew Dakers Limited, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Furber, a presentation copy to a close friend from the author, also a note in the author's pen to front flap. Furber was a successful playwright and songwriter, the film Lambeth Walk was based on his play Me and My Girl, among other films he has writing credit for the original version of Brewster's Millions (1935). Author's only mystery novel.
HARILEK: A ROMANCE. By "Ganpat" [pseudonym].
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x-xi [xii-xiii] xiv [1-3] 4-336 [337-338: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Ganpat's first novel. A lost race adventure story set in Sakaeland, an unknown region somewhere in the middle of the great deserts north of the Himalayas. "Arcadian utopia realized in Gobi desert." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 148. "Ganpat" wrote a number of adventure novels set in India and vicinity, including several lost race novels. Bleiler (The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, p. 198) observes that his work was "more authentic than Talbot Mundy's work, but inferior as fiction." Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 324. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 05750.
DR. CYCLOPS.
New York: Phoenix Press, Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless and sadistic mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including a group of human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. "Not only is Dr. Cyclops a literate horror/sci-fi film with good animation and special effects; it is also filmed in Technicolor, something unheard of for such a low-budget film at that time." - Parish & Pitts, The Great Science Fiction Pictures, pp. 104-105. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940.
DR. CYCLOPS.
New York: Phoenix Press, Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless and sadistic mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including a group of human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. "Not only is Dr. Cyclops a literate horror/sci-fi film with good animation and special effects; it is also filmed in Technicolor, something unheard of for such a low-budget film at that time." - Parish & Pitts, The Great Science Fiction Pictures, pp. 104-105. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940.
DR. CYCLOPS.
New York: Phoenix Press, Publishers, [1940]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-255 [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Novelization of the 1940 film starring Albert Dekker as the ruthless and sadistic mad scientist in the Peruvian jungle who uses radioactivity to miniaturize living things, including a group of human beings who are reduced to one fifth of their natural size. "Not only is Dr. Cyclops a literate horror/sci-fi film with good animation and special effects; it is also filmed in Technicolor, something unheard of for such a low-budget film at that time." - Parish & Pitts, The Great Science Fiction Pictures, pp. 104-105. The novel, often attributed to, but not by, Henry Kuttner, was perhaps written by Alexander Samalman. Kuttner did write a shorter magazine version from the film script which was published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1940.