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THE HAUNTED MAN.
London: Eldon Press Ltd., n.d., [1951]. Octavo, original light blue cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. First publication in book form of a novel originally published in 1937 in DETECTIVE WEEKLY, a British pulp. "A yarn that deserves to achieve a horror certificate. Little Mr. Penfold, typical city clerk, complete with bowler hat and rolled umbrella is kidnapped by a gang of crooks who wanted information about the Safe Deposit where he was employed. He falls into the hands of a mad surgeon who operates on his brain and converts the inoffensive, mild little Mr. Penfold into a man of evil." - jacket blurb. Reginald 12300. Hubin (1994), p. 319.
A DAY FOR DAMNATION.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Book two of "The War Against the Chtorr."
THE INVOLUNTARY HUMAN.
Franingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2007. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies this is one of 165 numbered copies signed by Gerrold and the artist Gary Lippincott. A miscellany of short fiction, extracts from novels, and essays, including the unproduced Star Trek script "Blood and Fire," an excerpt from planned sixth book of the Chtorr series, the triple-award winning story "The Martian Child," and a corrected and edited version of CHESS WITH A DRAGON.
THE NAVIGATOR OF RHADA.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1969. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Sequel to The Rebel of Rhada.
SPACE HAWK: THE GREATEST OF INTERPLANETARY ADVENTURERS.
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, [1952]. No statement of printing. First edition. Space opera in which Hawk Carse, "the greatest adventurer in space," pursues the diabolic scientific genius, Ku Sui, an Oriental villain in the mode of Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu-Manchu, who plans to rule the Solar System. Most of these stories were first published in ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE during 1931 and 1932. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-32.
THE EYES OF THE SHADOW: A DETECTIVE STORY.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., [1931]. Small octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-x [11] 12-252 [253: ad] [254-256: blank] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], pictorial boards. First edition. The second Shadow novel, published in the July, 1931 issue of the magazine, this is the first hardcover publication. This novel has the first appearance of Lamont Cranston. Hubin, p. 343.
THE DEATH TOWER.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1969]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam H4770. Inscribed on the inside front cover to mystery bookseller, publisher and editor Otto Penzler, signed as Walter Gibson/Maxwell Grant. A Shadow novel, the original pulp publication was January 1932.
THE EYES OF THE SHADOW.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1969]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam H4056. Inscribed on the inside front cover to mystery bookseller, publisher and editor Otto Penzler, signed as Walter Gibson/Maxwell Grant. First paperback printing of the second Shadow novel, original pulp publication was July 1931.
GANGDOM'S DOOM.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam H5413. A Shadow novel, original pulp publication was December 1, 1931.
GANGDOM'S DOOM.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam H5413. Inscribed on the inside front cover to mystery bookseller, publisher and editor Otto Penzler, signed as Walter Gibson/Maxwell Grant. A Shadow novel, original pulp publication was December 1, 1931.
THE GHOST MAKERS.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam H5329. A Shadow novel, original pulp publication was October 15, 1932.
HIDDEN DEATH.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam H4884. A Shadow novel, original pulp publication was September 1, 1932.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK A NOVEL by M. Y. Halidom [pseudonym] ...
London: Greening & Co., Ltd., 1906. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-320, original pictorial gray cloth, front panel stamped in yellow and black, spine panel stamped in black and gold. First edition. "Returning to his country home from the Boer War, Ashley Carruthers finds himself a victim of the mysterious Woman in Black who has been terrorizing the village of Abbotswood for over a century. Carruthers soon discovers that the Woman in Black is Mrs. Aubrey de Vere, a seemingly ageless widow, with pointed ears, pronounced canine teeth, and talon-like finger nails, whose breath smells 'like a charnel house.' In addition to her hypnotic sexuality, de Vere is able to project her astral self in the form of a large vampire bat and disappear into thin air at will. De Vere is actually an ancient Egyptian sorceress whose supernatural powers and ability to prolong her life by drinking human blood are granted to her by a magic ring she stole from the mummy of a high priest during the reign of Amenhotep III. The structure of Halidom's novel and its central conceits involve elements cobbled together from VARNEY THE VAMPIRE (1847), DRACULA (1897), and THE BEETLE (1897). While THE WOMAN IN BLACK is not nearly as good as other rare vampire novels like IN THE DWELLINGS OF THE WILDERNESS (1904) or THE MARK OF THE BAT (1928), it is a well-written, highly entertaining read with a number of effective macabre sequences. The novel is also notable for the role that Nurse Everett, a young woman with psychic gifts, plays in the final confrontation with the vampire." (Boyd White). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy , p. 103.
YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP.
NY: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1938. Octavo, [1-8] 1-213 [214-216, blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Classic hardboiled mystery novel set in Southern California. From a new essay on the book by Woody Haut at the online Los Angeles Review of Books (7/29/11) -"The book does read like James Cain filtered through Thomas Pynchon. Although Knight’s first person narrative begins in typical tough-guy fashion, with Dick Dempsey, an Oklahoma-born AWOL Marine hopping a freight in Texas for Southern California in pursuit of his wife and son, it soon moves off in another, wilder direction — more like a noir Alice in Lotus Land than a cool and conventional hardboiled novel." The author's only mystery novel, best known for creating the character Lassie the dog.
HEADS YOU LOSE.
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1958]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. Dell 987. A Mike Shayne detective novel. First paperback edition was title "BLOOD ON THE BLACK MARKET," Dell 64, this is a revised edition with a new title.
STRANGER IN TOWN.
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1956]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. Dell 914. A Mike Shayne detective novel.
WHEN DORINDA DANCES.
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1953]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. Dell 723. A Mike Shayne detective novel.
DIE LIKE A DOG.
New York: Torquil, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Mike Shayne mystery. Hubin, p. 365.
DIE LIKE A DOG.
New York: Torquil, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Mike Shayne mystery. Hubin, p. 365.
GUILTY AS HELL.
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. A Mike Shayne detective novel. Hubin, p. 365.
BLOOD ON BISCAYNE BAY.
Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Mike Shayne mystery.
THE PRIVATE PRACTICE OF MICHAEL SHAYNE.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1940]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The second Mike Shayne detective novel.
TARGET: MIKE SHAYNE.
New York: Torquil, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Mike Shayne mystery. Hubin, p. 365.
TARGET: MIKE SHAYNE.
New York: Torquil, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Mike Shayne mystery. Hubin, p. 365.
2Oth CENTURY GHOSTS.
[New York]: William Morrow, [2007]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The author's first story collection. Collects fifteen stories. This edition includes an additional story not published in the 2005 edition. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for best collection (2005), British Fantasy Award (2006) for best collection, includes "Voluntary Committal" which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.