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DEALING OUT DEATH.
Philadelphia, David McKay, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Bill Lennox hard boiled novel, set in Las Vegas. Ballard was a Black Mask writer. Hubin, p. 652.
THE SEVEN SISTERS.
New York: A Permabook Edition published by Pocket Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook M-4258. Paperback original. Crime novel set in Las Vegas. Hubin, p. 45.
THE CHINESE MASK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2715. Paperback original. The second Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in China. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN BANGKOK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2820. Paperback original. The third Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Thailand. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN THE JUNGLE.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2674. Paperback original. The first Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Southeast Asia. Hubin, p. 45.
AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-xiii [xiv-xvi] 1-341 [342-344: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition, first printing. Sequel to WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. The survivors of the destruction of Earth start a new civilization. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 126-27. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 041. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 64. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 86. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 27. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Reginald 00801.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-344, original red cloth, front panel stamped in light blue and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in light blue, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. A famous, popular catastrophe novel that was a huge commercial success (over half a million copies sold) and was made into a film that helped spark the SF movie boom of the 1950s. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-3; (1981) 2-130; (1987) 2-146; (1995) 2-156; and (2004) II-70. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 125-26. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 042. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 86. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 27. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2463-68. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Reginald 00801.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.
[New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933.]. Octavo, pp. [1] 2-32, original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Advance "teaser" printing the first 32 pages of the novel. Promotional booklet for this famous, popular catastrophe novel, which was a huge commercial success (over half a million copies sold) and was made into a film that helped spark the SF movie boom of the 1950s. The front cover reproduces the four-color illustration printed on the front panel of the dust jacket of the published book.
FLYING DEATH ...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-198, title page printed in orange and black, original yellow cloth, front panel stamped in green and blind, spine panel stamped in green. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
FLYING DEATH.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1927. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fantastic adventure novel concerning the activities of the "Flying Death," an organization of aerial bandits. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 112. Reginald 00799. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Hubin (1994), p. 45.
SHYLOCK HOMES: HIS POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS.
[Arlington, VA]: The Dispatch-Box Press, 1973. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Edited and introduction by Jon L. Lellenberg. Collection of 10 Sherlock Holmes parodies which were serialized in American newspapers in 1903. This collection is taken from the pages of the The New York Herald.
FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74.
FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. "...is a complex tale told at a scherzo pace, conflating several plotlines – one a bravura narration in dyslexic English – into a neatly planned climax during which the purpose of a terrestrial Macrostructure is revealed, a Far Future world is saved, folk are reunited, the dead walk as do the Uploaded, and every living being is sling-shot into a new paradigm at the end of things." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74.
THE BRIDGE.
London: Macmillan, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Banks. "THE BRIDGE (1986), perhaps his finest early work, once again conflates the literal with 'metaphorical' displacements treated with a knowing literalness characteristic of the work of late twentieth-century writers of significance, regardless of their marketing 'identity;' in this tale, a comatose man relives (or anticipates) his own life, which is represented in matrix form as an enormous bridge; among the interstices of this potent Icon he engages in a rather hilarious parody of sword-and-sorcery conventions." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). The author's third book. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-17. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 95.
CANAL DREAMS.
London: Macmillan, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
COMPLICITY.
[London]: Little, Brown and Company, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "COMPLICITY is certainly [Banks'] most horrific book. In this novel a Scottish eremite exacts horrible revenge on people who have committed crimes but got away with them; it is not a comfortable book, and is made even less so by its superficial construction as a work of detection. It is more difficult here, however, to sympathize with the central character who is a muckraking journalist, drug addict, and sexual masochist--his masochism is played off effectively against the murderer's sadism." - John Grant in Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, ps. 33.
CONSIDER PHLEBAS.
London: Macmillan, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian." - Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-72.
ESPEDAIR STREET.
London: MacMillan, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel featuring sex, drugs and rock and roll.
THE PLAYER OF GAMES.
London: Macmillan, [1988]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 201 numbered copies signed by Banks. Second novel of the Culture sequence. "... though more economically told than CONSIDER PHLEBAS (1987), its bulbous predecessor, less challengingly pits its protagonist against a savage game-based civilization, which he causes to crumble." - John Clute and David Langford, SFE (online). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
WALKING ON GLASS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: Macmillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
WALKING ON GLASS.
[London]: MacMillan, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second book.
THE WASP FACTORY.
London: Macmillan, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-19. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 90.
THE WASP FACTORY.
London: Macmillan, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-20. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 90.