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HOTHOUSE...
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962). Novelization of five Hothouse stories that won the 1962 Hugo award for best short fiction published in 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-3. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 34.
HELLICONIA WINTER.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The final volume in the trilogy. A "massive attempt at world-creation: the evocation of an alien planet where 'winter' lasts many centuries. An epic narrative, impressively detailed. John W. Campbell award winner, 1983..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 170. "Though science fiction often has this scope, it has never had this grandeur." - The Times Literary Supplement. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-11.
AN ISLAND CALLED MOREAU.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THE SALIVA TREE: AND OTHER STRANGE GROWTHS
London: Faber and Faber, [1966]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection.
COLL AND HIS WHITE PIG.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehard and Winston, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Alexander on the half title page it is additionally signed by the illustrator Evaline Ness. A childrens story set in Alexander's fantasy kingdom of Prydain, it is based on an incident from the Book of Three (volume 1 in the Chronicles of Prydain).
ALIBI.
Chicago, IL: Magazines, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first of five issues of this uncommon magazine.
A CHOICE OF ENEMIES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Precedes the English edition. Author's first novel. "The book's compassionate outlook and portrayal of a man's dismal treatment by his own intelligence service make it a feeling man's Spy Who Came in From the Cold." - Jay Pedereson (ed.): St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 11.
A CHOICE OF ENEMIES.
London: Peter Davies, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The author's first novel. "The book's compassionate outlook and portrayal of a man's dismal treatment by his own intelligence service make it a feeling man's Spy Who Came in From the Cold." - Jay Pedereson (ed.): St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 11. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 467.
DEEP PURPLE.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Allbeury on the front free endpaper. Spy thriller involving Soviet defectors. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 470.
THE JUDAS FACTOR.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 471.
THE SEEDS OF TREASON.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller involving love and betrayal. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 481.
A TIME WITHOUT SHADOWS.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller in which a operative who served in WW II attempts to find out if his resistance unit was betrayed. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 470.
A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy thriller involving the use of psychics. One sheet press release from the publisher laid in. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 487.
AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE: EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS COLONEL CLAY.
London: Grant Richards, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-317 [318: blank] [319-320: ads], illustrations by Gordon Browne, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. "The first great rogue of mystery fiction," Colonel Clay, "preceded ... Raffles by two years ..." - Queen's Quorum 21. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 4. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 11.
THE RELUCTANT HANGMAN AND OTHER STORIES OF CRIME...
Boulder, CO: The Aspen Press, 1973. Octavo, illustrated by Alfred Pearse and Sidney Paget, pictorial yellow wrappers. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Three stories, "The Great Ruby Robbery" and "The Conscientious Burglar" collected earlier in IVAN GREET'S MASTERPIECE (1893), the title story, original published as "Jerry Stokes," THE STRAND March 1891, apparently published here for the first time in a book.
PHARAOH'S TREASURE: AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE.
Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-355 [356: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, original olive green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Pseudo-historical novel. "An ancient manuscript, recently discovered, gives an account of the adventures of Athene in Egypt circa 1345 B.C. At the end a Hebrew seer laments the bondage of the Israelites. Such a novel underscores the continuing interest in Egyptology and Biblical materials at the turn of the century." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870-1930s 011. The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction, p. 3. Bleiler (1978), p. 4. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Not in Wright, American Fiction 1876-1900.
BLACK PLUMES.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-270 [271-272: blank], original yellow cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel. Dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
BLACK PLUMES.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-270 [271-272: blank], original yellow cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel. Dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff. "Margery Allingham was one of the three major Englishwomen mystery writers of the 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction' -- the other two. of course, being Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 15.
CARGO OF EAGLES.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Albert Campion mystery, the author's last, completed by her husband after she passed away.
THE CHINA GOVERNESS: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The Doubleday edition preceded the 1962 Chatto & Windus edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion.
DANCERS IN MOURNING.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-14] [1] 2-336 [337-338: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, endpaper maps. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion. "A splendid achievement, not only as a plot but as an exhibition of a group of characters ... Very nearly her second masterpiece" - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 33. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
THE GYRTH CHALICE MYSTERY: AN ALBERT CAMPION DETECTIVE STORY.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 11-321 [322: ad] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed, pictorial endpapers. First U.S. edition. "An early story with good scenes and relieved from murder by elegant robbery and clerical personages, but somewhat touched by by the excessive lightheartedness of the period." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989) 66. Published in the UK as LOOK TO THE LADY. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
THE MINDREADERS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
WANTED: SOMEONE INNOCENT AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Stamford House, [1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pony Book 56. Collects the title story and three others, "The Sexton's Wife," "'Tis Not Hereafter," and "He Was Asking After You."
DECEPTION.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Altman on the title page. Suspense/thriller novel.