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KILL YOUR DARLINGS.
New York: Walker and Company, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The third Mallory novel, set at a Bouchercon.
MURDER BY THE NUMBERS.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A novel featuring Elliot Ness.
NICE WEEKEND FOR A MURDER.
New York: Walker and Company, [1986]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page. A Mallory novel, set at a murder mystery game weekend.
NO CURE FOR DEATH.
New York: Walker and Company, [1983]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's second hardcover mystery. Signed by the author on the title page. A Mallory novel, chronologically a "prequel" to THE BABY BLUE RIP-OFF.
BLOOD MONEY.
New York: Curtis Books, [1973]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Curtis Books 07277. Paperback original. The author's second book. Second Frank Nolan novel.
THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF MR. MIDDLETON.
Chicago: Herbet M. Stone and Co., 1903. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Story collection, mostly mystery oriented but some fantasy/horror content.
THE HAB THEORY.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. End of civilization cataclysm science fiction novel. This novel is based on the theories of Hugh Auchincloss Brown (HAB) which postulated that the earth has gone through a series of global cataclysms.
CURSED.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company Publishers, [1919]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-349 [350-352: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with color illustration by Modest Stein, original decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A curse is laid upon a sea captain by a Malayan witch with near tragic consequences for his family. Bleiler (1948), p. 109. Reginald 04903. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-193.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, pictorial endpapers. First edition. An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-33. Clareson: Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s, #238. Bleiler: Science Fiction: The Early Years, #673.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, pictorial endpapers. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by England on the verso of the frontispiece: "A ma Bonne Amie / Madamoiselle Carney / avec mes meilleurs / voeux / George Allen England / 22 fevrier, 1914." An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-73; (1981) 1-67; (1987) 1-33 and (1995) 1-33. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 58-9. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 294.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, pictorial endpapers. Later printing. An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-73; (1981) 1-67; (1987) 1-33 and (1995) 1-33. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 58-9. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 294.
THE FLYING LEGION ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-394, inserted frontispiece with illustration by P. J. Monahan, original blue-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition. Adventure story first published as a six-part serial in ALL-STORY 15 November - 20 December 1919. A wealthy soldier of fortune and Islamist, whose inventions far surpass world technology of his day, forms the Legion in an unsuccessful attempt to reform Islam, which he believes to be the true religion. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-74 and (1981) 1-68. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 679. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 177-79. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 284. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04905. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-195.
THE FLYING LEGION ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-394, inserted frontispiece with illustration by P. J. Monahan, original blue-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown. First edition. Adventure story first published as a six-part serial in ALL-STORY 15 November - 20 December 1919. A wealthy soldier of fortune and Islamist, whose inventions far surpass world technology of his day, forms the Legion in an unsuccessful attempt to reform Islam, which he believes to be the true religion. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-74 and (1981) 1-68. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 679. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 177-79. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 284. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04905. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-195.
GROTESQUE.
North Tonawanda, NY: SSR Publications, 1952. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, mimeographed. Includes the first publication of the short story "Moonfire" by Marion Zimmer Bradley and a short article by Robert Bloch.
THE HARRY CHRONICLES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition.
THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM. OF NANTUCKET ...
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. Octavo, pp. [1]-2 [leaf of ads dated "May, 1838"] [iii-v] vi-vii [viii] [9] 10-201 [202: blank] [1]-14 [ads], fly leaf at front, original pebble grain blue muslin, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, untrimmed. First edition. Poe's first prose book and his only book-length work of fiction, one of the nineteenth century's most fantastic short novels. "A novel of horrendous sea adventure, followed by extraordinary experiences in the Antarctic ... Critically, Pym has generally been held in low esteem, but this is probably because of the full-blown sensation approach of the first part of the novel, which retails more horrors in one short voyage than would have taken place in a sailor's lifetime or more. But considered within the aesthetics of BLACKWOOD'S, it is a fine achievement. As for the second, puzzle section, it remains successfully puzzling after a century and a half." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1784. "Clearly, THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM has exerted a powerful influence on its readers, and its entrancing ending in particular has aroused considerable interest. The novel has become a frequent subject for scholarly debate and a rich source for numerous literary and artistic endeavors, and in the last twenty-five years, it has come to be recognized as a masterpiece." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1092-95. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-41; (1981) 1-138; (1987) 1-74; (1995) 1-74: and (2004) II-857. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 43-4. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-76. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1313. Bleiler (ed), Science Fiction Writers, pp. 15-7. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1480-87. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-78. Bleiler (1978), p. 159. Reginald 11610. BAL 16128. Wright (I) 2052. Heartman and Canny, pp. 38-40.
MURDER IS MY BUSINESS.
New York: Dutton, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Stories of killers for hire.
JIM THOMPSON: THE KILLERS INSIDE HIM.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Fedora Press, 1983. Wrappers. First edition. One of 425 numbered copies. Fine in wrappers as issued. Biographical information by Collins, an interview with Thompson's widow Alberta and first publication of the novella "This World, Then The Fireworks."
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER.
[New York]: Random House, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. Novelization of the 1948 film noir directed by Anatole Litvak from a screenplay by Lucille Fletcher. Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. "One of those auspicious meldings of high noir style and content that depicts a grim, hyterical situation with maximum levels of narrative depth, credibility and suspense." Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 376. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 262-263. Keaney, Film Noir Guide, p. 394.