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THRILLERS: STARTLING TALES BY WELLS, DOYLE, ROHMER, ROBERTS AND OTHERS.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 9-313 [314-316: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Collects seventeen stories by Charles G. D. Roberts, Guy Boothby, H. G. Wells, Sax Rohmer, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Louis Becke, and others.
REMARKABLE TRIALS AND INTERESTING MEMOIRS, OF THE MOST NOTED CRIMINALS, WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED AT THE ASSIZES, THE KING'S-BENCH BAR, GUILDHALL, &c. FOR HIGH-TREASON, MURDER, CONSPIRACY, RAPE, HIGHWAY, FELONY, BURGLARY, IMPOSITION, AND OTHER ATROCIOUS CRIMES, VILLAINIES, AND MISDEMEANOURS. FROM THE YEAR 1740, TO 1764. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MOST MEMORABLE EXPLOITS, ADVENTURES, CONFESSIONS, AND DYING-BEHAVIOUR. In Two Volumes ...
London: Printed for W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1765. 12mo, two volumes, pp. [1-2] [i-iii] iv-x [xi-xiv] [1] 2-336; [i-viii] [1] 2-358, full calf, all panels ruled in gold, edges speckled red. First edition. Highway robbery, piracy on the Thames, murder, rape, a midwife tried for "not doing his duty," and more. Female miscreants are well represented. Many of the cases concern conspiracy, forgery. counterfeiting, and fraud. ESTC T114036.
BEYOND.
[New York]: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1963]. Small octavo, cover painting by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F712. Paperback original. Collection of nine stories from Beyond magazine. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Theodore Sturgeon, Algis Budrys and others.
BEST CRIME STORIES.
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1948. Octavo, black cloth, spine stamped in gold. Later (fifth) edition. Collects twenty-two stories. The jacket claims twenty-five stories but only twenty-two on the contents page, so it is unknown to this cataloger if several of the stories have been dropped from this later printing.
A CRYSTAL AGE.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. Octavo, [1-4] [1] 2-287 [288: blank], + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "1886-7" inserted at rear, original black cloth, front panel stamped in red, spine stamped in gold and red, rear panel stamped in red. First edition. The binding is the preferred state with the publisher's monogram in red on the rear cover. The book is found with and without publisher's catalogues inserted at rear; this copy has the earliest form of the catalogue, dated 1886-7 on page [1]. The author's anonymously published second book and first novel. A Utopian novel of a matriarchal pastoral society. "A pioneering and affectively powerful work of ecological mysticism..." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 2-87. Hudson's "fine quasi-utopian novel of the far future... depicts small, self- sufficient, matriarchally organized households living in harmony with Nature. The protagonist, tragically, cannot adapt to their pastoral way of life...Both stories [A CRYSTAL AGE and GREEN MANSIONS (1904)] are remarkable anticipations of modern ecological mysticism." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 593. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-51, Negley: Utopian Literature: A Bibliography #596, Sargent: British and American Utopian Literature pp. 38.
TOM AND DICK WITH THE PARACHUTES.
NP, nd, [c. 1940s]. Small octavo, pp. [1-12], pictorial self wrappers. Five illustrations with text. For young boys about what parachutes and paratroopers do.
WORK AND PLAY IN AN ARMY CAMP.
NP, nd, [c. 1940s]. Small octavo, pp. [1-12], pictorial self wrappers. Five illustrations with text. Group of boys visit and Army camp. Seems like a booklet prepared for juveniles to let them see that an Army camp is not a scary thing.