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ALL HALLOWS' EVE.
London: Faber & Faber, 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-206, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The last of Williams's seven metaphysical romances. "Posthumous fantasy in which two women adrift in the City of the Dead restore contact with the world of the living so that one of them may oppose the grandiose plans of the master occultist Simon the Clerk. A fine moralistic fantasy, very earnest in its treatment of the phenomenon of evil and its speculations about the ways in which evil may and must be defeated; the best of Williams's metaphysical thrillers." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 5-322. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-373. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1717. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1122. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 17-21. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 178-79.
THE CONCRETE FLAMINGO.
London: [Cassell & Company Ltd, 1960]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Hardboiled mystery novel. Originally published in the U.S. as a paperback original titled "ALL THE WAY." Filmed in 1959 as The 3rd Voice starring Edmund O'Brien.
THE DIAMOND BIKINI.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #s607. Paperback original.
FIRES OF YOUTH.
[New York: Magnet Books, 1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. MB #309. Paperback original. A very uncommon book.
GO HOME, STRANGER.
New York: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #371. Paperback original.
MAN IN MOTION.
London: Cassell, 1959. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Published as a paperback original in 1958 under the title Man on the Run.
MIX YOURSELF A REDHEAD.
London: Cassell, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First hardcover edition. Hard boiled. First published as a paperback original in 1954 as A Touch of Death.
STAIN OF SUSPICION.
London: [Cassell & Company Ltd, 1959]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Scarce. Hard Boiled. First published in the U.S. as a paperback original under the title Talk of the Town (1958). Tough San Francisco ex-cop looks under the rocks in a small Florida town and almost gets killed for it. "Williams's usual excellent characterization and ability to create a mood of mounting suspense, plus a tightly knit plot, lift Talk of the Town well above the average paperback original of the Fifties." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 848-849.