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SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Milton Luros, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Reaching for the Moon" by S[alvatore]. A[lberto]. Lombino, who would change his name to Evan Hunter and become well known using his pseudonym "Ed McBain" - this is his first published story. Other authors in this issue, George O. Smith, Stephen Marlowe, Lester Del Rey and other. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF pulp magazine, the last issue in 1958. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "A Planet Named Joe" by S. A. Lombino, an early published story by the author who would change his name to Evan Hunter and achieve more fame writing as Ed McBain. Also includes a Leigh Brackett story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
SEE THEM DIE ...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct mystery novel.
'TIL DEATH ...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct mystery novel.
VANISHING LADIES.
[London: T.V. Boardman & Company, Limited, 1961]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Signed on the title page: "Evan / "Richard Marsten" / Hunter." Part of the Boardman American Bloodhound Mystery series.
BUDDWING.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
DON'T CROWD ME.
New York: Popular Library, [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library #478. Paperback original. McBain signature laid in. The author's second mystery novel.
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Hunter on the half title page. The author's first book. "A time travel tale involving a Wellsian time machine." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-78.
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Henry Sharp, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. "A time travel tale involving a Wellsian time machine." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-78.
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Henry Sharp, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Hunter to a well known collector and bookseller George Locke on half title leaf. A time travel tale involving ancient Vikings and Mayans and two twentieth-century time travelers in the Caribbean. The author’s first book. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.
FIND THE FEATHERED SERPENT.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Henry Sharp, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. "A time travel tale involving a Wellsian time machine." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-78. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.
A MATTER OF CONVICTION.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
SECOND ENDING.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Hunter on the title page.
MURDER IN THE NAVY.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #507. Paperback original.
ROCKET TO LUNA.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. Later, second printing. Earth's first mission to the Moon goes awry when their crippled ship crash lands on the lunar surface and the astronauts are stranded there. This author gained vast popularity writing under his well-known pseudonym of Ed McBain, he has three books in the Winston series (one under his real name). Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction.
VANISHING LADIES.
New York: Perma Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3097. Paperback original. Hardboiled mystery novel.
THE 87TH PRECINCT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Omnibus volume with the first U.S. hardcover publications of COP HATER, THE MUGGER and THE PUSHER, which were first published as paperback originals.
THE 87TH PRECINCT.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Octavo, boards. First combined (and first hardcover) edition. Omnibus volume collecting COP HATER, THE MUGGER and THE PUSHER, all first published as paperback originals.
THE 87TH SQUAD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. Signed on the front free endpaper-"Evan / "Ed McBain" / Hunter." Omnibus volume with the first U.S. hardcover publications of THE CON MAN and KILLER'S CHOICE which were first published as paperback originals.
AX.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. 87th Precinct.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matthew Hope novel.
BLOOD RELATIVES.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed on the half title page by McBain. An 87th Precinct novel. Filmed in 1978 with Donald Sutherland with the setting moved to Montreal.
BREAD.
New York: Random House, [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
CINDERFELLA.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Matthew Hope novel.
THE CON MAN.
New York: Perma Books, 1957. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Perma Books #M-3055. Paperback original. The fourth 87th Precinct novel.