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THE DEVIL TREE OF EL DORADO.
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, [1897]. Octavo, original brown cloth stamped in gold and bronze to front cover and spine. First edition. Lost race novel. "Youthful explorers find a lost city in Venezuela on Mount Raraima, the same site Conan Doyle was to use in The Lost World." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-5.
THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1995]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Barry Malzberg. 1955 Hugo Award winner. Part of the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series.
THEY'D RATHER BE RIGHT.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., Publishers, 1957. Octavo, boards. First edition. A supercomputer helps humans attain paranormal powers and longevity. Winner of the 1955 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-262. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 250. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2255-59.
MODERN MASTERS OF HORROR.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Partially original anthology of fifteen stories. Includes the first hardcover appearances of "The Monkey" by Stephen King, "The Champion" by Richard Laymon, & "Makeup" by Robert McCammon. Other fiction by Davis Grubb, graham Masterton, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch and more. One of the better horror anthologies of the eighties.
GANGLAND'S DOOM: THE SHADOW OF THE PULPS.
N.p. Robert Weinberg Publisher, 1974. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pictorial wrappers, original paperbound booklet. Signed inscription on the front cover by Walter Gibson, author the Shadow novels (also signed as Maxwell Grant).
MAMMOTH DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Compnay, 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Hard boiled novelette by Frank Gruber (Johnny Fletcher), "Whispering Master." Also a story by William McGivern.
STARTLING STORIES.
Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Alex Schomburg, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by L. Sprague De Camp, Leigh Brackett, Frank Herbert and others. The Herbert story, "Looking For Something" is his first published science fiction story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.
ALAS, BABYLON.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Post nuclear holocaust novel. A group of survivors in Florida cope with the aftermath, and day to day survival. A well received novel with a warning toward nuclear war as well as an ethical statement on the responsibility of citizens toward the prevention of one. Magill: Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Volume 1, pp. 38-42. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-74. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 29.
WHITE INDIAN.
Toronto: Comic and Crypt Publications, 1972. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Contains a White Indian story, a Thunda story and another feature.
ICON: A RETROSPECTIVE... with LEGACY: SELECTED DRAWINGS AND OF FRANK FRAZETTA with TESTAMENT: A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND ART OF FRANK FRAZETTA. 3 volumes.
Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1998, 1999, 2001. 3 volumes, pictorial boards. First trade editions. All three volumes produced by Underwood Books. Besides much of his legendary work the volumes include work previously unpublished and work that has not been published in any previous Frazetta art book as well as revised works and essays about Frazetta and his art.
PERFUMED bound with THE WILD WEEK.
[New York: Tower Publications, Inc., 1963]. Small octavo, illustrations by Frank Frazetta, pictorial wrappers. First thus. Midwood #34-612. First combination of two previously published novels. Two novels bound together. 8 inserted full page ink illustrations by Frank Frazetta. Scarce.
FRANK KELLY FREAS: THE ART OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Norfolk: Donning, [1977]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. A sampling of the artists illustrations over a 25 year period.
THE CRIME CLUB: A STORY OF CRIME...
[Glasgow]: The Detective Story Club Ltd. for Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., nd, [c. 1929]. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-246, original black boards, front and spine stamped in gold. Later edition. An early volume in Collins Detective Story Club series which was the precursor to the Collins Crime Club. Collects twelve stories in chapter format.
BRASS KNUCKLES: THE OLIVER QUADE HUMAN ENCYCLOPEDIA STORIES.
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Includes a foreword: The Life and Times of the Pulp Story. Collection of stories from Black Mask Magazine except for one which was printed in Thrilling Detective magazine.
BROTHERS OF SILENCE.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Gruber, "To/---/with the/best wishes/of/Frank Gruber."
THE BUFFALO BOX.
New York: Bantam Books, [1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 50. A Simon Lash mystery.
THE GIFT HORSE: A JOHNNY FLETCHER MYSTERY.
New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., [1942]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg mystery concerning a race horse.
THE JESUS INCIDENT.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Herbert on the title page. A sequel to Herbert's DESTINATION: VOID (1966). "The earlier novel's star-farers and their godlike computer arrive at the planet Pandora, where they come into conflict with some particularly vile life-forms. An ineffective adventure, but stuffed with ideas." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 195. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-267.
THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1977]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Herbert, dated 1977, on the title page. THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT, a sequel to WHIPPING STAR, is a detailed examination of alien intelligence. "Among contemporary sf writers only Ian Watson has addressed this theme as frequently and as convincingly." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 559.
THE DRAGON IN THE SEA.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956. Octavo, illustration by Mel Hunter, boards. First edition. Author's first science fiction book. Good first novel of a submarine on a sensitive mission and the extreme stress on the crew. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-523. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 595-99.
EYE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, illustrations by Jim Burns, boards. First British edition. Collects thirteen stories. Includes "The Road to Dune" a short guide with numerous illustrations and a six page introduction by Herbert in which he writes about the production of the David Lynch film.
EYE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, illustrations by Jim Burns, boards. First British edition. Collects eleven stories, an excerpt from the novel THE DRAGON IN THE SEA, and excerpts from an illustrated tourist guide to the world of Dune. A collection of short fiction by "a major SF novelist who really was not a short-story writer ... Minor stuff." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 126.
GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1981]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Signed by Herbert on the title page. Fourth Dune novel. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 407. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-524.
HELLSTROM'S HIVE.
[London]: New English Library, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Inscribed and signed by Herbert on the title page. "A scientist runs an underground project which is designed to further the next stage in human evolution. This is a powerful story which investigates the psychology of "hive" behavior in human beings (analogous to the societies of insects)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 171. Somewhat of a novelization suggested by the script of the film "The Hellstrom Chronicle" (1971). This edition preceded by the Science Fiction Book Club and the mass market paperback editions.
THE PRIESTS OF PSI AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Herbert. Collects five stories, three appearing here for the first time in a book and another collected here for the first time in a book solely by Herbert.