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A PARADE OF COCKEYED CREATURES, OR DID SOMEONE MURDER OUR WANDERING BOY?
New York: Random House, 1967. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Detective Max Van Larsen/Sylvia Plotkin thriller. An Edgar nominee for best novel.
TRAIN'S TRUST: A WESTERN STORY.
New York: Chelsea House, 1926. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
SPURIOUS SUN.
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Apocalyptic novel in which an experimental station in Scotland blows up causing an uncontrolled atomic chain reaction, the stratosphere ignites. "...the world suffers an explosion of insane wars, including a nuclear attack on Canada by the U.S. The ensuing panic prompts mass suicides, death cults, sadism, torture and plagues caused by mutated bacteria."-Brians: Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction 1895-1984. pp. 140.
NO MORE A CORPSE: AN ASTOUNDING STORY.
New York: Alfred H. King, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-311 [312: blank], original gray cloth, spine and front cover stamped in red, top edge stained gray, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First U. S. edition. In a hoax a modern scientist supposedly brings George Washington back to life. First published in ARGOSY-ALL-STORY 15 October - 19 November 1927. "Journalism and science in the Roaring Twenties ... Competent commercial Munsey fiction, with some good touches." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 264. Hubin, p. 100.
SIBYL SUE BLUE.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966. Octavo, illustration by John Alcorn, cloth. First edition.
TOO TOUGH TO DIE.
New York: The William Caslon Company, Inc., [1936]. Octavo, [1-10] 11-252 [253-256:blank], jacket illustration by Hubert Rogers, cloth. First edition. Harboiled mystery. Presented as a novel this is in fact a collection of four 'Red Lacey' stories several of which first appeared in Popular Detective pulp magazine. The Caslon Company only published 3 books, all in 1936. WorldCat indicates just four holdings in U.S. libraries. Bruce was a regular contributor to the pulps with stories in many of the detective titles.
GASCOIGNE'S GHOST.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-216, original orange cloth, front stamped in gold and green, spine stamped in gold. First U. S. edition. A father and son are involved in a small newspaper. Though listed in the first Bleiler checklist, this has no fantasy or supernatural content.
FAST ONE.
New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. Avon #178. First Avon paperback edition, preceded in softcover by the Shaw Press digest edition. Classic hardboiled novel.
SEVEN SLAYERS.
New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1950]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. Avon #268. First trade paperback edition, preceded by a digest size format edition. Story collection.
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SEVEN [7] SLAYERS.
[Harpenden, Herts.]: No Exit Press, [1988]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British paperback edition. Trade paperback. Story collection, all from Black Mask magazine.
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SEVEN [7] SLAYERS.
Hollywood, CA: Saint Enterprises Inc., [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original, digest size format. Story collection, all from Black Mask magazine. Hubin, p. 125.
CITY OF WHISPERING STONE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Mongo novel.
IN THE HOUSE OF SECRET ENEMIES.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Mongo mystery.
SECOND HORSEMAN OUT OF EDEN.
New York: Atheneum, 1989. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Mongo mystery.
SHADOW OF A BROKEN MAN.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Mongo mystery novel.
VEIL.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The first Veil Kendry mystery.
FLASH CASEY...DETECTIVE.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Murder Mystery Monthly 39. Paperback original. Digest size format. Collection of four Flash Casey stories. Hubin, p. 194.
FOUR FRIGHTENED WOMEN.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-303[304: Printer's information][305-306: blank], dust jacket art by arthur hawkins, original yellow-orange cloth, front and spine stamped in blue, borzoi design to rear panel stamped in blue, top edge stained red. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and dated in 1938 by Coxe to his former Black Mask editor Joseph T. Shaw. Coxe's first contributions to Black Mask were under the editorship of Joseph "Cap" Shaw. This is the fourth Kent Murdock novel. Hubin, p. 194.
MISSION OF FEAR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Murder and blackmail, and a dead man-who may still be alive. Hubin, p. 194.
MURDER FOR TWO.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-238 [239: blank] [240: Printer's information][241-244: blank], dust jacket art by arthur hawkins, original green cloth, front and spine and borzoi design to rear panel stamped in reddish-brown. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and dated in 1943 by Coxe to his former Black Mask editor Joseph T. Shaw. Coxe's first contributions to Black Mask were under the editorship of Joseph "Cap" Shaw. The second Flash Casey novel. Hubin, p. 194.
NEVER BET YOUR LIFE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel set in Florida. Hubin, p. 194.
ONE HOUR TO KILL.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Murder and blackmail, and a dead man-who may still be alive. Hubin, p. 194.
UNINVITED GUEST.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel set in Barbados. Hubin, p. 194.
THE CONAN SWORDBOOK: 27 EXAMINATIONS OF HEROIC FICTION...
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1969. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow and others, cloth. First edition. One of 1500 numbered copies (1485). 1500 copies printed. Essays and articles by Howard, Leiber, de Camp, Poul Anderson and others on heroic fantasy with emphasis on the writings of Robert E. Howard.
THE GREAT ONES.
London: Panther Books Hamilton & Co., (Stafford) Ltd., [1954]. Octavo, cover by Ronald Turner, pictorial wrappers. First edition, paperback issue. Panther No. 58. The ninth and final novel (a series story appeared in 1957) in the "Old Growler" series. "Bent on conquest, they sprang from the mists of legend into terrifying reality-the Great Ones from the Andromeda Galaxy were to return." - Harbottle and Holland. Harbottle and Holland A335. Reginald 12947.