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SHERLOCK HOLMES'S WAR OF THE WORLDS.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Warner Books 76-982. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Manly Wade Wellman on the title page. Collection of short stories relating to how Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Professor Challenger fought the Martian invasion first chronicled in H.G. Wells's WAR OF THE WORLDS.
ROMANCE IN BLACK.
London: Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d., [1946]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3-64, pictorial wrappers. First edition. An association copy inscribed and signed by Wellman to friend and and fellow North Carolina author Karl Edward Wagner (using a nickname "The Big Dutchman"). A pirated printing of "The Black Drama," a Judge Pursuivant novella first published as a three-part serial in WEIRD TALES in 1938. A weird bibliomystery about Lord Byron, undead and nearly 150 years old, and "Ruthven," a play he has recently written, which will open on his 150th birthday with sinister results for one of the actors. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 83. Reginald 15001.
LONELY VIGILS.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carcosa, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Subscriber's copy with illustrated sheet signed by Wellman and artist George Evans affixed to front free endpaper. Collects twenty occult detective stories featuring Judge Pursuivant or John Thunstone, one featuring Professor Enderby, most first published in WEIRD TALES between 1938 and 1951. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-207.
THE SCHOOL OF DARKNESS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. A John Thunstone novel. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-318.
THE SCHOOL OF DARKNESS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. A John Thunstone novel. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-318.
SOJARR OF TITAN.
New York: Crestwood Publishing, n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels No. 11. Paperback orginal, digest size format. The author's first SF novel, preceded by two booklets printing short fiction.
SOJARR OF TITAN.
New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels #11. Signed inscription by Wellman on the title page: "Good luck / John! / Manly Wade Wellman / Jan 1, 1977." Digest size format. The author's first SF novel, preceded by two booklets printing short fiction. Reginald 14996.
SOJARR OF TITAN.
New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels No. 11. Paperback orginal, digest size format. The author's first SF novel, preceded by two booklets printing short fiction. Space adventure set on Saturn's moon, Titan.
SOJARR OF TITAN.
New York: Crestwood Publishing Co., Inc., n.d., [1949]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Prize Science-Fiction Novels No. 11. Paperback original, digest size format. The author's first SF novel, preceded by two booklets printing short fiction. Space adventure set on Saturn's moon, Titan.
WHO FEARS THE DEVIL?
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Inscribed by Wellman on the title page. A collection of short fiction featuring Silver John, the wandering ballad-singer of the Southern mountains. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-316. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #1671.
WHO FEARS THE DEVIL?
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of short fiction featuring Silver John, the wandering ballad-singer of the Southern mountains. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-316. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #1671.
WORSE THINGS WAITING.
Chapel Hill, NC: Carcosa House, 1973. Octavo, illustrations by Lee Brown Coye, cloth. First edition. Collection of short stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES. "The most interesting tales are those that deploy folkloristic themes in an American context . Though many of the stories are hackwork, Wellman's exercises in supernatural Americana have a certain fascination, and their plots are sometimes sharpened by awkward moral dilemmas." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-160. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-207. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1672. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 70. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-223.
FIND MY KILLER.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Company, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Locked room mystery with hard boiled action. The author's first hardcover mystery novel. Adey, Locked Room Murders and Other Impossible Crimes (1991), 1902. Hubin, p. 849.