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AT THE VILLA ROSE.
New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1910. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The first Hanaud mystery. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
THE HOUSE IN LORDSHIP LANE.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Inspector Hanaud novel.
THE PRISONER IN THE OPAL.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Formerly the Adrian Goldstone copy with his bookplate to front paste down. The third Hanaud novel. Mystery involving Devil worship.
ARACHNE.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1990]. Octavo, First edition. The author's first novel. A hip, intense SF novel about artificial intelligence, in the cyberpunk mode of William Gibson's "Neuromancer" trilogy. Reginald 29195. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
SUMMER OF LOVE ...
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1994]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. "Mason's immersion in the honeypot culture of California intensifies if anything in her second series, the Zhu Wong sequence comprising SUMMER OF LOVE (1994), THE GOLDEN NINETIES (1995) and THE GILDED AGE: A TIME TRAVEL (2011), in which a time traveler from half a millennium hence spends time with some rather attractive 1960s countercultural San Franciscans, though darker realities loom: the future is due to suffer radical Climate Change and other crises, and the visitor from the future is in fact engaging in a Changewar to save the world ..." (SFE online). "Mason may now seem significant for her competent handling of the SF Megatext in the kitchen-sink manner found in some of the best genre SF authors who came to prominence in the late twentieth-century. Equally important, however, is the warmth and intensity of her vision of California in its prime" (John Clute). Trade paperback format. Not published in hardcover.
AND TWO SHALL MEET.
New York: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #395. Paperback original. The author's first novel. Hubin, p. 559.
FOREVER IS TODAY.
New York: Gold Medal Books / Fawcett Publications Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Meese, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #468. Paperback original. Crime novel. Hubin, p. 559.
THE CASTLE ISLAND CASE...with Candid Camera Clues by Henry Clay Gipson.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1937]. Large octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-185 [186-189] [190: blank] [191: Acknowledgments] [192: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. A mystery told with the aid of photographic illustrations.
WHO'D SHOOT A GENIUS?
New York: Random House, [1940]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The first Quentin Toby mystery novel.