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THE [complete] LUCKY STARR SERIES: DAVID STARR: SPACE RANGER, LUCKY STARR AND THE PIRATES OF THE ASTEROIDS, LUCKY STARR AND THE OCEANS OF VENUS, LUCKY STARR AND THE BIG SUN OF MERCURY, LUCKY STARR AND THE MOONS OF JUPITER, LUCKY STARR AND THE RINGS OF SATURN. (6 volumes).
Boston: Twayne Publishers [Gregg Press], [1978]. Octavo, cloth. Later editions. First editions by this publisher. First published by Doubleday as by "Paul French," ( pseudonym). The complete Lucky Starr series. New preface by Isaac Asimov.
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 [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.
SEVEN SLAYERS.
Los Angeles: Blood & Guts Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One thousand copies printed, this is one of 250 numbered and signed by the author of the introduction William F. Nolan. This is copy number 11. Story collection, all hard boiled, all first published in Black Mask magazine.
THE WORLD AT BAY.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1954]. Octavo, cover illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction.
THE LOST PLANET.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1956]. Octavo, illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction.
THE LOST PLANET.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1957]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. Later, second printing. A clandestine band of humans work behind the scenes to prevent a war between Earth and the octopus-like inhabitants of Poseida. Part of the popular Winston juvenile series published between 1952-1961, which introduced many young readers to science fiction.
FRACTAL PAISLEYS.
New York / London: [Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997]. First edition. Collects ten stories, two original to this volume. Humorous sf stories, called by the author "trailer park science fiction."
THE STEAMPUNK TRILOGY: VICTORIA, HOTTENTOTS, WALT AND EMILY.
New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-323.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1974.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by William Gibson. Chronologically volume 3 in the series of six books.
THE SELECTED LETTERS OF PHILIP K. DICK: 1974.
Novato, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. Foreword by William Gibson. Chronologically volume 3 in the series of six books.
IN OLD PLANTATION DAYS ...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. Octavo, ten inserted plates with illustrations by Martin Justice, original pictorial brown cloth stamped in green, black and gold, color illustration pasted to front cover. First edition. A collection of short fiction. In the book of AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY (1922) Dunbar's friend James Weldon Johnson wrote - "Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote, and to maintain a high level of performance. He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor, its superstitions, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form." Laurence Dunbar was listed in Molefi Kete Asante book 100 GREATEST AFRICAN AMERICANS. His legacy also includes a number of schools are named after him. BAL 4946 (noted printing 1, binding A). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 D-597.
THE BRONZE MERMAID.
New York: The M. S. Mill Co., and William Morrow & Company, 1952. Octavo, boards. First edition. Lt. Ryan of homicide, a character in the author's first novel solves crime. The author's second mystery. Ernst was a long time writer for pulp magazines, including Amazing, Astounding and Weird Tales. He is best known for writing The Avenger pulp series using the Kenneth Robeson pseudonym. Hubin, p. 268.
AFTER SHOCKS.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. A collection of the author's supernatural stories, his first. Winner of the 2001 British Fantasy Award for best collection.
[North Montpelier, Vermont: W. Paul Cook], 1943-1947. Large octavo, five issues, printed wrappers. First edition. A complete file. W. Paul Cook, an important member of the Lovecraft inner circle, and an ardent member of the amateur press movement, issued five numbers of this periodical between Spring 1943 and July 1947 (making it a defacto annual). The fifth number was not distributed, and none of the numbers were offered for sale. The magazine was devoted to weird literature and featured fiction, poetry, essays and, in one number, a short play. Highlights include "Lovecraft and Benefit Street" by Dorothy C. Walter, a long article by E. Hoffman Price on Farnsworth Wright and WEIRD TALES, "The Sphinx", a play by Samuel Loveman, an important long essay and bibliography "The Weird Tale in English Since 1890" by August Derleth (his B.A. thesis at the University of Wisconsin in 1930), a memoir of Robert E. Howard by E. Hoffman Price incorporating REH letters, and a group of reminiscences of the noted amateur press critic James Morton. "Cook's final major publishing effort was THE GHOST. Five issues appeared from 1943 to 1947, each containing fifty pages that emphasized Lovecraft and collectors. It contained almost every type of verse, fiction, biography, and literary reminiscing, turning it into one of the rarest, most sought-after bits of Lovecraftiana." - Warner, All Our Yesterdays, p. 16. Quite a valuable source of information. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 49 (not listing the fifth issue). Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 804. Joshi III-D-123, 185 and 626.
THE FINNBRANCH TRILOGY: YEARWOOD, UNDERSEA & WINTERKING.
Boston / New York: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1980, 1982, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First editions. "Remarkably realistic trilogy set in the twilight days of the Celtic Bronze age." "Hazel's dark vision is a disturbingly powerful one..." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-134.
THE WEALDWIFE'S TALE.
New York: Morrow, 1993. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof.
WINTERKING.
Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown:, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Volume three of the Finnbranch trilogy. "Hazel's dark vision is a disturbingly powerful one..." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-134.
THE ADVENTURES OF THE STALWART COMPANIONS:HERETOFORE UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND PAPERS CONCERNING A SINGULAR COLLABORATION BETWEEN THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND SHERLOCK HOLMES.
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper and Row Publishers, [1978]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Sherlock Holmes and Theodore Roosevelt investigate in New York City.
MURDER ON MIKE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Period detective novel set in 1939, second Harry McNeil novel. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 410-411.
NOT COMIN' HOME TO YOU.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Last of the three novels using this pseudonym. About a killing spree by two young people in the southwest.
SUCH MEN ARE DANGEROUS.
[New York]: The Macmillan Company, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Block on the title page. The first of three books as Paul Kavanagh.
CHILD OF THE RIVER.
[New York]: Avon Eos, [1998]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Advance uncorrected proof. First novel in the Confluence series.
ETERNAL LIGHT.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1991. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to FOUR HUNDRED BILLION STARS. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-288.
FAIRYLAND.
New York: Avon Books, 1996. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Advance reading copy (uncorrected proof). "McAuley posits a twenty-first century in which half of Europe has become rich through nanotechnology and the creation of genetically engineered dolls that provide slave labor, while the rest of the population have been made homeless by war and economic upheaval. When Milena learns how to give the dolls intelligence, a new race comes into being. Through the medium of the dolls, or 'fairies,' McAuley addresses issues of autonomy, physical and intellectual, for genetically engineered humans, blending these with humanity's age-old belief in fairyfolk and dreams of creating new forms of life." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-730. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.