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THE GIRL IN A SWING (Two copies).
[London]: Allen Lane, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First printing with "Allen Lane" on the title page and with the main female character named Käthe. After they are married a couple have haunting and supernatural experiences related to the wife's past. "... the story is sustained by a rich backdrop of art, culture, and religion in which hints of the couple's impending tragedy are continually glimpsed. A surprising mature horror tale from an author best known for his animal fantasy epics..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-2. - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-2. Filmed in 1988 with Meg Tilly.
WATERSHIP DOWN.
London: Rex Collins, 1972. Octavo, boards. First edition. Published 14 November 1972 in an edition of 2500 copies. Winner of the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4B-1. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 51. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 4. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, pp. 2079-83. Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 001.
DEATH STOPS THE BELLS.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
BEARING SECRETS.
New York: Walker, 1996. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. Author's second mystery.
THE INNOCENTS.
New York: Walker, 1995. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first mystery.
KISS AND KILL bound with ON THE HOOK.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition and first paperback edition. Ace double D-47. Paperback original of the Barry novel. The Powell is a reprint, originally published as SHARK RIVER. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 21-22.
THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA.
New York: Warner Books, 1976. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. Sherlockiana.
THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA.
New York: Warner Books, 1976. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. Sherlockiana.
SO THE WIND WON'T BLOW IT ALL AWAY.
[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Post WW II novel concerning the death of a young boy. The author's last novel before his death.
THE BRICK FOXHOLE.
New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Written when the author was a serviceman in the Marines the story has themes of racial bigotry and anti-Semitism and centers on homophobia and murder. Source for the noir film "Crossfire" (1947), which changed the theme to anti-semitism. Brooks wrote two more novels and had a very successful career in the film industry as a writer, director and producer. Hubin, p. 106. Selby, Dark City: The Film Noir, 85. Silver and Ward (eds.), Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd edition), pp. 73-74. Johnson, The Dark Page, p. 34.
COLD BLOOD.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology with stories from Nancy Collins, Richard Laymon, F.P. Wilson, Joe Lansdale and 22 others.
THE EARTH STRIKES BACK: NEW TALES OF ECOLOGICAL HORROR.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1994. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Original anthology with twenty stories by Dan Simmons, Norman Partridge, Poppy Z. Brite, Charles De Lint and others. Trade paperback format. There was no hardbound issue of this book.
BREAKTHROUGH.
London: Dennis Dobson, [1967]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first SF novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-152.
THE CUSTODIANS AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first SF short story collection. "Four long tales, including the much-lauded "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" which proved to be the overture to his "White Bird of Kinship" trilogy of novels. Also outstanding is the title story, with its medieval setting and its message for the twentieth century." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 83. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-284.
THE CUSTODIANS AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first SF short story collection. "Four long tales, including the much-lauded "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" which proved to be the overture to his "White Bird of Kinship" trilogy of novels. Also outstanding is the title story, with its medieval setting and its message for the twentieth century." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 83. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-284.
THE ROAD TO CORLAY.
New York: Pocket Books, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. First printing with code "J 47" on page 209. First book of "The White Bird of Kinship" trilogy. 1979 Nebula nominee. Religious dystopia. "A thousand years hence an inundated Britain consists of many small islands, where a neo-medieval, theocratic society is disrupted by the coming of a millenarian cult which holds out the hope of social and spiritual renewal. Well-written, rather touching sf of a backward-looking pastoral sort." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 307. Text expanded, adds the prologue "Piper at the Gates of Dawn." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-285. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions.
THE EXILES AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-221 [222: blank] [223-224: ads], 17 inserted plates, original decorated green cloth, front panel stamped in dark green, silver and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in silver on rear cover. First edition. Collects seven fictions. BAL 4517. Wright (III) 1433.
THE BLACK ICE SCORE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #D1949. Paperback original. The eleventh Parker novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 1039-1041.
THE SCORE.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pocketbook # 35014. Paperback original. A Parker novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 1039-1041.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A. CONAN DOYLE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Foreword by Graham Greene. The Definitive Doyle bibliography.
YOUNG VISITOR TO MARS.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.d. (1950's). Octavo, Hardcover. Reprint. A "Young Hero's Library" volume.
THE LAUGHING BUDDHA MURDERS.
New York: Vulcan Publications, Inc., [1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest size magazine paperback original. Chin Kham is a detective who is also a Buddhist Lama. Reminiscent of the Green Lama pulp tales that the author also wrote. Hubin, p. 299.
IAN FLEMING: THE FANTASTIC 007 MAN.
New York: Lancer Books, 1966. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition.
YOU PLAY THE BLACK AND THE RED COMES UP.
NY: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1938. Octavo, [1-8] 1-213 [214-216, blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Classic hardboiled mystery novel set in Southern California. From a new essay on the book by Woody Haut at the online Los Angeles Review of Books (7/29/11) -"The book does read like James Cain filtered through Thomas Pynchon. Although Knight’s first person narrative begins in typical tough-guy fashion, with Dick Dempsey, an Oklahoma-born AWOL Marine hopping a freight in Texas for Southern California in pursuit of his wife and son, it soon moves off in another, wilder direction — more like a noir Alice in Lotus Land than a cool and conventional hardboiled novel." The author's only mystery novel, best known for creating the character Lassie the dog.
CURIOS: SOME STRANGE ADVENTURES OF TWO BACHELORS ...
London: John Long, 1898. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [7] 8-287 [288: blank] + eight-page publisher's catalogue dated "October 1898" inserted at rear, title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial dark gray cloth, front panel stamped in light gray, black, red and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear cover, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Linked series of seven tales featuring two curio hunters, mostly criminous encounters excepting the sixth episode, "The Adventure of Lady Wishaw's Hand," in which a malevolent medieval relic (the severed hand of an ancestor) continues to punish those family members who do not honor an ancestral feud. The first episode, "The Adventure of the Pipe," is a rationalized supernatural story about a "haunted" meerschaum pipe with a loathsome tentacled creature carved on the bowl that moves when the pipe is smoked. "... there was a lot more to Marsh than THE BEETLE ... Marsh is an unfairly neglected writer who will repay the effort of getting his books." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 283. Bleiler, The Guide to the Supernatural Fiction 1112. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 352. Hubin (1994), p. 553. Wolff 4563.