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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.
SHARDIK.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
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]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. A Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
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.
NO KIND OF MAN.
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., Publishers, 1973. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Original anthology.
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.
COLD BLOOD.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by editor Chizmar, introducer Douglas E. Winter, and the twenty-five contributors. Original anthology with stories from Nancy Collins, Richard Laymon, F.P. Wilson, Joe Lansdale and 22 others.
COLD BLOOD.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by editor Chizmar, introducer Douglas E. Winter, and the twenty-five contributors. Original anthology with stories from Nancy Collins, Richard Laymon, F.P. Wilson, Joe Lansdale and 22 others.
GHOSTS AND SCHOLARS: GHOST STORIES IN THE TRADITION OF M.R. JAMES.
[Wellingborough, Northamptonshire]: Crucible, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of 26 stories, both new and old, of British ghost fiction. Authors include M. R. James, A. C. Benson, R. H. Benson, Frederick Cowles, Arthur Gray, E. G. Swain and many others. Also included are an essay by M. R. James on the ghost story and a foreword by Michael Cox, biographer of James. Introduction and notes by Richard Dalby and Rosemary Pardoe and a selected bibliography of authors.
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.
VICE-COP.
New York: Belmont Books, 1961. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Hard boiled.
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 HUNTER.
New York: A Permabook Edition Published By Pocket Books, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook # M-4272. Paperback original. The first Parker novel. Filmed several times, Point Blank (1967) and Payback (1999). 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.
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.
RUMORS OF SPRING.
New York: Bantam, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. "..Rumor of Spring is beautifully written and constantly surprising." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-189.