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THE CHALLENGE FROM BEYOND.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. New edition. In 1935 Fantasy Magazine asked 5 weird fiction writers and 5 science fiction writers to write two collaborative stories around the title The Challenge From Beyond. Presented here is both versions. (Necronomincon Press previously published this in an illustrated edition in 1978).
THE BLACK FLAME ...
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 copies with inserted numbered limitation plate. Post apocalyptic story set in the future concerning a family of immortals who seek to conquer the world. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1221. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 238-41. In 333.
THE DARK OTHER.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First binding of blue cloth with spine panel stamped in black. From an unpublished manuscript first written in the 1920s titled "The Mad Brain." A horror novel, edited for publication by Forrest J Ackerman. In 333.
DAWN OF FLAME AND OTHER STORIES.
[Jamaica, N.Y. Printed by Rupert Printing Service, 1936.]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-313 [314-315: blank] [316: colophon], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of Weinbaum), original black fabrikoid, front panel stamped in gold, all edges stained red. First edition. The author's posthumous first book. This memorial volume collecting seven short stories and novelettes by Weinbaum, including the first book appearance of his classic "A Martian Odyssey," was prepared by the Milwaukee Fictioneers, an informal fan group of which Weinbaum was a member. 500 copies were printed, but only 250 were bound. Five of the bound copies have an introduction by Raymond A. Palmer, the remainder (including this one) have one by Lawrence Keating.
THE KING'S WATCH.
[Rochester, MI]: Posthumous Press, 1994. Small octavo, First edition. Limited to 85 copies signed by introducer Robert Bloch. The first Posthumous Press book. First publication of a hard-boiled detective story. Tipped in reproduction of a photograph of the Milwaukee Fictioneers.
A MARTIAN ODYSSEY AND OTHERS.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-66; (1981) 2-114; (1987) 2-125; (1995) 2-135; and (2004) II-1222. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 224. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1353-56.
A MARTIAN ODYSSEY AND OTHERS.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1949. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies with a special inserted limitation leaf with a picture of Weinbaum and a biography. Collects twelve stories, all published 1934-1936. "Weinbaum set important precedents with his blithely exotic accounts of alien life, the first in pulp magazines to exhibit a rudimentary awareness of ecological issues" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1222. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-66; (1981) 2-114; (1987) 2-125; (1995) 2-135. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 224. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1353-56.
THE RED PERI.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Currey "A" binding.
THE RED PERI.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1952. Octavo, illustration by John T. Brooks, cloth. First edition. Story collection. Currey "A" binding.
THE RED PERI.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1952. Octavo, illustration by John T. Brooks, cloth. First edition. One of 300 special copies with numbered limitation leaf inserted. Collects eight stories.
THE RED PERI.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1952. Octavo, jacket illustration by John T. Brooks, cloth. First edition. Collect eight stories first published in the pulps, 1935-1938. In writing of the author's two collections, this one and A MARTIAN ODYSSEY (1949), Pringle writes: "The author died in 1935, after a writing career of less than two years. Nevertheless as Asimov points out, Weinbaum revolutionized the field of American magazine sf with his humorous, slickly written tales of sympathetic aliens and other interplanetary wonders. Most of these stories still hold up well today: in the 30s they were a revelation." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 36. Currey "A" binding.