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PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "A Planet Named Joe" by S. A. Lombino, an early published story by the author who would change his name to Evan Hunter and achieve more fame writing as Ed McBain. Also includes a Leigh Brackett story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
JUNGLE STORIES.
New York: Glen-Kel Pub. Co., Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Ki-Gor, Jungle Lord.
JUNGLE STORIES.
New York: Glen-Kel Pub. Co., Inc., 1952. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Ki-Gor, Jungle Lord.
A BOOK OF BARGAINS ...
London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-185 [186: blank] [187: printer's imprint] [188: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece with black and white illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, original maroon buckram, front and spine panels stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Collection of morbid studies, written under the shadow of Poe but distinctly fin de siecle in their sin-soaked diabolism. The after-death nightmare "When I Was Dead" is a minor masterpiece. Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), American-born writer, long resident in Europe, was "a central figure of the English Decadent Movement, his early books of (mostly fantastic) verse -- POEMS (1896) and THE HOUSES OF SIN (1897) -- being among the movement's key documents, as was his first story collection, A BOOK OF BARGAINS (1896)." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 738. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1285. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 170. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 316. Bleiler (1978), p. 170. Reginald 11051. Hubin (1994), p. 621.
MASTER OF FALLEN YEARS: COMPLETE SUPERNATURAL STORIES OF VINCENT O'SULLIVAN edited, with an introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
[London]: Ghost Story Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies. Collects fifteen stories and eight poems with preface and postscript by O'Sullivan.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Infinites" by Philip K. Dick (his third appearance in Planet). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "James P. Crow" by Philip K. Dick. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1952. Octavo, single issue, cover by Vestal, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Incudes Philip K. Dick"s second professionally published story, "The Gun." Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Robert Sheckley. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Robert Sheckley. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Leigh Brackett story. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1955. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Algis Budrys, Poul Anderson and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by Freas (mistakenly credited to Algis Budrys), pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Leigh Brackett story as well as early fiction by Michael Shaara (who would write THE KILLER ANGELS). Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1954. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury (first appeared in Collier's magazine in 1952) and "The Crystal Crypt" by Philip K. Dick. Also a Leigh Brackett story. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481.
THE PENGUIN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL.
[New York]: Viking, [1986]. Large octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first attempt to produce a true encyclopedia of the literature of fear: supernatural and psychological. Provides about 650 entries written by 65 contributors (including Sullivan) that, with a few exceptions, fall into three categories: Authors (writers, artists and illustrators, composers and others); films (131 entries for individual films, plus several more combined in an essay "Dracula on Film"); and themes (54 essays on architecture, mad doctors, special effects and other topics). The encyclopedia has been criticized for lack of editorial balance, but deficiencies are offset by excellent critical essays by E. F. Bleiler and others and entries (e.g. Richard Dalby on Arthur R. Ropes) that provide information not found elsewhere. "Unlike too many fantasy-horror reference works, this encyclopedia gives considerable coverage to poetry themes, as well as to individual poets." - Steve Eng. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-31. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-31. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 17.
THE CALLING OF BARA.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Dystopian novel of the near future, set in the year 2044 where anarchy reigns as government has collapsed. General malaise and economic tribulation contribute to the decline. Published in the U. K. as SUMMER RISING.
LETHE.
London: Gollancz, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first book.
THE JADE GOD.
New York and London: Published by The Century Co., [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-312 [313-314: blank]. original yellow cloth, front stamped n black and light green, spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Weird mystery novel. From the front flap: "The story, as its title indicates, centers upon a jade god, made by one Lung Sen..." ...[it] seems to reach out, exerting powerful influence over strange and mysterious events..." "The author makes bold and clever use of modern knowledgeof telepathy, and he succeeds in conveying something of the atmosphere of the East which is so alluringly romantic to Occidental eyes." Source for a Broadway play of the same title. Bleiler (1978), p. 189. Reginald 13852.
TOPS IN SCIENCE FICTION.
Stamford, CT: Love Romances Co., Inc., 1954. Octavo, single issue, cover by A. Leydenfrost, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. One of two issues produced, this is the only pulp issue. Contents are a reprints from Planet Stories issues ranging from 1942-1950. Fiction by Leigh Brackett, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Nelson Bond, Alfred Coppel and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 675-676.