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BLACK LIGHT.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1930]. Octavo, original black cloth, stamped in red. First edition. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Literature #1211.
I SAY SUNRISE.
Philadelphia: Milton F. Wells, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Non-fiction posthumous book published from the author's notes concerning his personal philosophy.
JIMGRIM AND ALLAH'S PEACE.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1936. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Jimgrim adventure.
JIMGRIM AND ALLAH'S PEACE.
New York, London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-279 [280: blank], original brown cloth, spine panel stained black with gold stamping, fore and bottom edges rough untrimmed. First U.S. edition, first printing with "(1)" at base of text on page 279. In the scarce variant publisher's binding of brown cloth with spine panel stained black and stamped in gold. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 801-04. Grant, p. 192.
JIMGRIM AND ALLAH'S PEACE.
New York, London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-279 [280: blank], original pictorial yellow cloth, front panel stamped in red and black, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First U. S. edition. Adventure novel set in the Middle East after WW I. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 801-04. Grant, p. 192.
PURPLE PIRATE.
New York, London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1936. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-367 [368-370: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial yellow cloth, front panel stamped in red and black, spine panel stamped in black, fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. First printing with "(1)" on page 367. The third Tros novel, a historical romance set in the tumultuous Roman Empire after the death of Julius Caesar. "Tros of Samothrace..., Queen Cleopatra and Purple Pirate, are a fascinating alternative portrayal of ancient Britain, Egypt and the last days of the Roman republic." Pringle (ed.) St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, p. 432-34. Grant, p. 202. In 333.
TROS OF SAMOTHRACE.
New York, London: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] 1-949 [950: blank], original pictorial yellow cloth, front panel stamped in black and red, spine panel stamped in black, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, yellow endpapers. First edition, first printing with "(1)" on page 949. The first Tros novel, an epic adventure novel in which Tros frustrates Caesar's plan to conquer Britain. "Perhaps his most lasting contribution to the genre is his series of historical fantasies about Tros of Samothrace and his exploits at the time of Caesar." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 136. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 591. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1975-78. In 333. Bleiler (1948), p. 206. Reginald 10524. Grant, p. 210.
THE WINDS OF THE WORLD.
New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, n.d. [c. 1923]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint edition. This is Mundy's second novel, set in India. First published as a three-part serial in Adventure (pulp magazine), July - September, 1915. Coll frontispiece.
TALBOT MUNDY: MESSENGER OF DESTINY.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1983. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Grant on title page. Bio-bibliography with comprehensive illustrated checklist of Mundy's books and magazine appearances, an autobiography, biography by Peter Berresford Ellis, memoir by Mundy's wife, Dawn Mundy Provost, essays by Darrel Crombie and Fritz Leiber, an article on Mundy's writings published in Adventure, and other material.
FULL MOON AND HIGH PRIEST OF CALIFORNIA.
New York: Royal Books, n.d. [1953]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Royal Books Giant Edition #G-20. First publication High Priest of California, the author's first mystery book. First paperback edition for Full Moon which was first published in hardcover in 1935.