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HUMOUR & FANTASY.
London: John Murray, [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
ARIEL: A FANTASY MAGAZINE.
Leawood, Kansas: The Morning Star Press, 1977. Large octavo, single issue, stiff pictorial wrappers. First edition. The second of four issues. Profusely illustrated. Includes an the second part of an interview with Frank Frazetta (part one in the first issue), a color section featuring Richard Corben's "Den," "Eggsucker" by Harlan Ellison, a prequel story to "A Boy and His Dog," art by Bruce Jones, Jeff Jones, a Ray Bradbury story "The Burning Man," an essay by Ursula K. LeGuin "Science Fiction Chauvanism," and more. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 109-10.
DUANE AND THE ART MURDERS.
London: Cassell, 1939. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Hubin, p. 67.
CHOICE CUTS.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Novel by the scriptwriters of Vertigo and Diabolique. "A very sophisticated, black funny novel." - Barron (ed.) Horror Literature 4-50. Basis for the film "Body Parts."
UNDERCOVER: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF AMERICAN MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS.
New York: Penguin Books, 1982. Octavo, decorated wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. A short history of the American paperback, includes a number of cover reproductions including several color sections.
EAST OF MANSION HOUSE.
London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1928]. Octavo, cloth. First U.K. edition. A collection of twelve stories.
EAST OF MANSION HOUSE.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] [7-8] 9-270 [271-272: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Published later in Britain in 1928 by Cassell and Company. Burke's third collection of Limehouse stories. A collection of twelve horror and crime stories including two supernatural tales, "White Wings" and "The Tablets of the House of Li." This edition includes "Black Country," a grotesque auto-erotic suicide tale,"replaced with "Uncle Reuben" in the British edition published by Cassell in 1928. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 46. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 120. Bleiler (1948), p. 66. Hubin (1994), p. 119.
THE GOLDEN GONG AND OTHER NIGHT-PIECES. Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collects twenty tales by Burke, from NIGHT PIECES and other collections, with a long, interesting introduction by Salmonson, and a profile by his publisher "Grant Richards on Thomas Burke." Reproduces (in black and white) the vivid dust jackets of many of his, now scarce, first editions. Burke first gained fame for his stories of London's Chinatown district, known as Limehouse.
MORE LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1921]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 11-282 [283-286: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], original pictorial orange cloth, front panel stamped in red and black, spine panel stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as WHISPERING WINDOWS: TALES OF THE WATERSIDE (1921). Burke's second collection of Limehouse stories, sequel to LIMEHOUSE NIGHTS (1916). Includes one supernatural tale, "The Scarlet Shoes." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 46. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 120. Bleiler (1948), p. 66. Hubin (1994), p. 119. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 15.
NIGHT-PIECES: EIGHTEEN TALES ...
London: Constable & Co Limited, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-311 [312], original red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. Collection of eighteen weird and criminous stories set in shadowy London. Burke's core collection of horror stories, distinctive for their original treatments of familiar themes. Best include doppelganger story "Johnson Looked Back" and zombie story "The Hollow Man." "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 309. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 15. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-41. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-50. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 121. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02238. Hubin (1994), p. 119. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 15.
THE PLEASANTRIES OF OLD QUONG.
London: Constable & Co, Ltd., [1931]. Octavo, orange cloth, spine stamped in blue. First edition. "A series of horror, crime and supernatural tales mostly set in London's Chinatown..." - Wilson, Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1950, p. 120. An important Burke collection which contains a story of which Ellery Queen in Queen's Quorum (p. 66) writes "the author's detective masterpiece, The Hands of Mr. Ottermole. This short story, the last word in the evocation of atmosphere and terror on the printed page...". (This collection was published in the U.S. as A Tea Shop in Limehouse).
VOICES FOR THE FUTURE: ESSAYS ON MAJOR SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS... VOLUME I.
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, [1976]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Collects twelve critical essays on Jack Williamson, Olaf Stapledon, Clifford Simak, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury (2), Arthur C. Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut and the collaborations of Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore.
THE ORCHIDS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's third book and first hardcover.
SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN.
New York: Walker, 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first mystery.
AS GOOD AS DEAD.
New York: Jefferson House, 1946. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's second book. A Singer Batts novel. Somewhat uncommon.
HUE AND CRY.
New York: Jefferson House, 1944. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first mystery novel, introducing Singer Batts.
THE LOVE-DEATH THING.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Mac private eye novel. Hard boiled. "Dewey's novels are interesting and successful, and Mac is a memorable private eye..." - Pederson: St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers (4th ed.), pp. 300-01.
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London: MacGibbon & Kee, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A brilliant work, utterly convincing in its portraits of people trying to get by in a world they are powerless to influence or control" - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-188. "Six interweaving tales set in twenty-first century New York, a scene of high unemployment and heartless 'welfareism.' The book deals convincingly (and unusually) with the marginalized members of a future society. The result is moving and at times harrowing: a masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 372, "A brilliant work, utterly convincing in its portraits of people trying to get by in a world they are powerless to influence or control. The most eloquent display of the pessimism that became newly acceptable in New Wave SF." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-346. 1974 Nebula nominee. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #66. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 338. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2774-77.
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London: MacGibbon & Kee, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Disch to writer Mike Dickenson on the front free end paper while at the Ted Hughes writing center in Yorkshire in 1978 ."Six interweaving tales set in twenty-first century New York, a scene of high unemployment and heartless 'welfareism.' The book deals convincingly (and unusually) with the marginalized members of a future society. The result is moving and at times harrowing: a masterpiece." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 372, "A brilliant work, utterly convincing in its portraits of people trying to get by in a world they are powerless to influence or control. The most eloquent display of the pessimism that became newly acceptable in New Wave SF." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-346. 1974 Nebula nominee. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #66. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 338. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2774-77.
THE BUSINESSMAN: A TALE OF TERROR.
New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Sydney: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1984]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "First of an informal trilogy of satirical horror novels, all set in Minneapolis. In THE BUSINESSMAN, middle-aged middle-management drone Bob Glandier is haunted by absurd manifestations of the ghost of his murdered wife, her mother, and the poet John Berryman, all of who have met in the afterlife ... a slapstick spoof of modern horror fiction and the trend toward using the most banal aspects of ordinary life as springboards for supernatural experience." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-116. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-88. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-98. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 98. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 88.
CAMP CONCENTRATION.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. In a near future American authoritarian dystopia "the hero, a poet, is inducted into a secret military experiment to maximize soldiers' intelligence. Infected with a syphilis-type bug he becomes a genius as his body begins to fall apart. There is a clever solution to his predicament. Erudite and witty, this is a very impressive modern recension of the Faust legend." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second series, p. 57. "A key work of avant-garde SF ..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-343. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 162. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 56. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 309. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 277-82.
ECHO ROUND HIS BONES.
New York: Berkley Publishing, 1967. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
ECHO ROUND HIS BONES.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Science fiction novel involving matter transmission and multiple realities.
ECHO ROUND HIS BONES.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Disch on the title page. "A Mars-bound matter transmitter creates doppelgangers of everyone who passes through it -- though at first its users don't realize this. An amusing SF 'ghost' story, with some lovely moments. Lightweight, early Disch, but impeccably written." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 115.