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REMARKABLE TRIALS AND INTERESTING MEMOIRS, OF THE MOST NOTED CRIMINALS, WHO HAVE BEEN CONVICTED AT THE ASSIZES, THE KING'S-BENCH BAR, GUILDHALL, &c. FOR HIGH-TREASON, MURDER, CONSPIRACY, RAPE, HIGHWAY, FELONY, BURGLARY, IMPOSITION, AND OTHER ATROCIOUS CRIMES, VILLAINIES, AND MISDEMEANOURS. FROM THE YEAR 1740, TO 1764. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MOST MEMORABLE EXPLOITS, ADVENTURES, CONFESSIONS, AND DYING-BEHAVIOUR. In Two Volumes ...
London: Printed for W. Nicoll, at the Paper-Mill, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1765. 12mo, two volumes, pp. [1-2] [i-iii] iv-x [xi-xiv] [1] 2-336; [i-viii] [1] 2-358, full calf, all panels ruled in gold, edges speckled red. First edition. Highway robbery, piracy on the Thames, murder, rape, a midwife tried for "not doing his duty," and more. Female miscreants are well represented. Many of the cases concern conspiracy, forgery. counterfeiting, and fraud. ESTC T114036.
INDEX TO THE SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES 1926-1950.
Portland, OR: Perri Press, [1952]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Lists the fiction published in all the professional science fiction magazines of this period with the exception of Weird Tales. The index provides author, title, type of story (short story, etc.), the magazine and date of publication. "No serious student of the genre should be without it." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 149.
INDEX TO THE SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES 1926-1950.
Portland, OR: Perri Press, [1952]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Lists the fiction published in all the professional science fiction magazines of this period with the exception of Weird Tales. The index provides author, title, type of story (short story, etc.), the magazine and date of publication. "No serious student of the genre should be without it." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 149.
INDEX TO THE SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES 1926-1950.
Portland, OR: Perri Press, [1952]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Lists the fiction published in all the professional science fiction magazines of this period with the exception of Weird Tales. The index provides author, title, type of story (short story, etc.), the magazine and date of publication. "No serious student of the genre should be without it." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, 149.
MURDER PLUS: TRUE CRIME STORIES FROM THE MASTERS OF DETECTIVE FICTION.
New York: Pharos Books, 1992. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. True crime stories written by some of the great mystery writers: Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett, Lionel White, Day Keene, Brett Halliday, Harlan Ellison and many more.
[THE MOON HOAX] THE CELEBRATED "MOON STORY," ITS ORIGIN AND INCIDENTS; WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, AND AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING, I. AN AUTHENTIC DESCRIPTION OF THE MOON; II. A NEW THEORY OF THE LUNAR SURFACE, IN RELATION TO THAT OF THE EARTH.
New York: Bunnell and Price, 1852. 12mo, pp. [1-3] 4-143 [144: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated black cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind. First hardcover edition, and first printing of this text. This work, prepared by a close acquaintance of Locke, provides a biographical sketch of Locke; anecdotes about the reception of Locke's report; appendices presenting an authentic description of the Moon; and the text of Locke's successful hoax perpetrated in the NEW YORK SUN, in August 1835, which pretended to reveal a discovery that men and animals existed on the Moon. The revelations, supposedly reprinted from the actually defunct EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, were so cleverly wrought that, for a short time, the report was given credence in scientific circles in the United States and Europe. The report was soon denounced as a hoax by the public press and Richard Adams Locke (1800-1871), a reporter for the SUN, was identified as the perpetrator of the "ingenious astronomical hoax." Interest in the lunar discoveries increased the SUN'S circulation to more than nineteen thousand, the largest of any daily of that time. According to William Gowans, who reprinted the story in 1859, Locke's account created such public interest that the owners of the SUN published sixty thousand copies of it in pamphlet form. The pamphlet was published in September 1835 and every copy was sold in less than a month. Nevertheless, the 1835 printings are rare and only a handful of copies survive. See Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-23; and (1981) 1-137. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1348 and 1349. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 728. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel L44. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 142. Locke, Voyages in Space 130. Bleiler (1978), p. 125 (citing earlier editions). Reginald 09129B. Wright (I) 1704a (citing an earlier undated 11-page edition probably published in 1835).
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.
EQMM 350: AN AUTHOR TITLE INDEX TO ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE FALL 1941 THROUGH JANUARY 1973.
White Bear Lake, MN: The Armchair Detective Press, 1974. Wrappers. First edition. Printed wrappers. Reference to story titles and authors.
CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1950s.
[New York]: The Library of America, [1997]. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Collects THE KILLER INSIDE ME by Jim Thompson, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith, PICK-UP by Charles Willeford, DOWN THERE by David Goodis and THE REAL COOL KILLERS by Chester Himes.
TALES OF TERROR, OR THE MYSTERIES OF MAGIC: A SELECTION OF WONDERFUL AND SUPERNATURAL STORIES. TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE, TURKISH, AND GERMAN. Compiled by Henry St. Clair. Two Volumes in One ...
Boston: Printed and Published by Charles Gaylord, 1833. 12mo, two volumes in one: pp. [i-iii] iv [v-vi] [7] 8-178 [179-180: blank]; [1-3] 4-119 [120: blank], inserted frontispiece with uncredited woodcut illustration, uncredited woodcut illustration on each title page, all attributed to David Claypoole Johnston, original pictorial paper covered boards with pinkish-brown linen shelf back. First edition, first printing with both title pages dated 1833. The first American anthology of fantastic fiction. A collection of eighteen Gothic and Romantic stories, most of which are weird or supernatural, including "The Magic Dice" by Thomas de Quincey, "Der Freischutz, or the Magic Balls" by Johann August Apel, "The Boarwolf" by Apel, and "Peter Rugg, the Missing Man" by William Austin, the last appearing for the first time in a book. "... an excellent selection for its day, with much material that is not generally available elsewhere." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1427. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 1-1 (Apel's "Der Freischütz"). Frank, Through the Pale Door: A Guide To and Through the American Gothic 451. Bleiler (1978), p. 173. Reginald 15858. Wright (I) 2266.
THE MIT SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY'S INDEX TO THE S-F MAGAZINES 1951-1965.
[Cambridge, MA: MIT Science Fiction Society, 1966]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Index and checklist of stories published in the S.F. magazines 1951-65. All English language editions with the exception of Australian magazines. It does not include Weird Fiction magazines.
THE MIT SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY'S INDEX TO THE S-F MAGAZINES 1951-1965.
[Cambridge, MA: MIT Science Fiction Society, 1966]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Index and checklist of stories published in the S.F. magazines 1951-65. All English language editions with the exception of Australian magazines. It does not include Weird Fiction magazines.
POPULAR ROMANCES: CONSISTING OF IMAGINARY VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. CONTAINING GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, JOURNEY TO THE WORLD UNDER GROUND, THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER WILKINS, THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, AND THE HISTORY OF AUTOMATHES. To Which is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation, by Henry Weber, Esq.
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Company, for John Ballantyne and Company, Silvester Doig and Andrew Stirling, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and John Murray, London, 1812. Large octavo, pp. [1-4] [i] ii-xv [xvi-xvii] xviii-xliii [xliv][1-3] 4-638, half title leaf present, printed in double columns, original drab boards with later buckram shelf back, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed. First edition. The first English-language anthology of imaginary voyages. Collects Swift's TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, Holberg's A JOURNEY TO THE WORLD UNDERGROUND, Paltock's THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF PETER WILKINS, Defoe's THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, and Kirkby's THE CAPACITY AND EXTENT OF THE HUMAN UNDERSTANDING; EXEMPLIFIED IN THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF AUTOMATHES. Weber's 26-page introduction is the first English-language critical discussion of the imaginary voyage. See Gove, The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction, pp. 64-72. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 9. Reginald 14936. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978).