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VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Story collection with some of the author's best horror fiction. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #142. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17.
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv-vi] 7-288 + 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 31-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 31. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01137.
THE INHERITOR.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-316 [317-318: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original decorated dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow, top edge stained yellow, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. This novel "features a family curse -- engendering the birth of monsters -- and a protagonist tempted by perversion." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 106. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 146. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 68. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01131.
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER AND OTHER STORIES ...
London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1912]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii [viii] 1-338 [339-344: ads] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Benson's first collection of ghost stories. "By far the best of his four books of ghost stories, this contains seventeen tales, each almost too well-rounded to fault." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 30. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 32. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 139. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature, p. 81. Penzoldt, The Supernatural in Fiction, p. 257. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-15. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01134.
THE TERROR BY NIGHT: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME ONE. Edited by Jack Adrian
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. First volume in a projected five volume series of Benson's supernatural tales. The stories from this volume date from 1899-1911.
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE.
London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv-vi] 7-288 + 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. Laid into this copy is information on a television film production of Mrs. Amworth. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 31-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 31. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01137.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
ALIEN MINDS.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.
THE PLANET MAPPERS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Young adult sf adventure novel.
THE WAR OF THE WENUSES. Translated from the Artesian of H. G. Pozzuoli ...
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith ... London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, n.d., [1898]. Small octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-140 [141-144: ads], original pictorial white wrappers printed in red, yellow and black. First edition. A fine parody of H. G. Wells's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. Earth is invaded by beautiful Venusian women. "A 'Punch-style' parody ... in which the natives of Venus, young ladies, invade earth (in giant crinolines) in a quest for sartorial improvements, devastating all males with the dreaded 'mash' glance." - Locke, Voyages in Space 88. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 915. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 356. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 24. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749, p. 230. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 95. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 457. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 115. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 73. Bleiler (1978), p. 85. Reginald 06255. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks and Paperbacks, 1849-1905 VIII, p. 244.
AT THE VILLA ROSE.
New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1910. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. The first Hanaud mystery. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
THE HOUSE IN LORDSHIP LANE.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Inspector Hanaud novel.
THE PRISONER IN THE OPAL.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Formerly the Adrian Goldstone copy with his bookplate to front paste down. The third Hanaud novel. Mystery involving Devil worship.
THE PRISONER IN THE OPAL.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers, n.d., [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-344 [345-352: ads], original light blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The third Hanaud novel. Murder mystery with occult secret society background. Inspector Hanaud investigates a murder involving a cult of Devil worshipers who celebrate Black Mass in the Cave of the Mummies. Bleiler (1948), p. 194. Not in Reginald. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 1565. Hubin (1994), p. 559.
TROUBLE ON TITAN ...
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1954]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Rebellious miners on Saturn's moon Titan, whose ancestors were exiled there centuries before and forced to mine the metal now responsible for Earth's prosperity, plan to ruin the Earth and flee the Solar System. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961.
THE DUMB GODS SPEAK
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1937. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-ix [x] [1-3] 4-304 [305-309: list of Oppenheim's books] [310: blank], jacket art by Bip Pares, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in blueish green. First edition. Spy thriller with science fiction elements. The Philippines have been granted independence by the United States and Japan attempts to invade, a super science device disables the entire Japanese fleet. This is where the story begins. The story includes advanced television devices and a sort of EMP weaponry. An international spy organization wishes to turn Russia and China into constitutional monarchies in the hope of avoiding a world war. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 72. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 241. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 170. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11011.
ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-307 [308-312: ads] [313-314: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, yellow end papers, top edge stained black. First U. S. edition.
THE GREAT PRINCE SHAN.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1922. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-303 [304: blank] [305: ads] [306-308: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. A tale of political intrigue set in the near future (1934). England has relaxed militarily, seemingly secure with membership in the League of Nations. Germany, Russia, Japan and China plot against them. China has secretly built a fleet of 1000 advanced airships which can be used to conquer any country in the world. The world is on the brink of a new world war and China's brilliant leader, Prince Shan, uses his power and diplomacy to establish a new world order. Filmed in 1924 with Sessue Hayakawa. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1725. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11016. Hubin (1994), p. 616.
MR. LAXWORTHY'S ADVENTURES.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-305 [306], original light brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Collects twelve stories. Hubin, pp. 615-618. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 79.
MR. MIRAKEL.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-279 [280-282: blank], original light blue cloth, front and spine stamped in dark blue, fore edge rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. A second world war lasts nine years and ends with violent global natural catastrophe that wreaks destruction of many parts the Earth. Before this, a mysterious Mr. Mirakel, an extremely wealthy man, has fled to a remote land with a small group of chosen people, the "land of Mirakel," akin to a Shangri-la. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1726. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 52. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 237. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11022.Hubin (1994), p. 618.
THE STRANGER'S GATE.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-3] 4-328 [329-333: ads] [334-336: blank], original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. A setting in the Balkans concerning an important bauxite mining operation of which the Germans are interested in. Hubin (1994), p. 618.
THE WRATH TO COME.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-355 [356: blank] [357: ads] [358-360: blank], original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Germany, Russian and Japan ally together and plot against the United States in 1950. In this day the United States, while the world's richest country, is mostly is a state of disarmament. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1726. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 52. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 237. Bleiler (1978), p. 151. Reginald 11022.Hubin (1994), p. 618.
SKYLARK DUQUESNE.
[New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1975]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Fourth and final book of the Skylark series. First published as a paperback original in 1966. The Garland edition is offset from a January 1974 eighth printing of the Pyramid paperback edition. 1966 Hugo nominee. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-114.
BEST OF E. E. DOC SMITH.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1975, i.e. January 1976]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Warmly inscribed and signed to Fantasy Press publisher Lloyd [Arthur Eshbach] on the front free end paper by Smith's daughter Verna. Eight stories and an article, "The Epic of Space," by Smith, plus preface by Philip Harbottle, foreword by Walter Gillings, and a checklist of Smith's writings.