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THE LAST MUTATION.
London: Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Science Fiction Monthly No. 11. A mutant of the future upon his release from guarded colony attempts to replace human civilization with mutants. "Campbell's controversial tour de force, and a much sought after collector's item." - Harbottle and Holland. Harbottle and Holland A56.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. 4040 copies printed. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1646. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-212.
GALLIMAUFRY.
London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-320, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in yellow. First edition. The author's first book.
GHOST STORIES.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-288 [289-296: ads], original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories, four of which appear here for the first time in a book. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1644. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-213. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14764.
HEARKEN TO THE EVIDENCE.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1933. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's first mystery novel.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES.
London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-313 [314: blank] [315-316: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, probable first binding. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 177. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 445-46. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14769.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES.
London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-313 [314: blank] [315-316: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, probable first binding. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 177. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 445-46. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14769.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, jacket art by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition is expanded, adding four stories, "A Fishing Story," "Used Car," "Death of A Poacher" and "Knock! Knock! Who's There?," and introduction, "Why I Write Ghost Stories," not included in the 1940 Jenkins edition. "Wakefield was a consistently competent writer who took up where M. R. James left off in extending the core of the British tradition through the period between the wars." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1646.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprint of the 1931 Philip Allan edition with "introduction" by Barbara Roden and afterword "H. R. Wakefield: Bibliographical Bafflements, " by Jack Adrian. Collects thirteen stories; "...a more varied collection whose best weird story is the haunted house story 'The Frontier Guards. '"-Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1643. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2275. Bleiler (1978), p. 201. Reginald 14766. Hubin, p. 419.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1961. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2070 copies printed. Collection of fourteen ghost stories. Barron (ed): Horror Literature 4-311. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1647.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects Wakefield's introduction and the fourteen stories published in the 1961 Arkham House edition, here printed with textual changes made by Wakefield in the margins of a copy of the 1961 edition presented to his sister Mary. Adds four previously uncollected stories first published in original anthologies edited by August Derleth between 1962 and 1971 and "introduction" by Barbara Roden.
STRAYERS FROM SHEOL. Introduction by Barbara Roden.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects Wakefield's introduction and the fourteen stories published in the 1961 Arkham House edition, here printed with textual changes made by Wakefield in the margins of a copy of the 1961 edition presented to his sister Mary. Adds four previously uncollected stories first published in original anthologies edited by August Derleth between 1962 and 1971 and an "introduction" by Barbara Roden.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Introductionby Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections."– Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641.
THEY RETURN AT EVENING: A BOOK OF GHOST STORIES. Introductionby Barbara Roden.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1995. Octavo, cloth. New edition. Limited to 308 copies of which this is one of 300 numbered clothbound copies. A reprint of the 1928 edition with new introduction by Barbara Roden. Collects ten stories. "The first and best of the author's several collections."– Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-200. "Excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1641.
THE COLLECTOR'S BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION ... FROM RARE, ORIGINAL, ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINES ... Selected by Alan K. Russell.
[Secaucus, New Jersey]: Castle Books, [1978]. Large octavo, numerous illustrations, boards. First edition. A 514-page anthology reprinting directly from the pages of the popular magazines in which they first appeared, three novel serials (The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and When the Sleeper Wakes) and sixteen stories (including the five "Stories of the Stone Age"). Many of the illustrations have not been reprinted elsewhere and the texts of The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon differ from the book versions. Essential to Wells scholars. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2354. Reginald 36695.
THE DREAM.
[London]: Published for Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. by The London Book Co. Ltd., n.d., [1930s]. Small octavo, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. Later edition. Part of "The Novel Library" series which was another popular inexpensive reprint series. A major Wells fantasy.
THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON ...
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-342 [343-344: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], twelve inserted plates with illustrations by Claude Shepperson, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, black coated endpapers. First edition. The U.S. Bowen-Merrill edition preceded the British edition by approximately one month. The two editions have minor textual differences. "...a gripping adventure story as well as a historic milestone in modern science fiction." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 782-86. "The last and most complex [of Wells's early scientific romances] is THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON. The two first men, Bedford and Cavor are well-contrasted, the civilization of the Selenites is excellent both as horror and satire; and the novel abounds with wonderful passages of unforced description at which Wells is unrivaled... This lovely book also contains much of Wells's delightful humor; it has kept the joints of his discourse oiled to this day. After THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, Wells's science fiction novels are never quite the same." - Bleiler (ed), Science Fiction Writers, p. 28. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-166; (1981) 1-175; (1987) 1-98; (1995) 1-98; and (2004) II-1225. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2335. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 795. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 206. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 226. Locke, Voyages in Space 208. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1177. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 123-24. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15026. Currey, p. 518 (binding A). Hammond B7. Wells 18. Wells Society 18.
THE INVISIBLE MAN: A GROTESQUE ROMANCE ...
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-245 [246: printer's imprint] [247-248: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf], title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. "Amoral scientist discovers invisibility, but even this fails in the face of invincible obtuseness and cruelty of petty bourgeois England. Brilliant idea, memorable scenes, and vigorous chase-plot in an ambiguous (and scientifically impossible) tale." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 70. Adapted into several films and television shows. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-163. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2330. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 797. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 226. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1057-61. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15039. Currey, p. 520. Hammond B4. Wells 11. Wells Society 11.
THE INVISIBLE MAN: A GROTESQUE ROMANCE ...
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-245 [246: printer's imprint] [247-248: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf], title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. "Amoral scientist discovers invisibility, but even this fails in the face of invincible obtuseness and cruelty of petty bourgeois England. Brilliant idea, memorable scenes, and vigorous chase-plot in an ambiguous (and scientifically impossible) tale." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 70. Filmed in 1933 by Universal Pictures starring Claude Rains, directed by James Whale. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-163 and (2004) II-1227. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2330. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 797. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 226. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1057-61. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15039. Currey, p. 520. Hammond B4. Wells 11. Wells Society 11.
THE INVISIBLE MAN: A GROTESQUE ROMANCE ...
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-245 [246: printer's imprint] [247-248: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf], title page printed in orange and black, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. "Amoral scientist discovers invisibility, but even this fails in the face of invincible obtuseness and cruelty of petty bourgeois England. Brilliant idea, memorable scenes, and vigorous chase-plot in an ambiguous (and scientifically impossible) tale." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 70. Filmed in 1933 by Universal Pictures starring Claude Rains, directed by James Whale. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-163 and (2004) II-1227. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2330. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 797. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 226. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1057-61. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 205. Reginald 15039. Currey, p. 520. Hammond B4. Wells 11. Wells Society 11.