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BEST SF STORIES OF C. M. KORNBLUTH. With an Introduction by Edmund Crispin.
London: Faber and Faber, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories including "The Marching Morons," "The Little Black Bag," "The Silly Season," "Gomez," and "With These Hands."
THE EXPLORERS: SHORT STORIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Jack Faragasso, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 86. Paperback original. Kornbluth's first collection of short fiction. Collects nine stories, including "Gomez," "The Mindworm" and "With These Hands."
A MILE BEYOND THE MOON.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects fifteen stories including "The Little Black Bag," "Shark Ship," and "Two Dooms." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-349. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 969.
THE MINDWORM.
London: Michael Joseph, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of twelve stories, includes eight of the nine stories from the paperback publication THE EXPLORERS (Ballantine, 1954) and adds an additional four . "Where Kornbluth really excelled was in his shorter work..." "It is often madly comic; and as often sharp and deadly." Pederson: St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (Fourth Edition), pp. 529-31.
THE SYNDIC.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Future America is ruled partly by a Mafia-like mob and partly by a more benign organization referred to as "the fat, sloppy, happy Syndic." An enjoyable adventure story with satirical barbs and an underlying darkness of tone." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 360. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-612. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2211-14.
PHYSICIANS' FARE.
New York: Longman, Green & Co., London: Edward Arnold & Co., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9 [10-12] 13-301 [302] [303-304: blank], original orange cloth, spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Collects twenty-one stories, some crime and several science fantasy, most with a medical flavor, "humorous, pathetic, macabre -- as seen from the doctor's point of view, slices of life, flights of imagination, a murder or two, a mystery or two ... all have the sting in the tail." - publisher's blurb. Bleiler (1978), p. 120. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 135. Hubin, p. 489.
PHYSICIANS' FARE.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9 [10-12] 13-301 [302] [303-304: blank], original gray cloth, spine stamped in red. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories, some crime and several science fantasy, most with a medical flavor, "humorous, pathetic, macabre -- as seen from the doctor's point of view, slices of life, flights of imagination, a murder or two, a mystery or two ... all have the sting in the tail." - publisher's blurb. Bleiler (1978), p. 120. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 135. Hubin, p. 489.
OUT OF THE BLUE.
New York: George H. Doran Company, [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-283 [284-288: blank], original tan cloth front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Mixed story collection with some involving crime. Hubin, pp. 539-540. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 71.
DEAD RECKONING.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fourth Richard Delancey sea novel.
DEVIL TO PAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The first Richard Delancey novel. Set in the time of King George III.
THE FIRESHIP.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Continues the adventures of Richard Delancey in the Royal Navy's war against the French. The second book in the series.
THE FIRESHIP.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Richard Delancey novel. The Royal Navy war against the Napoleanic French.
SO NEAR SO FAR.
[London]: John Murray, [1981]. Octavo, jacket art by Val Biro, boards. First edition. The fifth Richard Delancey sea novel.
TOUCH AND GO.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The third Richard Delancey sea novel.
SEARCH THE SKY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Pohl to Forrest J. Ackerman on front free end paper: "For 4e / With gratitude for / a fine time / Frederik Pohl."
THE SPACE MERCHANTS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, boards. First edition. "The ad-men run this overpopulated America of the future, a crassly materialist society which is challenged only by a weak underground movement of conservationists. Brilliantly detailed satire and exciting narrative: a joy, despite its grim theme." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 337. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-864. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #12. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2127-31.