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THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2001.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Anthology of classic authors which all first appeared in British fiction magazines from the period of the early 1920s to 1939. Only one has appeared in book form. Item #11434
AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE: EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS COLONEL CLAY.
London: Grant Richards, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-317 [318: blank] [319-320: ads], illustrations by Gordon Browne, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. "The first great rogue of mystery fiction," Colonel Clay, "preceded ... Raffles by two years ..." - Queen's Quorum 21. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 4. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 11. Item #13539
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Arnold Kohn, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Item #17904
AMAZING STORIES.
Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Piracy Preferred" by John W. Campbell, Jr. Item #20347
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1927. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Item #20333
AMAZING STORIES.
Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1931. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 3 of "Spacehounds of IPC" by E.E. Smith. Item #20346
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include "Sixth Column" by Anson MacDonald (pseudonym for Robert Heinlein), part 2 and "--And He Built A Crooked House" by Robert Heinlein. Also includes Theodore Stugeon, L. Sprague De Camp, Nelson Bond and others. Item #21858
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 3 of "Final Blackout" by L. Ron Hubbard. Also includes "The Roads Must Roll" by Robert A. Heinlein. Item #21902
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 2 of "One Against the Legion" by Jack Williamson. Item #21889
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part 1 of "Second Stage Lensman" by E.E. Smith. Item #20991
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by H.W. Wesso. Features stories by David R. Sparks, Harl Vincent and others. Item #10894
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Item #18424
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Item #18423
RAFT.
[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Item #11761
THE WEB: GULLIVERZONE.
[London]. Orion Children's Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, [1997]. Small octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Young adult SF, part of a series written by multiple authors. Item #15147
THE FOLK OF THE AIR.
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 4A-23. Item #8701
THE HOUSE OF FULFILMENT.
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1927. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. See Fantasy Literature 3-22. Item #7902
THE TEMPLE OF THE TEN.
[West Kingston, Rhode Island]: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Weird adventure story first published in the pulp magazine Adventure. Item #6594
TIMESCAPE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1980]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Nebula Award winner, 1980. John W. Campbell Memorial Award, 1981. Scientists in the future try to send a warning message to scientists of the past. "Unusual for the realism of its depiction of scientists at work; admirably serious in handling the implications of its theme." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-46. Item #9165
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THE SECRET PEOPLE by John Beynon [pseudonym].
London: George Newnes, Limited, n.d., [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-256, original blue vertically ribbed cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first book, first published in nine serialized parts in THE PASSING SHOW in 1935 under the title of "Sub-Sahara." One of the few lost race novels set in the future. In 1964 a decadent pigmy race, originally of Egyptian descent, is discovered in caverns under the Sahara. Harris is better known under his pseudonym John Wyndham. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 67. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 33. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Reginald 15716. Item #14622
BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel, W. T. Ballard, George Harmon Coxe, and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68. Item #22075
BLACK MASK.
Chicago: Fictioneers, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael DeSoto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the Cornell Woolrich story, "C-Jag." Also part of a Cellini Smith novel by Robert Reeves. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68. Item #22086
BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarksi, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Paul Cain, Dwight Babcock, Theodore Tinsley and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68. Item #22195
THE DOLL AND ONE OTHER.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects two stories, The Doll and The Trod. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 199. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, pp. 21-2. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-29. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01380. Ashley A.47.1. Item #17320
DUDLEY AND GILDEROY: A NONSENSE.
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A fantasy. Item #3804