Featured Items
A. MERRITT'S FANTASY MAGAZINE.
Kokomo, IN: Recreational Reading, Inc., an affiliate of Popular Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first issue which reprints 'Creep, Shadow!" by Merritt.
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.
AMAZING STORIES.
Dunellen, NJ: Teck Publishing Corporation, 1932. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
CRIMES, CREEPS AND THRILLS: FORTY-FIVE NEW STORIES OF DETECTION, HORROR AND ADVENTURE BY EMINENT MODERN AUTHORS ...
London: E. H. Samuel, n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xv [xvi] 1-560, 30 full-page unattributed black and white illustrations in the text, original light blue cloth, front cover ruled in blind, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Important 560-page partially original anthology collecting forty-five adventure, crime and supernatural stories by E. H. Visiak, Richard Middleton, M. P. Shiel, H. H. Ewers, Frederick Carter, Edgar Jepson, Nugent Barker, and others. Contents include the only appearance in print of Visiak's "The Shadow," a flawed novel "reworking on a symbolic level of concepts in Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship" [Bleiler (1983)]. "Over and above their general high quality ... [Gawsworth's] large anthologies of horror and supernatural Fiction –- ranging from quality ghost stories to mediocre contes cruels –- are notable for the amount of original material they contain, much of this coming from authors of considerable interest, including Oswell Blakeston, Thomas Burke, Frederick Carter, Louis Golding, Edgar Jepson, Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, Eimar O'Duffy, M. P. Shiel and E. H. Visiak –- as well as Gawsworth himself, none of whose short stories have been collected separately. His early stories, like ABOVE THE RIVER (1931) and 'Scylla and Charybdis' (1934) are wistful nature fantasies in the style of Algernon Blackwood, but his later 'collaborations' with Shiel, Visiak and particularly Jepson ('The Shifting Growth' 1936, included in this collection) are more sinister and portentous, shadowing death." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 392. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 452. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 9. Bleiler (1978), p. 80.
FOUNDATION'S EDGE.
[Binghamton]: Whispers Press, 1982. Octavo, leather-backed linen. Limited edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by Asimov and publisher Stuart Schiff, this is copy #799). "A belated sequel to the 'Foundation Trilogy,' marking Asimov's return to his distinctive brand of cerebral space opera after more than twenty years. In this yarn (and the related novels THE ROBOTS OF DAWN, ROBOTS AND EMPIRE, FOUNDATION AND EARTH and PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION) Asimov explains the galactic history of THE STARS LIKE DUST and the "Foundation" series as a plot by the robots (from the otherwise unconnected 'Robot' stories) to ensure the survival and happiness of the human race, and hints that the history-altering time travelers of THE END OF ETERNITY set up the whole thing." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 143. Winner of the 1983 Hugo award. 1982 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-47. Sargent, British and American Literature, 1516-1985, p. 410.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the first published SF story by Theodore Sturgeon, "Ether Breather." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Large octavo, single issue cover painting by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Anthony Boucher, Lewis Padgett, Fredric Brown, Lester Del Rey ("Nerves"), and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
THE CHINESE MASK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2715. Paperback original. The second Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in China. Hubin, p. 45.
THE TORCH.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. First binding of red cloth with spine panel lettered in gold. Post-catastrophe novel, first published as a serial in ARGOSY WEEKLY, 24 January-21 February 1920. "A ruined Earth tale, set in a devastated New York a thousand years after a comet has destroyed civilization; almost betrayed by the passions of love, but enabled in the end by the inventions of a dwarf scientist, the underclass topples the tyrants, and a new torch shines in the grasp of the Statue of Liberty." - John Clute, SFE (online).
THE WAY OF STARS: A ROMANCE OF REINCARNATION.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "Egyptological romance, black magic, the Communist peril, future war and Asiatic mysticism all worked in together."- Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, #116.
ARTIFACT.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition.
FIREBUG.
Evanston, IL: Regency Books, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Regency Books RB#101. Paperback original. Signed by both Bloch and Ellision with a terrific inscription above the title by Robert Bloch-"Harlan wrote the / good part-the / first 1200 words! / Robert Bloch" signed again by Bloch under the title and signed by Ellison. A unique copy.
DRAGONS AND NIGHTMARES: FOUR SHORT NOVELS.
Baltimore: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Collects "A Good Knight's Work," "The Eager Dragon," "Nursemaid to Nightmares" and "Black Barter." Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-39.
THE WHALE'S FOOTPRINTS.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The fifth Doc Adams mystery.
OCTOBER.
Los Angeles: [Shottlebop Press], 1983. Octavo, pp. [1-12] (not paginated), pictorial wrappers. First edition. Inscribed on the front cover by Bradbury, dated 1984. First printing of a long, early Bradbury poem completed in 1940. The poem was originally recorded in 1940, Daugherty rescued the recording from the Ackerman Archives and transcribed it for this publication. Privately printed by Walt Daugherty and Mary Ellen Rabogliatti. Reportedly limited to 150 copies.
THE PLANET SAVERS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1962 Ace edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. This is the first published Darkover novel which first appeared in Amazing Stories (1958). "The Darkover series has a science-fictional rationale, but much of it has a fantasy feel." Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92.
THE UPLIFT WAR.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 475 numbered copies signed by Brin. Sequel to STARTIDE RISING (1983). Winner of the 1988 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-163.
BLACK MEDICINE.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, Publishers, 1966. Octavo, jacket by Lee Brown Coye, cloth. First edition. 1952 copies printed. Story collection, most of which first appeared in Weird Tales. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-42. Bleiler:The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #312.
TARZAN OF THE APES.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1927-30]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-392, inserted illustrated frontispiece, original red cloth front front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. First of the Tarzan series. Heins TA-6. Luke, Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints TA-2b. Jacket variant 3b.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Features part four of the serial "The Pirates of Venus" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Heins, p. 146.
PAST ALL DISHONOR.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Adventure and suspense novel set in the American west of the silver boom.
THE FOLK OF THE FRINGE.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 475 numbered copies signed by Card. Five stories about life on the fringe in America's future, when society has collapsed under the weight of war. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
BLACK WOLF.
[London]: Headline, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Promotional info laid in. Psychological horror novel.
THE LADY IN THE LAKE.
New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Armed Services #838. Philip Marlowe. Issued for military servicemen. Bruccoli: Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibliography, A4.3.
PLAYBACK.
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The last Philip Marlowe novel, precedes the U.S. edition.