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AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Co., 1928. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "World of the Giant Ants" by A. Hyatt Verrill. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Co., 1928. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "The Sunken World" by Stanton A. Coblentz, his first published story. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Dunellen, N. J. Teck Publishing Corporation, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Adam Link in the Past" by Eando Binder.
AMAZING STORIES.
Jamaica, NY: Radio-Science Publications, Inc., 1931. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Jack Williamson short story.
THE VAULT OF AGES.
Philadelphia, Toronto: John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Paul Orban, cloth. First edition. The author’s first book. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. "Brisk adventure, well written..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-4. The author's first book.
THIS MORTAL COIL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-245 [246: colophon], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. 2609 copies printed. Collection of seven stories and two novelettes. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-5. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 54. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-10. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Reginald 00597.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 1 of "Final Blackout" by L. Ron Hubbard. Also stories by A.E. van Vogt, Lester Del Rey, Leigh Brackett. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by John Frew, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. L. Sprague De Camp, Manly Wade Wellman, Vic Phillips and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 2 of "Final Blackout" by L. Ron Hubbard. Includes the last novel by Phil[ip] [Francis] Nowlan, "Space Guards." Also stories by Clifford Simak, Jack Williamson and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., May, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Ray Cummings, Nat Schachner, Anthony Gilmore and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
THE LIVING BOMB.
London: W. H. Allen, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Ed Noon novel. Signed inscription by Avallone, an association copy (on the dedication page): "For Leo & Cylnia-who do too, in their superb editorial way. Mike." The Leo is Leo Margulies editor and publisher. Hubin, p. 38.
THE TWITTERING BIRD MYSTERY.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-299 [300: blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. The fourth novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as CLUNK'S CLAIMANT (1937). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
IMAGINATION UNLIMITED.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corp. [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Berkley Books G233. Collects seven of the thirteen stories that appeared in the hardcover edition. Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Julian May, L. Sprague De Camp, Peter Phillips, John Berryman, and Frank Robinson.
THE SKULL OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1965]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-1247. Paperback original. Signed inscription by Bloch to a well known mystery bookseller and publisher on the inside front cover. Collects seven stories, most first published in WEIRD TALES in the mid-1940s. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-33.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...remains the quintessential Bradbury fiction." – Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1769-73. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-51.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
[London]: Heinemann, [1962]. Octavo, original black boards, spine stamped in gold. First edition. "...this is a world as bleak and vicious as Nineteen Eighty-Four-and disturbingly closer, now, than Orwell's to our own." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-41. It was filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971, which interestingly is based on the first U.S. edition of the book which omitted the important last chapter. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #36.
THE QUICK BROWN FOX.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-267 [268: printer's information] [269-272: blank], original orange cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in red, top edge stained orange. First edition. Criminal terrorists become the power in a small town. "...this powerful story of native terrorists who make gangsters look like boy scouts." - jacket copy. Hubin, pp. 119-120.
THE GODS OF MARS ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1918. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xi [xii] 1-348, frontispiece by Frank E. Schoonover, original red cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Total of 10,000 copies printed. There were multiple printings, at least two, last dated 1919. Second book of the Mars series. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-27. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 305. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 108. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02282. Heins GM-1.
THE MONSTER MEN.
New York: Canaveral Press, 1962. Octavo, seven illustrations by Mahlon Blaine, cloth. Later edition. Mad scientist makes synthetic humans. Heine MMe-3.
TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR ...
New York: Canaveral Press, 1962. Octavo, seven illustrations by Mahlon Blaine, cloth. Later edition. Heins TP-4.
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THE PIRATES OF VENUS in ARGOSY [complete in six issues].
New York: The Frank A. Munsey, Company, 1932. Octavo, six issues, cover of the September 17 issue by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Complete six part serial "The Pirates of Venus." The first of the Carson of Venus stories. The last issue includes part 1 of "Burn Witch, Burn!" by A. Merritt. Zeuscher, Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography, pp. 242.
DAWN.
New York: Warner Books, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-85.
HEIGHT OF THE SCREAM.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4348 copies printed. Collects eighteen stories. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-67. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-59. Winter list, p. 268.