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ASSIGNMENT-CARLOTTA CORTEZ.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second printing. Gold Medal k1373. Second printing, first published in 1959, GM 834. C.I.A. agent Sam Durell. Bill Pronzini writing of the Sam Durell novels "Despite all the violence and melodrama...[the] Durell novels are compulsive reading. Aarons was an accomplished writer, with excellent descriptive abilities...and an expert sense of narrative pacing." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 1. Hubin, p. 1.
ASSIGNMENT-HELENE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second printing. Gold Medal k1370. Second printing, first published in 1959, GM 863. C.I.A. agent Sam Durell. Bill Pronzini writing of the Sam Durell novels "Despite all the violence and melodrama...[the] Durell novels are compulsive reading. Aarons was an accomplished writer, with excellent descriptive abilities...and an expert sense of narrative pacing." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 1. Hubin, p. 1.
DRAWN AND QUARTERED.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First revised paperback edition. Pocket 50058. Contents of this edition differ somewhat from the contents of the 1946 paperback edition published by Bantam. Collection of 115 of the author's drawings, of which 111 originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine 1935-1942.
A CHOICE OF ENEMIES.
London: Peter Davies, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The author's first novel. "The book's compassionate outlook and portrayal of a man's dismal treatment by his own intelligence service make it a feeling man's Spy Who Came in From the Cold." - Jay Pedereson (ed.): St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 11. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 467.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by H. W McCauley, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Nelson Bond ("The Return of Lancelot Biggs), John Russell Fearn with four stories, threee using pseudonyms; "Thornton Ayre," "Frank Jones," and "Polton Cross," several other authors have multiple stories. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES.
Dunellen, NJ: Teck Publishing Corporation, 1932. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
VARNEY THE VAMPIRE OR THE FEAST OF BLOOD...with a new introduction by E .F. Bleiler.
New York: Dover Publications Inc., [1972]. Octavo, two volumes, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. paperback edition. Trade paperback format. Facsimile reprint of the famous penny dreadful first published in London in 1847 by E. Lloyd. Excellent introduction by Bleiler in which he provides some basic history of penny dreadfuls and makes a case that the author of the book was James Malcolm Rymer and not Thomas Peckett Prest. "A very long Victorian Gothic novel, unquestionably the most famous of the Lloyd bloods... A striking example of low-level popular fiction for the working classes (and adolescents) but not deserving of any praise." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1629. Baron (ed), Horror Literature 2-87. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-81. Bleiler (1978), p. 172. Reginald 14580.
THE BAMBOO BLOODBATH.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion N2716. Paperback original. Book 3 in the Jason Striker, Master of Martial Arts series.
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Story collection with some supernatural content.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Charles Schneeman, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Part 3 of "The Cosmic Engineers" by Clifford Simak, part 1 of "One Against the Legion" by Jack Williamson. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, cover illustration by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents feature "Sixth Column" by Anson MacDonald (pseudonym for Robert Heinlein), part 1. 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 Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Ray Bradbury's first appearance in Astounding, a short in the Probability Zero feature. Other authors include A.E. van Vogt, Will Stewart (Jack Williamson), Clifford D. Simak, L. Ron Hubbard and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Jack Williamson, Ray Cummings, Arthur J. Burks and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE.
[New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933.]. Octavo, pp. [1] 2-32, original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Advance "teaser" printing the first 32 pages of the novel. Promotional booklet for this famous, popular catastrophe novel, which was a huge commercial success (over half a million copies sold) and was made into a film that helped spark the SF movie boom of the 1950s. The front cover reproduces the four-color illustration printed on the front panel of the dust jacket of the published book.
THE INNKEEPER'S SONG.
[New York]: ROC, [1993]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-27.
HEADS.
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century A Legend Novella, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A novella in the same universe as Queen of Angels.
THE FLOATING DUTCHMAN.
New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, [1951]. Octavo, boards. First U. S. edition. Murder investigated by a secret operative for Scotland Yard. Filmed in 1952. Hubin, p. 67.
THE STARS MY DESTINATION.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Offset from the 1957 Signet edition (revised and slightly expanded from the British hardcover edition, published as TIGER, TIGER, 1956). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-19. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #20.
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles (all first printed in paperback). The Will to Kill "tells of a Korean War veteran searching to the secret of his periodic mental blackouts"; "Firebug was the story of a murderous pyromaniac"; "The Stark Stalker, an evocative novel set in Hollywood during the last days of silent movies." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
THE POLLINATORS OF EDEN.
New York: Weybright and Talley, [1969]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1705-09. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-74.
A MEMORY OF MURDER.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1984.]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 15559. Paperback original. Collects fifteen stories first published in the 1940s in the detective and horror pulps.
THE MISTS OF AVALON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Publisher's promotional materials laid in. The legend of King Arthur from the viewpoint of the women characters. Made into a television mini-series. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-48.
THE RUINS OF ISIS.
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions, Donning, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. SF story concerning a world dominated by a Matriarchal society.
SIXTY SELECTED POEMS.
[Amherst, New York]: The New Establishment Press, 1985. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, softcover issue. A selection of the author's best poems.
SPACE ON MY HANDS.
New York: Bantam Books, [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 1077. Collects nine stories.