London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates strangled victims near cathedrals built in the 18th century which are associated with ritual murders. "Ackroyd's vivid recreation of historical London and its squalor contributes to the story's eerie atmosphere." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-1. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-1.  Item #2502

London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first sf novel. Issued later with textual differences in the U.S. as STARSHIP (1959). "... a brilliant treatment of the generation starship and also the theme of conceptual breakthrough in a kind of spacegoing ruined-Earth society; it has become a classic of the field and in 2008 was awarded a retrospective British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel of 1958." - John Clute / David Pringle, SFE (online). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-4. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #25. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 160.  Item #16871

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. McCauley, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part three of "The Return of Tharne" by Howard Browne.  Item #17907

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. "...this is Anderson at his tragic-heroic best, blending meticulous astrophysics with brooding romanticism." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-6. Nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959.  Item #11888

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine. Conclusion of "One Against the Legion" by Jack Williamson.  Item #18398

New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1936. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 3 of "The Cometeers" by Jack Williamson. Stories by Don A. Stuart, Nat Schachner and others.  Item #18367

Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [11-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-252 [253-254: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. The UK edition was published in 1946 by Macdonald. Hubin (1994), p. 42.  Item #12780

London: Newnes, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-247 [248], original yellow cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. The author's third book and second SF novel. An early interplanetary story by this noted British SF writer best known for fine catastrophe novels published under his John Wyndham pseudonym. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 69. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 33. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Reginald 15715.  Item #14623

Baltimore: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Signed by Bloch. Collects "A Good Knight's Work," "The Eager Dragon," "Nursemaid to Nightmares" and "Black Barter." Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-39.  Item #6488

New York: William Morrow & Co. 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Matt Scudder novel.  Item #6888

[Glendale, California: Roy A. Squires, March, 1976.]. Octavo, printed wrappers with unprinted paper overlay. First edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies of which this is one of the first 150 copies with recto of final leaf imprinted "Subscriber's Copy" and bearing Bradbury's signature.  Item #14685

New York: Delacorte Press, 1993. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.  Item #4027

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Compnay, 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Novelet by Bruno Fischer, "Mind Your Own Murder," stories by Howard Browne (Wilbur Peddie), Brett Halliday (Mike Shayne) and others.  Item #19338