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A TOUCH OF CHILL: TALES FOR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
New York: Delacorte Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. This copy inscribed to a mystery book publisher and book seller on the title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Collection of fifteen stories. The contents of this book differ from the U.K. title of the same name, (nearly half the stories differ). Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-11. Item #12824
THE SHAPE OF FURTHER THINGS: SPECULATIONS ON CHANGE.
London: Faber & Faber, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. SF. Autobiography spanning a month in the life of a speculative writer. Item #8808
SPACE, TIME AND NATHANIEL.
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF book, a collection of fourteen short stories. Includes "The Shubshub Race," a satire set partly on Upotia, a destination planet for wealthy individuals. "Fourteen lyrical stories, comprising its author's first collection. Notable entries are 'Outside' (1955), 'Psyclops' (1956) and 'The Failed Men' (1957)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 338. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 264. Item #15392
SHADOW OF A DOUBT.
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Spy novel in which a retired director of MI 6 has to defend himself in court. Item #19506
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Fuqua, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Story by Manly Wade Wellman. Item #17922
THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN.
Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1973. Octavo, boards. First edition. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. First printing with no code on page 181. Jacket painting by Richard Corben. Item #13592
OPERATION CHAOS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Parallel world, the main character is a werewolf. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 21. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1160-63. Item #14749
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by John Frew, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine. L. Sprague De Camp, Manly Wade Wellman, Vic Phillips and others. Item #21317
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting of Jupiter. Fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, Clifford Simak, Nelson Bond and others. Item #18377
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features the short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, the basis for the classic film "Day The Earth Stood Still." Also includes part 2 of "Slan" by A.E. Van Vogt. Item #22017
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Item #18363
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., July, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 4 of The Legion of Space by Jack Williamson. Item #16052
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. Item #16038
DEAD GAME.
New York: Permabooks, [1955]. Small octavo, cover by James Meese, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Perma Books #m-3012. Item #11988
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. Item #12779
FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74. Item #16909
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. Item #10970
THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF JAMES SHERVINTON AND OTHER STORIES ...
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-312, 24 inserted plates with illustrations by F. R. Fitz Gerald, original decorated red cloth, front stamped in gold and blind, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Novelette of adventure and eight short stories with South Seas locales. The title story, set on Tarawa, concerns the protagonist's relationship with a local witch woman; and is of marginal relevance to the supernatural genre. Most of the illustrations depict ships at sea. Bleiler (1948), p. 45. Tuck (1974), p. 35. Hubin (1994), p. 59. Miller (1940), p. 655. Miller and Macartney (1956), p. 57. Item #20113
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE: TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-ii] iii [iv] v-vi 1-362 [363-366: ads] [367-368: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original decorated maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Enlarged edition. First printing of the enlarged edition of TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS (1891), the first and best of two collections of Bierce's short fiction published during his lifetime. The enlarged edition adds three stories including the classic, "The Damned Thing," a chilling narrative of an encounter with a malignant being from another dimension. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-13. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 162. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 073. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 33-4. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1436-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler (1978), p. 23. Wright (III) 523. BAL 1119. Starrett 15. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 250. Item #13347
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1946. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "With Malice Aforethought" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59. Item #21019
TALES OF THE UNCANNY AND SUPERNATURAL.
London and New York: Peter Nevill Limited, [1949]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed and dated (1949) by the author on the front free end paper. Item #10179
THE WILL TO KILL.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books #S-67. Paperback original. Item #10810
LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER.
New York: Arbor House, 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collection of short stories. Item #5267
THE BRAINS OF RATS.
Los Angeles: Scream /Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Item #2971
TWILIGHT AND OTHER SUPERNATURAL ROMANCES. Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collection of supernatural stories edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Item #11389