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ASSIGNMENT: CONG HAI KILL.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. A Sam Durell thriller.
AIR STORIES.
New York: Flying Stories, Inc., 1928. Octavo, single issue, cover by H.C. Murphy, Jr., pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Air stories. Stories by George Bruce, Joel Townsley Rogers, Frederick C. Davis, Frederick L. Nebel and others.
HOTHOUSE.
London: Faber and Faber, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Aldiss on the title page. Issued earlier in the U.S. in a shorter version as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962). Novelization of five Hothouse stories that won the 1962 Hugo award for best short fiction published in 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-3. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 34.
DANCERS IN MOURNING.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-14] [1] 2-336 [337-338: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, endpaper maps. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion. "A splendid achievement, not only as a plot but as an exhibition of a group of characters ... Very nearly her second masterpiece" - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 33. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York, NY: Teck Publishing Corporation, 1931. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1928. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains "Metal Man" by Jack Williamson, the author's first published story.
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.
NINJA'S REVENGE.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion N2821. Paperback original. Book 4 in the Jason Striker, Master of Martial Arts series.
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.
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THE HUGO WINNERS: VOLUME 4 [1976-1979].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects thirteen stories. Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman, Spider and Jean Robinson, Joan D. Vinge, Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Poul Anderson and C.J. Cherryh.
ASIMOV'S SHERLOCKIAN LIMERICKS.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1978. Small octavo, illustrated by Gahan Wilson, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist. Sixty limericks, one for each of the sixty tales of the Sherlockian canon.
MURDER AT THE ABA: A PUZZLE IN FOUR DAYS AND SIXTY SCENES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Mystery.
PEBBLE IN THE SKY.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Octavo, jacket illustration by Richard Powers, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-15.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, cover illustration by Hulbert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents feature "Coventry" by Robert Heinlein and "The Idealist" by Kurt von Rachen (pseudonym for L. Ron Hubbard).
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine. Part 2 of "The Cosmic Engineers" by Clifford Simak. The "Cloak of Aesir" by Don A. Stuart.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 1 of "Second Stage Lensman" by E.E. Smith.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by H.W. Wesso. Features stories by David R. Sparks, Harl Vincent and others.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publisher's Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Murray Leinster, Ray Cummings, Victor Rousseau and others,
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., August, 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features stories by Ralph Milne Farley, Harl Vincent, Captain S.P. Meek and others.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by H.W. Wesso. Features stories by Arthur J. Burks, R.F. Starzl and Ray Cummings.
THE TORCH.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. SF tale of the year 3100 A.D. after nuclear disaster. First published in Argosy magazine.
THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE.
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-299 [230: blank] [231: Crime Club statement] [232: blank], cloth. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham. "...it should appeal to those who like the combination of good characterization and armchair dectection". - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 36-37. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
DEADBONE EROTICA.
New York... Bantam Books, [1971]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Book Y5869. Collects material first published in Cavalier magazine as Deadbone. Presented in black and white.
KECKSIES AND OTHER TWILIGHT TALES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4391 copies printed. Collects twelve stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 248. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-41. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-33.
THE SPELL SWORD.
Boston: Gregg Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1974 DAW Books edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92. Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71.