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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. June, 1934.
Chicago: Teck Publications, Inc., June, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Gordon MacCreagh, Fred MacIsaac, Ralph Milne Farley, Borden Chase, Theodore Roscoe and others.
ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects 13 science fiction mystery stories.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover painting by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes "Opposites-React!" by Will Stewart (Jack Williamson), part of the Seetee series. Also fiction by A.E. Van Vogt, Anthony Boucher, Ross Rocklynne, Henry Kuttner, Lewis Padgett and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Ray Bradbury short story-his first in ASTOUNDING for the regular story section - "Doodad." It also includes an appearance in the PROBABILITY ZERO column (where his previous appearance was) with "And Watch the Fountains." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Captain S.P. Meek, Harl Vincent and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
MISSING!
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1969. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
SEE NO EVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF A GROUND SOLDIER IN THE CIA'S WAR ON TERRORISM.
New York: Crown Publishers, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Career CIA field officer's memoirs. Basis for the George Clooney film Syriana.
PRIVATE EYES: ONE HUNDRED AND ONE KNIGHTS. A SURVEY OF AMERICAN DETECTIVE FICTION 1922-1984.
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Critical survey of the private eye in U. S. popular fiction. The well known and the not so well known.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Signed by the author. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
IRIS.
New York: Doubleday/Foundation, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by Capobianco. Well received novel.
RAFT.
[London]: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's well-received first book. "... RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84.
ACROSS THE SEA OF SUNS.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1984]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Sequel to IN THE OCEAN OF THE NIGHT. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-45.
THE STARS IN SHROUD.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1978]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-73.
THE FROZEN YEAR.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
THE KIDNAPER.
New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion Books #185. Paperback original. "...one of the author's own favorites among his work, is THE KIDNAPPER, another first person narrative of a psychopath, cold, clinical, and unsparingly honest in treatment." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.
MAKING LOVE: A CONSPIRACY OF THE HEART.
London, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, Doubleday, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Brill on the title page.
THE BLOODY MOONLIGHT.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1949. Octavo, boards. First edition. Author's fourth mystery novel and third featuring Ed and Am Hunter. The murder mystery involves the possibility of lycanthropy to the plot. Hubin pp. 109-110.
RAYMOND CHANDLER: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Definitive bibliography of the works of Chandler.
THE MAN FROM THE NORLANDS.
Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-3] 4-292, jacket painting by N. C. Wyeth, original taupe cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore and bottom edges rough cut. First U. S. edition. First published in England as THE ISLAND OF SHEEP. A Richard Hannay novel.
A PRINCESS OF MARS.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1917. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xii [xiii-xvi] 1-326 [327] [328: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover, original dark brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange. First edition. The first book of the Mars series. Burroughs' first published story (written in 1911) and his only story to originally appear under a pseudonym. The story first appeared under the byline "Norman Bean" (he had intended that pen name be "Normal Bean") as a six-part serial "Under the Moons of Mars" in a Munsey magazine, THE ALL-STORY, February-July 1912. This novel preceded the first publication of "Tarzan of the Apes," published in the October 1912 issue of THE ALL-STORY. This popular novel inspired numerous writers and influenced the space faring sword and raygun stories as well as influencing scientists and filmakers. "...this pioneering account of John Carter's magical transmission to the the planet Mars and his subsequent baroque adventures established a new template for fiction set on other planets, developing such imaginative spaces as arenas for exuberantly uninhibited tales of exotic derring-do ... Although it hardly qualifies as science-based speculative fiction, Burroughs's account of Barsoom was enormously influential in pulp SF, standing at the head of a rich subgenre of 'planetary romances' whose evolution was carried forward by such writers as C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, and Ray Bradbury." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-194. Made into a feature film in 2012 as "John Carter." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-31; (1981) 1-31; (1987) 1-17; and (1995) 1-17. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-61. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 304. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 25. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 115. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1720-25. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02307. Heins PM-1.
TARZAN TRIUMPHANT.
Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, 1932. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by Studley O. Burroughs, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red. First edition. Heins TTr-1.
THE NIGHT FLOWER.
New York: The Macaulay Company, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1] [1-4] 5-7 [8] 9-311 [312-318], jacket art by Edward D'Ancona, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in red. First edition. After an armored car robbery in which guards are murdered, Charles Pursivant, a reformed criminal, is enlisted to recover the money and capture the criminals. E. C. Beckwith in the NY Times (16 August, 1936) wrote "This reviewer confidently chooses this book - as the best written, most artfully constructed and thoroughly interesting crime-adventure novel published thus far within the year." Second and final mystery using this pseudonym. Hubin, p. 123.
ALONE WITH THE HORRORS: THE GREAT SHORT FICTION OF RAMSEY CAMPBELL 1961-1991.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1993]. Octavo, illustrations by J. K. Potter, cloth. First edition. Retrospective collection of thirty-nine stories. "A cornerstone collection of modern horror." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-65. "...Ramsey Campbell is likely to be remembered as the leading horror writer of his generation, and perhaps the most significant writer in the field since Lovecraft. His unflinchingly bleak vision, his richly allusive style and his chilling analysis of abnormal psychology are certainly not best-seller material; but his very bountiful output-hundreds of short stories and nearly a score of novels-already represents a substantial contribution to weird fiction..." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 120-123.