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DEEP PURPLE.
[Sevenoaks, Kent]: New English Library, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Allbeury on the front free endpaper. Spy thriller involving Soviet defectors. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 470.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1928. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "The Miracle of the Lilly," by Claire Winger Harris, thought to be the first woman to start her publishing career in the SF genre pulp magazines of the 1920s, this is her second published story in Amazing. Also includes, H. G. Wells, David H. Keller, Hal Grant and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES.
Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Piracy Preferred" by John W. Campbell, Jr.
AMAZING STORIES.
Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1930. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "Piracy Preferred" by John W. Campbell, Jr., also fiction by Edmond Hamilton, p. 2 of "The Universe Wreckers." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by James Treason, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
FLANDRY OF TERRA.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three Dominic Flandry stories, "The Game of Glory" and "A Message in Secret," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as MAYDAY ORBIT, and "The Plague of Masters," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as EARTHMAN, GO HOME!
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by H. Bedford Jones ("The Mysterious John Solomon"), George F. Worts, T. S. Stribling, Fred MacIsaac and others.
BEAST MARKS.
Willimantic, Connecticut: Mark V. Ziesing, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Attanasio and artists Rick DeMarco and Rich Schindler. Collects seven short stories, including a Sherlock Holmes story.
CLIVE BARKER'S SHADOWS IN EDEN. Edited by Stephen Jones.
[Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1991]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance review copy of the first edition. Exploration of the career of Clive Barker with writings by and about Barker which includes interviews, introductions and articles by Barker and articles and essays about Barker by Ramsey Campbell, John Brosnan, Michael A. Morrison, Stanley Wiater, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and many others. Introduction by Stephen King. Includes a detailed primary bibliography of Barker's work in all media produced from March 1984 to June 1990. Well-illustrated with artwork by Barker, photographs and stills.
BLACK MASK.
Chicago: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Edgar A. Whitney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Steve Fisher, Frederick C. Davis and others.
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "This book recounts the strange happenings in a northeastern British town that presage the end of the world ... The final discovery is among the author's more inspired creations, and the climax ranks among his best." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 37. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-38. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-22.
OUR LADY OF PAIN.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. Octavo, boards. First edition. "...probably Blackburn's most tightly structured, exciting book." - Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-41.
HOMUNCULUS.
[Bath, Avon]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "A tangle of mildly sinister misadventures in Victorian London, with shades of Dickens, Sax Rohmer and Rider Haggard." - Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-35. Philip K Dick award winner, 1986. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-57.
THE SELECTED STORIES OF ROBERT BLOCH ...
Los Angeles, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1987. Octavo, three volumes, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered sets signed by Bloch (this is copy number 3). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-47.
YESTERDAY KNOCKS. Introduction by Patricia and Lionel Fanthorpe.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Ghost stories in the vein of M.R. James. This volume collects all eleven of the author's ghost stories, the first five which appeared in a privately printed volume with the same title.
BILLINGSGATE SHOAL.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1982. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Edgar award for best first novel, 1982.
THE PLANET SAVERS.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1962 Ace edition. New introduction by Marion Zimmer Bradley. A Darkover novel. This is the first published Darkover novel which first appeared in Amazing Stories (1958). "The Darkover series has a science-fictional rationale, but much of it has a fantasy feel." Pringle (ed.) - St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, pp. 68-71. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-77. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-47. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 488-92.
STORM QUEEN!
Boston: Gregg Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition, first printing. Text offset from that of the the 1978 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.
FOG OF DOUBT.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First Gregg Press edition. New edition. An Inspector Cockrill mystery. New introduction by the author. Hubin, p. 96.
THE CASE OF THE DANCING SANDWICHES.
New York: Dell Published Company, Inc., [1951]. Small octavo, cover by Robert Stanley, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 10 cent Book #33. Paperback original. This story was first published in Mystery Book Magazine, Summer, 1950.
THE COOL MAN.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal d1890. Paperback original. Crime novel. Hubin, p. 120.
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-316, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Modest Stein, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 5000 copies printed. Heins BHB-1.
THE ILLUSTRATED TARZAN BOOKS NO. 1.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-79 [80: ads], original pictorial boards with green cloth shelf back. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Hal Foster from his daily comic strip. Heins TA-11.
SEVEN SLAYERS.
Los Angeles: Blood & Guts Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One thousand copies printed, this is one of 250 numbered and signed by the author of the introduction William F. Nolan. Story collection, all hard boiled, all are from Black Mask.
MIDSUMMER PASSION AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition of this collection. Probable later issue. Avon 177. Collects fourteen stories from the hardcover collection JACKPOT (1940) and one story from THE AMERICAN EARTH. This edition is a likely a later issue as it omits the disturbing story "Blue Boy" and replaces it with the benign "Molly Cotton-Tail."