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ASSIGNMENT-SUICIDE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. Gold Medal k1539. First published in 1956, GM 621. C.I.A. agent Sam Durell. Bill Pronzini writing of the Sam Durell novels "Despite all the violence and melodrama...[the] Durell novels are compulsive reading. Aarons was an accomplished writer, with excellent descriptive abilities...and an expert sense of narrative pacing." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 1. Hubin, p. 1.
ASSIGNMENT: STAR STEALERS.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1970. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal T2281. C.I.A. agent Sam Durell. Bill Pronzini writing of the Sam Durell novels "Despite all the violence and melodrama...[the] Durell novels are compulsive reading. Aarons was an accomplished writer, with excellent descriptive abilities...and an expert sense of narrative pacing." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 1.
TRILLION YEAR SPREE: THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION...
New York: Atheneum, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. Revised and updated version of BILLION YEAR SPREE (1973). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-5.
AMAZING STORIES.
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.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Fuqua, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contains the third Adam Link story, "Adam Link in Business" by Eando Binder.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Anthony Gilmore (pseudonym for Harry Bates and D. W. Hall), Nelson Bond, Ray Cummings and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
THE ENEMY STARS.
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.
COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THE GODS THEMSELVES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "In the twenty-second century, Earth and men of a para-universe establish an ideal energy exchange. Through Earthmen's electron pump and the para-men's position pump, the energy needs of both worlds are satisfied without energy loss to either. A few probing skeptics, men and para-men, learn that in time the exchange will explode our Sun, but both scientific establishments ignore their alarm. The 'fathers' of the energy pumps, puffed with pride and selfishness, will not allow their reputation, doctrine, and achievement to be jeopardized ... The blind egotism and leaden conscience of his [Asimov's] scientific establishments offer no promise that a world ruled by scientists rather than politicians would be more free of it." - Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, p. 130. THE GODS THEMSELVES ... which was only the second genuine singleton of his career and which won both Hugo and Nebula awards, proved to be his finest single creation, a complex tale involving potentially catastrophic energy transfers between alternate universes and -- rarely for him -- intriguing alien beings (they are considerably more interesting than the humans in the cast)." - John Clute / Malcolm J. Edwards, SFE (online). Written with a verve and economy that are missing from Asimov's later novels." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-48. Winner of the 1972 Nebula award and 1973 Hugo award for best novel. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 909-14.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Ross Rocklynne, Theodore Sturgeon (with two pieces-the other as "E. Waldo Hunter)," Harry Bates 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." Also includes Hal Clement, A. E. Van Vogt, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) and C. L. Moore. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Article on rockets by Willy Ley "Dawn of the Conquest of Space." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
IN OTHER WORLDS.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The second novel in the Radix Tetrad.
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE MORGUE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Ed Noon.
THE 25TH HOUR.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Contemporary crime novel, filmed in 2002 by Spike Lee.
GHOSTS IN THE HOUSE. Introduction by Hugh Lamb.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 400 copies plus a few extras for legal deposit purposes. Collects nineteen stories, all selected from A. C. Benson's THE HILL OF TROUBLE (1903), THE ISLE OF SUNSET (1905) and BASIL NETHERBY (1927) and R. H. Benson's THE LIGHT INVISIBLE (1903) and A MIRROR OF SHALOTT (1907), plus "Haunted Houses," a nonfiction article by R. H. Benson first reprinted here, with introduction by editor Hugh Lamb.
BLOODED ON ARACHNE.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.
COUNT GEIGER'S BLUES.
New York: Tor, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES ...
New York: Donald C. Vaughan, 1915. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-316 [317: blank] [318-320: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original dark blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. The U.S. edition, published in March 1915, consisted of 500 copies made up from the second printing of the UK edition printed in February 1915. The author's first book, first published in 1906. Collects ten stories. In 1927, when Derleth received this book, he was in the midst of an intensive study of recent supernatural fiction, a study which culminated in his bachelor's thesis for the University of Wisconsin, and which laid the foundation for his founding of Arkham House. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 175. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1442-43. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-30. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01383. Ashley A.1.5.
PETER PARLEY TO PENROD: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BEST-LOVED AMERICAN JUVENILE BOOKS.
Waltham, MA: Mark Press, 1974. Octavo, cloth. Later edition.
NIGHTMARES AND DAYDREAMS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1968. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Bond on the front free end paper. Story collection, fourteen stories and a poem. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 229.
THE STARMEN.
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Space opera, first published as "The Starmen of Llyrdis" in Startling Stories in March, 1951.
THE AARDVARK AFFAIR.
New York: Zebra Books, [1975]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The Big Brain No. 1. Planned before birth, Colin Garrett is an off the charts genius, working for a secret government organization.
WILDERS WALK AWAY.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1948. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first mystery. Reynold Frame, freelance journalist investigates the disappearance of a young woman. "There is plenty of eerie mystery here, a fine sense of small-town New England life circa 1948, and some fascinating bits and pieces of colonial history woven in." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, p. 86. Hubin, p. 99.
ROSS MACDONALD/KENNETH MILLAR: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition.