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THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2000.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects nine stories by classic writers.
SUB ROSA: STRANGE TALES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64.
A GATHERING OF SPIES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Spy thriller set in 1943 involving Atomic secrets.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1926. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. The first issue of the first English language magazine devoted solely to science fiction. This issue was all previous published material, the authors included Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, Austin Hall, George Allan England and G. Peyton Wertenbaker. Dated April 1926 it appeared on the newstands March 5, 1926. The enticing cover by Frank R. Paul illustrates Jules Verne's "Off on a Comet." Gernsback's first editorial title says it all "A New Sort of Magazine." The initial print run was in the neighborhood of 100,000 copies, and it sold out. "The response to Gernsback's new venture was overwhelming." and in response to reader's views on the frequency [of publication] of the new magazine "...33,000 responded with all except 498 asking that the frequency be doubled. Amazing Stories was an overnight success, and the history of science fiction entered a new phase." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, p. 16. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES. June, 1934.
Chicago: Teck Publications, Inc., June, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Leo Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Gibson Jones, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part two of "The Return of Tharne" by Howard Browne. Also fiction by Chester Geier, Berkeley Livingston, Lee Francis (house pseudonym, here used by Leroy Yerxa) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
INTRIGUE: FOUR GREAT SPY NOVELS OF ERIC AMBLER...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960]. Octavo, cloth. New edition. This edition first published in 1943, reset with new plate for this edition. Collects JOURNEY INTO FEAR, A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS, CAUSE FOR ALARM and BACKGROUND TO DANGER. Introduction by Alfred Hitchcock.
ASIMOV'S MYSTERIES.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects 13 science fiction mystery stories.
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.
OPUS 300.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. First issue with the logo change with Astounding in block letters across the top of the magazine. Stories by L. Sprague De Camp, Manly Wade Wellman, Edmond Hamilton, Lester Del Rey and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents feature "Sixth Column" by Anson MacDonald (pseudonym for Robert Heinlein), part 1. 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. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
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. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
THE KING'S PASSPORT.
New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi 1 [2] 3-336, original light orange cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top page edges stained orange, illustrated end papers. First edition. Signed inscription by Jones dated in the year of publication. Historical adventure novel featuring D'Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac and involving Cardinal Richelieu.
THE UNKNOWN FIVE.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-962. Paperback original. Collects five stories, four published in UNKNOWN /UNKNOWN WORLDS pulp magazine. The fifth story by Isaac Asimov, "Author! Author!" was accepted by John W. Campbell for UNKNOWN but the magazine folded before it was published. This is the first publication. Other authors are Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Cleve Cartmill and Jane Rice.
LIKE A LAMB TO SLAUGHTER.
New York: Arbor House, 1984. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collection of short stories.
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.
EARTH.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1990]. Octavo, full black leather, spine panel stamped in gold, a.e.g. First edition. Limited to 342 (unnumbered) copies signed by Brin. "...it's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the ultimate disaster." - from the David Brin website. Hugo award nominee for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-158.
DRAWING BLOOD.
[New York]: Delacorte Press, [1993]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First trade edition. The author's second novel.
AMONG THE DEAD AND OTHER EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE APOCALYPSE.
New York: Macmillan, 1973. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Bryant. Author's first book.
THE MOON ENDURETH: TALES AND FANCIES ...
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-ix] x [xi] xii-xiv [1-3] 4-324 [1-2] 3 [4]: ads [note: first leaf is a blank] + 64-page publisher's catalogue dated "12/11" at bottom of page 64 inserted at rear, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver and gold. First edition. Collects ten stories and ten poems. Two of the stories, "Space" and "The Grove of Ashtaroth," are "among Buchan's best work" - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 292. The UK edition includes three stories ("Streams of Water in the South," "The Riding of the Ninemileburn," and "The Rime of True Thomas") and two poems that were omitted from the later U.S. edition that added a story, "Fountainblue," not included in this UK edition. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-38. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 62. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 56-7. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-45. Bleiler (1978), p. 33. Reginald 02092.
FALSE NIGHT.
New York: Lion Books, 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. Story of the survivors of a world wide plague.
PELLUCIDAR.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-322 [323-236: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, one map, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 10,000 copies printed. Second book of the Pellucidar series featuring David Innes. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-20. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 312. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 113. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1665-68. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02303. Heins P-1.
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-333 [334-335: ads] [336: blank], eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original olive cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. First edition. Two issues (printings?) noted, priority, if any, unknown; sheets of this copy bulk 25 mm. 25,000 copies printed (probable multiple printings). Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 324. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02321. Heins GL-1. Zeuschner 582.