Featured Items
10 STORY MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Fictioneers, Inc. 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Bruno Fischer story using the Russell Gray pseudonym "They Knew Dolly" Item #16196
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1927. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes part three, the final part, of "The Land That Time Forgot" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Also a story by Harry Stephen Keeler. Item #20331
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by James B. Settles, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part one of "The Return of Tharne" by Howard Browne. Item #17906
A TASTE OF TREASURE.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Item #5420
NORBY'S OTHER SECRET.
New York: Walker and Company, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Norby book. Item #17726
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Howard V. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first published story by Lester Del Rey, "The Faithful." Item #18408
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1940. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 3 of "Final Blackout" by L. Ron Hubbard. Includes "The Roads Must Roll" by Robert A. Heinlein. Item #21873
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1940. Octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Part 2 of "Final Blackout" by L. Ron Hubbard. Includes the last novel by Phil[ip] [Francis] Nowlan, "Space Guards." Also stories by Clifford Simak, Jack Williamson and others. Item #20975
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 1942. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Lester Del Rey, A.E. Van Vogt, Murray Leinster, L. Ron Hubbard and others. Item #20845
ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Ray Cummings, Captain S.P. Meek and others. Item #20946
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc. 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features stories by Ralph Milne Farley, Harl Vincent and others. Item #20958
CHIEF TALLON AND THE S.O.R.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Item #5358
WEAVEWORLD.
New York: Poseidon Press, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-23. Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-18. Item #6603
TRAIN'S TRUST: A WESTERN STORY.
New York: Chelsea House, 1926. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Item #3563
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. Item #11761
THE FACE: COLLECTED SPOOK STORIES VOLUME FOUR. Edited by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 600 copies printed. The fourth of five volumes of Benson's supernatural tales. This volume has stories from December 1923 to November 1927. Item #15359
BLACK MASK.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Manhattan Horse Opera" by John D. MacDonald. Item #16171
DIAGNOSIS: HOMICIDE: THE CASEBOOK OF DR. COFFEE.
Philadelphia, New York, J.B. Lippincott Company, [1950]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first collection of Dr. Coffee stories. Queens Quorum #106. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 67-68. Item #11303
EXILES OF TIME.
Philadelphia: Prime Press, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-50. Item #15383
WATER HAZARD.
[New York]: Delacorte Press, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Signed inscription by Borg to a mystery publisher and bookseller. Psychological thiller. "Sexual debauchery and twisted identities reign in an intricately descriptive first novel, a thriller that reads like North by Northwest re-scripted by Joe Eszterhas and Franz Kafka." - Kirkus Review, 1/1/95. Item #16223
BLACK MAGIC: A TALE OF THE RISE AND FALL OF ANTICHRIST.
London: Alston Rivers, Ltd. 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [1-2] 3-390 [391: blank] [392: ad] [note first leaf is a blank preceding half title leaf] + 24-page publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1908 inserted at rear, verso of half title leaf and recto of title leaf printed in black and green, original pictorial gray cloth, front panel stamped in gold, black and blue, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The author's first weird novel. "... a rousing historical melodrama in which the sorceress Ursula becomes Pope Joan, and very nearly the Antichrist. It remains one of the best diabolist thrillers." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 50. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-32. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 23. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 245. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 38. Bleiler (1978), p. 28. Reginald 01698. Item #18043
ANGELS & DEMONS.
New York, London... Pocket Books, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first novel to feature Robert Langdon, set in Vatican City. Item #11611
THE DA VINCI CODE.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [2003]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Runaway bestseller mystery/thriller about the Holy Grail and secret societies. Basis for the feature film starring Tom Hanks. Item #9865
MADBALL.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc. [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 2E. Paperback original. Mystery novel with Carny setting. Item #16370
MOSTLY MURDER.
New York: Pennant Books, [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pennant #P59. Collection of 18 stories. Item #11347