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THE PRIVATE EYE.
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-284, jacket illustration by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., original light gray cloth, spine stamped in black, fore edge uncut. First edition. Private eye novel set in Arizona involving corrupt cops, gangsters and shady mine operators. "...in his own style Adams captured the gray and gritty feel of the time as powerfully as Chandler, and created as enduring an image of the private detective." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), p. 3. Some readers consider this one of Adams best books. Hubin, p. 3.
BLACK MARIA.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket 50059. Collects 92 drawings, over half from the New Yorker magazine.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover by Arnold Kohn, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Gibson Jones, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
DON'T COME CRYING TO ME.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Crime novel featuring Timothy Dane private eye. The Dane character is a romantic, ..."is a shamus like no other in fiction: young, naive, tender with women, inept at machismo, incapable of escaping tight spots singlehandedly, resorting to violence rarely. There is about Dane a sweetness, a delicate simplicity as incongruous as it is memorable." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 22-23. Hubin, p. 28.
DEATH FROM BELOW.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THE WINDS OF CHANGE.
Garden City: Doublday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Asimov on the title page. Collects twenty-one stories.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Part 2 of "The Cosmic Engineers" by Clifford Simak. The "Cloak of Aesir" by Don A. Stuart (John W. Campbell, Jr.). Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
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. 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 W. Brown, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John Russell Fearn, Nat Schachner, Eric Frank Russell, Eando Binder and others. Part 4 (conclusion) of the serial novel Galactic Patrol by E.E. Smith is also in this issue. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by Howard V. Brown. Stories by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Murray Leinster, Raymond Z. Gallun and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Jack Williamson, Ray Cummings, Arthur J. Burks and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., September, 1934. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features The Skylark of Valeron by "Doc" Smith (part 2), other stories by Donald Wandrei, Nat Schachner, Jack Williamson (The Legion of Space, conclusion) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
THE TIME SHIPS.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's sixth novel, a sequel to the TIME MACHINE by H. G. Wells. "Baxter's finest single early work ... [It] won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1996, as well as the Philip K Dick Award, the latter given ... for the book's later publication in the U.S. in paperback ... Based explicitly and with the approval of his estate on H. G. Wells's THE TIME MACHINE (1895), this sequel ... confirms the sense that Baxter is almost certainly the premier current author of the scientific romance, and that –- like his great predecessors in the form, Wells, Olaf Stapledon and Arthur C Clarke (with whom he has collaborated) –- he tends most naturally to work out the implications of his tales through long-breathed evolutionary perspectives; that he is pessimistic about how likely it is that the human race is destined to triumph, either on this planet or abroad; that he is uncomfortable with the model of the competent man central to twentieth-century American hard SF; and that he has a sweet-tooth for the eschatological climax." - John Clute, SFE (online).
COSM.
New York: Avon Books, 1998. Wrappers. First edition. Advance uncorrected proof.
THE FAITHFUL.
New York: Random House, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Berenson on the title page. The author's first spy thriller and the debut of his character John Wells. Edgar award winner for best first novel.
DEATH IN THE FIFTH POSITION.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's uncommon first mystery.
DARK CARNIVAL.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3112 copies printed. The author's first book. Collects twenty-seven stories, most first appearing in magazines, sixteen from WEIRD TALES. Six stories are published here for the first time; "The Maiden," "The Emissary," "Jack-in-the-Box," "Uncle Einer," "The Night Sets," and "Next in Line." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-34. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #254. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-42.
MURDER CALIFORNIA STYLE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology featuring stories from the Southern California chapter of the M.W.A.
NIGHT OF THE JABBERWOCK.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Publishers, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Brown at the top of his game. "A wild whirl for Doc Stoeger who edits a paper and indulges a passion for chess, Lewis Carroll and ardent spirits, when he witnesses a band robbery, the unloosing of a lunatic, a brush with a killer mob, and is involved with an Alice in Wonderland afficianado in a haunted house while two corpses are planted in his car compartment. A fancy fling which has some plain answers, this Valpurgisnacht features a virtuoso performance by Stoeger and is ingenious." Kirkus review, 1 December, 1950. Hubin pp. 109-110. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights: The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 94-5.
WARRIOR OF THE DAWN: THE ADVENTURES OF THARN.
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, [1943]. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
THE QUICK BROWN FOX.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1-2] 3-267 [268: printer's information] [269-272: blank], original orange cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in red, top edge stained orange. First edition. Criminal terrorists become the power in a small town. "...this powerful story of native terrorists who make gangsters look like boy scouts." - jacket copy. Hubin, pp. 119-120.
THE BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE.
Dayton, OH: The McCall Company, 1930. Octavo, seven issues, covers and interior illustrations by Frank Hoban, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Complete seven part serial "Tarzan at the Earth's Core." All issues feature a Tarzan cover painting. Zeuscher, Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography, pp. 401.
DOMNEI: A COMEDY OF WOMAN-WORSHIP.
New York: James McBride, 1930. Octavo, Hardcover. First illustrated edition. 10 full page drawings, 30 chapter headings by Frank C. Pape.
CLAW.
London & Sydney: Macdonald & Co, [1983]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A young child is endangered by her parents when then come under the influence of an ancient artifact. Issued later in the U. S. as NIGHT OF THE CLAW (1983).