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10-STORY DETECTIVE.
Springfield, MA: Periodical House, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Bruno Fischer short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 561-562.
ASSIGNMENT-LILI LEMARIS.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second printing. Gold Medal k1372. Second printing, first published in 1959, GM s911. 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.
DRACULA UNBOUND.
[New York]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1991]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Time travelers connect with Bram Stoker to fight Dracula from a future where the human race is enslaved.
THE WATCHMEN.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Suspense/thriller novel.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pulp magazine. Fiction by L[ucille] Taylor Hansen, Neil R. Jones, William McGivern, Don Wilcox and others. 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 Robert Gibson Jones, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Fuqua, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Manly Wade Wellman, Edmond Hamilton, Nelson Bond (Lancelot Biggs) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Gibson Jones. pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Large octavo, single issue cover painting by Hubert Rogers, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Anson MacDonald (Robert A. Heinlein) "Beyond This Horizon," A.E. Van Vogt, L. Ron Hubbard, Colin Keith (Malcolm Jameson) and others. In this issue the first appearance of the Probability Zero column appears, it includes a short piece by George E. Dale which is a pseudonym for Isaac Asimov. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Charles Schneeman, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Part 3 of "The Cosmic Engineers" by Clifford Simak, part 1 of "One Against the Legion" by Jack Williamson. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover painting by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Conclusion of "One Against the Legion" by Jack Williamson. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
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 STORIES OF SUPER SCIENCE.
New York: Publishers' Fiscal Corporation, 1930. Octavo, cover painting by Wesso[lowski], pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The second issue. Stories by Victor Rousseau, Harl Vincent, Hugh B. Cave and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD.
New York: Avon, 1982. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. A Michael Sprague mystery.
THE INNOCENTS.
New York: Walker, 1995. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first mystery.
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).
STRENGTH OF STONES.
Wallington, Surrey: Severn House, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. "On a colonized planet the highly automated cities have ejected their human inhabitants, who now eke out a living in the wilderness." - - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 356. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 404-405.
ONE WINTER IN EDEN.
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 3596 copies printed. Bishop's second collection of short fiction. Collects twelve short stories including the Nebula award winner, "The Quickening." See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-123.
BLACK MASK.
New York: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel, John Lawrence, Roger Torrey and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 62-68.
BLACK EASTER/THE DAY AFTER JUDGMENT.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Chronologically BLACK EASTER and THE DAY AFTER JUDGMENT comprise the second part of the "After Such Knowledge" trilogy. Preceded by DOCTOR MIRABALIS and followed by A CASE OF CONSCIENCE. Introduction by David Hartwell. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-38. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 83. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 41. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 122-28. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 233-37. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 52-3. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-42.
WELCOME TO MARS.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
DRAGONS AND NIGHTMARES: FOUR SHORT NOVELS.
Baltimore: Mirage, 1968. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Collects "A Good Knight's Work," "The Eager Dragon," "Nursemaid to Nightmares" and "Black Barter." Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-39.
BULLET TRICK.
[Colorado Springs, CO]: Gauntlet Publications, 2009. Octavo, boards. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Bradbury. This is copy number 31. Collects unpublished teleplays as well as two short stories adapted by Bradbury for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone but never used.
SWEET DREAMS, IRENE.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. The second Irene Kelly mystery.
HIGH SIERRA.
New York [and] London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-292 [293: blank] [294: printer's information] [295-296: blank], original dark orange cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in gray, top edge stained red, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Signed inscription by Burnett on the verso of the half title page: "For / Jean / sincere best / W R Burnett." This classic novel is "...in effect, the biography of Roy Earle, a fictional creation who reflects the lives of several eminent American outlaws of the 1920s and 1930s...Far from the myths created by J. Edgar Hoover's biased attitude toward the criminals of the 1930s, Burnett gives us a sad, sometimes surreal look at a true outlaw." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 100-101. Filmed in 1941 by Raoul Walsh from a screenplay by Burnett and John Huston, starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart. Filmed as a Western in 1949, Colorado Territory and again in 1955 with Jack Palance as Roy Earle asI Died A Thousand Times. Hubin, pp. 119-120.