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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.
ENEMIES OF THE SYSTEM...
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1978]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. "Authoritarian dystopia." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 384.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Dunellen, N. J. Teck Publishing Corporation, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES.
Jamaica, NY: Experimenter Publications, Inc., 1929. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Hugh Mackay, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes a Jules Verne reprint, conclusion. Other fiction by David H. Keller, Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1927. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Features part one of "The Land That Time Forgot" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Other authors include H.G. Wells, Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg, Garrett P. Serviss and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
AMAZING STORIES.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Company, 1928. Large octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "The Comet Doom" by Edmond Hamilton (depicted in the cover painting in what appears to be a robot cover it is an alien creature in a metal shell), other fiction by A. Hyatt Verrill, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 14-49.
THE END OF A WORLD. Translated from the French by Jeffery E. Jeffery.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-268 [269: colophon] [270: blank] [note: title leaf mounted on a stub], illustrations, title page printed in brown and black, original decorated yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and green, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained green, decorated endpapers. First edition in English. Prehistoric romance recording the last cycle in the history of a community of the Cro-Magnon period. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-4. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 41. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 015. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 21 (recording a copy of the British issue). The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction, p. 5. Bleiler (1978), p. 5. Reginald 00340.
BRAIN GUY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel, hard boiled crime. Intelligent guy stumbles into the underworld and becomes the leader of a mob. Hubin, p. 27.
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.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by George Worts, Ralph Milne Farley, Borden Chase and others.
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 Heinlein), Hal Clement, Lewis Padgett and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Large octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Bedsheet format. Includes Lester Del Rey, A.E. Van Vogt, Murray Leinster, L. Ron Hubbard and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
ASTOUNDING STORIES.
New York: The Clayton Magazines, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Cover painting by H.W. Wesso. Features stories by Jack Williamson, Nat Schachner, Ray Cummings and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
THE APPREHENSIVE DOG ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-294, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained terra cotta, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, white endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK as NO MURDER (1942). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
FEERSUM ENDJINN.
[London]: Orbit, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, Novel, 1995. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-74.
SABBATICAL: A ROMANCE.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
KEEPING TIME.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Private eye sf novel set in the near future with a dystopian setting. "Shamus Jack Hughes, ex-lawyer and gloomy widower, is hired to find out who stole five time-storage cassettes from a new experimental ""time deposit bank"" (posh clients can put away bits of their own time and draw on it later)." - Kirkus review 1 November, 1979.
THE MAGIC MAN: AND OTHER SCIENCE-FANTASY STORIES.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1586. Paperback original. Collect eighteen stories, introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Richard Matheson.
IN THE UPPER ROOM AND OTHER LIKELY STORIES.
New York: Tor, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second collection of short fiction. Collects sixteen stories.
THE SCARF.
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page: "Best wishes-Robert Bloch."
THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, Publisher, [1977]. First edition. A survey of typography in America from the earliest days. Also covers great private and special presses. Sections are The Colonial Period, The Nineteenth and Into the Twentieth Century, The Renaissance of American Printing, The Twentieth Century. With 70 plates.
JEHOVAH'S DAY.
London: William Heinemann Ltd, n.d., [1928]. pp. [1-8] 1-492, original maroon cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's windmill device stamped in blind on rear panel. First edition. This novel "... conflates the mythic figure of Eryops, the Mud Puppy, who embodies the force of Evolution over aeons, and a Near Future catastrophe which destroys London." - SFE online. "... is a work of tremendous scope. The day in question had lasted for a hundred million years, from a morning of mud puppies in primordial slime to an evening of today. To quote the author, the day "is spread out in a circle, with the morning and evening running together around the edge." The foreground of the novel is a story of modern London. Behind each character is his remotest ancestor, and each is true to his type, mud puppy, horse, fish or reptile." - book review in The Scarsdale Inquirer, 12 April, 1929. Bleiler (1978), p. 27. Reginald 01630.
DUSTY AYRES AND HIS BATTLE BIRDS.
[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR141. Book 3 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. The author of this series was a flyer with the R.A.F. in the latter stages of WWI, he wrote numerous aviation stories starting in the 1930s. The Dusty Ayres series was set in the near future. The world with the exception of the United States has been conquered by an Asiatic dictator. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 194-196.
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES...
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1983. Octavo, blue cloth stamped in gold, black endpapers, all edges gilt. First edition. One of 75 copies specially bound for Bradbury's use. Inscribed and signed by Bradbury to a well known fan, noting (mistakenly) 1 of 70 special copies and dated 1986. This new edition was issued to coincide with the release of the 1983 film. "...remains the quintessential Bradbury fiction." – Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1769-73. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-45. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-51.
STARTIDE RISING.
West Bloomfield, MI: Phantasia Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 375 numbered copies signed by Brin. Nebula award winner, 1983, Hugo award winner, 1984 for best novel. This book includes textual revisions by the author for this edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-162.