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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.
ACT OF PROVIDENCE.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lucius Leffing investigates at the First World Fantasy Convention. Also includes a Lucius Leffing bibliography.
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.
WEAR THE BUTCHERS' MEDAL.
New York: Pocket Books, 1965. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Mystery novel set in Europe.
INTENT TO KILL.
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1956]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell #88. Paperback original. Mystery novel.
SOMEONE IN THE ROOM: STRANGE TALES OLD AND NEW. Introduction by Jack Adrian.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Edited by Jack Adrian. This collects twenty - eight fictions, half of which comprise all the stories in the author's rare second collection of the same title (published in 1931 under the pseudonym 'Ex-Private X'), plus another twelve stories (seven in book form for the first time), plus two essays by the author on ghosts and ghost stories.
THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND ...
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-316, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Modest Stein, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 5000 copies printed. Heins BHB-1.
LOST ON VENUS.
Tarzana, California: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6-8] 9-318 [319: ads] [320: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original pebbled blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, top edge stained red. First edition. Second book of the Venus series. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-29. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02293. Heins LV-1.
THE RETURN OF TARZAN.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1915. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-365 [366-368: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original dark green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. The second Tarzan novel. "Tarzan rescues Jane and discovers untold riches in Opar, the last, much degenerated, outpost of Atlantis." - Teitler and Locke (2013) 194. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 316. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 116. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 35. Reginald 02309. Heins RT-1.
BRAIN ULTIMATE.
London: Panther Books are Printed in Great Britain and Published by Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by John Richards, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Panther No. 86. A scientist dreams fighting the dictatorship of the planets using disembodied brains of murdered men. "The novel ends on a Stapledonian note, with the establishment of an interstellar gestalt. By turns scientific and mystical, it is one of Campbell's better efforts." - Harbottle and Holland. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 91. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 246. Reginald 02497. Harbottle and Holland A54.
THE BLACK STAR PASSES.
Reading: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. Space opera. Dust jacket art by Binkley. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-210.
SLOW.
[Round Top, NY]: Bill Munster Publisher, [1986]. Octavo, illustrations by Allen Koszowski, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Campbell. Booklet. Short story by Campbell with introduction by T. E. D. Klein.
SUPER SCIENCE STORIES.
Toronto: Fictioneers, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Lawrence, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, Canadian issue, issued simultaneously with the U. S. edition with identical story content, editorial control in New York. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 631-635.
SAINTS: A NOVEL...
[Burton, MI]: Subterranean Press, 2007. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Trade hardcover edition. Signed and dated by Card. Historical fiction concerning a woman who emigrates to the U. S. and eventually marries Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints movement. Originally published in 1984 titled WOMAN OF DESTINY.
SEVENTH SON.
[New York}: Tor, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The Tales of Alvin Maker, Vol. 1. Barron (ed): Fantasy Literature 4A-58.
FIVE SINISTER CHARACTERS.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second paperback edition. Avon #88. Trade paperback. First published by Avon first as part of their Murder Mystery Monthly series. Story collection. Raymond Chandler: A Descriptive Bibiography-A6.2.
PLAYBACK.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Cardinal Edition #C-375. A Philip Marlowe novel.
THE SANDS OF MARS.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second SF book.
RAMA II.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1989]. First U.S. edition. The second Rama book, sequel to Rendezvous With Rama (1973).
CLUES DETECTIVE STORIES.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Fredric Brown, Norman A. Daniels, Steve Fisher writing at "Stephen Gould," and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 96-100.
BLOOD SIMPLE: AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Wrappers. First edition. Text of the screenplay from Blood Simple, the brothers first feature film.
THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE: A STORY OF THE YEAR 2236.
London: Elliot Stock, 1900. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-213 [214-216: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original dark olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, black coated endpapers, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Cole's first novel, THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE, "took the future war novel to its logical conclusion. In a utopian future the Anglo-Saxon Federation has expanded into other solar systems when interstellar warfare breaks out between Earth and a superior race from the Sirius system. The description of space battles, and of an Earth surrounded by a barrage of space torpedoes and mines while scientists struggle to perfect the ultimate weapon, makes it the equal of many of the space-opera stories of the 1930s." - Clute and Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 242. "The first real space opera, filled with space battles, invasions, and escalating weapons; a nineteenth-century E. E. Smith story in many respects ... A remarkable work for its time. While the theme of the story is obviously that of a naval imaginary war of the terrestrial sort, the author goes far beyond this in his concept of space empires, weapons, space tactics, and much else. The story vehicle is trivial, but the strengths elsewhere more than make up for this weakness. In some of the descriptions there is a touch like M. P. Shiel's. THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE is one of the great missed opportunities in the history of science-fiction. If it had been as well circulated as H. G. Wells's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (to which it is superior in concept, if weaker in execution) science-fiction might have developed a generation earlier." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 446. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 174. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 26. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749, p. 231. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 55. Locke, Voyages in Space 51. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 221. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 121. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 133. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 79. Bleiler (1978), p. 46. Reginald 03168.
TAILSPIN: THE STRANGE CASE OF MAJOR CALL.
Latham, New York: British American Publishing Ltd., 2002. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the Conners. Introductory letter laid in. Non fiction book about concerning Major James A. Call and his role in the Sam Sheppard murder case.
MURDER ON THE LINE.
New York: Scribner's, 1963. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THE CASEBOOK OF SOLAR PONS.
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran: Publishers, 1965. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twelve stories with a foreword by Vincent Starrett and a monograph by Michael Harrison.