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STARTLING STORIES.
Springfield, MA: Better Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Jack Vance story "Men of the Ten Books," and a Captain Future story, "Earthman No More," by Edmond Hamilton, other fiction by Leigh Brackett, Margaret St. Clair, William F. Temple, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 611-617.
THE PHANTOM COACH AND OTHER GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY ... Edited, with an Introduction by Jessica Amanda Salmonson ...
[Uncasville, CT: Richard H. Fawcett, Publisher, 1998.]. First edition. Limited to 400 copies. A literary miscellany of stories and papers that includes two tales of the supernatural: "An Antiquary's Ghost Story" (first published in 1880) and "The Phantom Coach," plus several articles on supernatural phenomena: "The Dying Out of the Marvellous," "The Phenomena of Doubles," "Dreams," and "A Night of Waking," all first published in Jessopp's literary miscellany, FRIVOLA (1896).
THE COMING OF THE AMAZONS: A SATIRISTIC SPECULATION ON THE SCIENTIFIC FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION.
New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Johnson on the verso of the half title page. Novel of the future featuring a female dominated society. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-61.
THE LINGALA CODE.
New York: Random House, [1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller set in Africa of the 1960s; murder, C.I.A. and a mysterious woman. 1973 Edgar award winner for best novel (1972).
FULL DARK, NO STARS.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Scribner, [2010]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects "1922," "Big Driver," "Fair Extension," and "A Good Marriage," with afterword by King.
COURTSHIP RITE.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Kingsbury on the title page. Issued simultaneously in trade paperback and hardcover formats; only 2000 hardbound copies were prepared. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-602.
A FOR ANYTHING.
New York: Walker and Company, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. The complete text of THE PEOPLE MAKER (1959). "Problems with a matter-duplication device." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [1]. "Rigid, stratified, slave society as a result of a machine that can reproduce anything." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 279. "An uneasy adventure developed from the premise of a brilliant short story." - Brian Stableford.
EXIT A STAR.
Garden City, New York: Published For The Crime Club By Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
STRANGE ANGELS.
[New York]: Delacorte Press, [1994]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition.
CONFERENCE WITH THE DEAD: TALES OF SUPERNATURAL TERROR. Introduction by Ramsey Campbell.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The author's second collection of supernatural tales (and first in hardcover), preceded by UNDER THE CRUST (1993). Includes a vampire tale, "The Break." Introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-221.
THE EIGHT STROKES OF THE CLOCK...translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
New York: The McCaulay Company, [1922]. Octavo, pp. [1-14] 15-313 [314-316: blank], inserted frontispiece by G. W. Gage, original pictorial brown cloth, front and spine stamped in brown. First U. S. edition. Collects eight stories with Arsène Lupin, in which he solves various crimes in the guise of Prince Rénine, an apparent alter-ego, with the help of his companion (for these adventures) Hortense Daniel. "Undoubtedly, Maurice Leblanc's most important contribution to the mystery/detective genre was his cration of the extraordinary Arsène Lupin, the quintessential criminal-detective." Queen's Quorum 69. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Hubin, p. 490. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 65.
THE TREMENDOUS EVENT ... Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
New York: The Macaulay Company, [1922]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 13-316 [317-318: blank] [note: text complete in spite of gap in pagination; last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, original pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Translation of LE FORMIDABLE EVENEMENT (1920). Romantic adventure novel set after the ocean floor beneath the English Channel emerges and links Britain and France. During the chaos following the disaster bands of vicious criminals and looters roam the newly exposed land. "Wild, sensational, and incredible." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1299. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 135. Bleiler (1978), p. 120. Reginald 08758. Hubin (1994), p. 490.
A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1920]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-303 [304: printer's imprint]. + 8-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, front cover stamped in blind. First edition, first issue, first binding. 1250 copies printed of which this is one of 500 to 600 in the first issue binding. Lindsay's masterpiece. "A classic allegorical romance in which the landscapes and inhabitants of the planet Tormance provide an externalization of the moral and metaphysical questions that preoccupied the author. Its incarnate theological system influenced Lewis's OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (1938), and it also bears some similarity to George Macdonald's LILITH (1895), although it is very much a work sui generis." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-72. "VOYAGE ... has become one of the most widely discussed and debated fantasies of the twentieth century, and it is well on its way to becoming one of the most influential." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 2039-45. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-63 and (2004) II-673. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-221. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1019. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 31. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 509. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 140. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 693. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 666. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2383-88. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, p. 127. Bleiler (1978), p. 124. Reginald 09074.
SHADOW FOR A LADY.
London: T.V. Boardman, n.d. [1948]. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. Author's first mystery. P.I. novel set in L.A.
CHANNEL'S DESTINY.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Lorrah and Lichtenberg on the title page. A Sime/Gen novel.
THE DRUMS OF DRACULA.
New York: Pinnacle Books, [1974]. Small octavo, cover by J. Thompson, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Fifth in this series. Dracula is revived in the present day and is controlled by an implanted electronic device in his chest. He is used to combat evil.
H. P. LOVECRAFT: THE FANTASTIC POETRY. S. T. Joshi, editor.
[West Warwick, RI]: Necronomicon Press, [1990]. Octavo, illustrated by Jason Eckhardt, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition.
SOMETHING ABOUT CATS AND OTHER PIECES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1949. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Miscellaneous writings, poems, essays and stories that Lovecraft contributed to by other writers. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1047. Joshi I-A-25-a.
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE ... Preface by S. T. Joshi. Art by Divers Hands. The Illustrated Edition.
[Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Montilla Publications, 1992.]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. Later edition. Limited to 500 copies. A critical survey of horror fiction (emphasis on British and American literature) by the most important twentieth-century American supernatural fiction writer.
A CASE OF SPIRITS.
London: Macmillan, 1975. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Sgt. Cribb #6.
GHOUL WARNING AND OTHER OMENS.
[Heathfield, Fareham, Hants.]: Spectre Press, 1982. Octavo, stiff wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. The author's first book of poetry.
THE BRASS CUPCAKE.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #124. Paperback original. The author's first book, with a signed inscription by MacDonald. A hardboiled mystery.
THE DECEIVERS.
London: Robert Hale Limited, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Hubin, p. 526.
THE CAERLEON EDITION OF THE WORKS OF ARTHUR MACHEN...
London: Martin Secker, [1923]. Octavo, nine volumes, inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of Machen) in volume one, original sage-green cloth, front panels stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panels stamped in gold, rear panels ruled in blind, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. The Caerleon (first collected) edition. Limited to 1000 numbered sets signed by Machen. This is number 392. The works collected here are: THE GREAT GOD PAN (with "The Inmost Light" and "The Red Hand"); THE THREE IMPOSTORS; THE HILL OF DREAMS; THE SECRET GLORY; HIEROGLYPHICS; A FRAGMENT OF LIFE (with "The White People"); THE TERROR (with THE BOWMEN and THE GREAT RETURN); FAR OFF THINGS; and THINGS NEAR AND FAR.
THE HILL OF DREAMS.
N.p. [Horam, East Sussex]: Tartarus Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. Later edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. This novel, first published as a six-part serial in HORLICK'S MAGAZINE July - December 1904 under the title "The Garden of Avallaunius," was first published in book form in February 1907 as THE HILL OF DREAMS. "The ultimate novel of escapism, obviously deeply felt and written with considerable artistry." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-229. The Tartarus edition adds two illustrations by Sime intended for the book but not included, two introductions by Arthur Machen written for later editions (one previously unpublished), an introduction for a later edition by Lord Dunsany, and a new introduction by Mark Valentine. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 124-25. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1073. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 147. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 278. Bleiler (1978), p. 130. Reginald 09462.