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MACKILL'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
London: Todd Publishing Group, Ltd., 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The final issue. Well regarded mystery magazine which featured largely reprints featuring top-notch writers. The first few U.S. issues were U. K. issues with over printed U. S. prices, but that changed from April 1953 onwards (with printed printed price of .35). At that point the U.S. volume numbers did not match the date/volume numbers of the U.K. editions. This issue includes Sydney Horler, Margery Allingham, Peter Cheyney, and others. See Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 310-311.
THE PRISONER IN THE OPAL.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Formerly the Adrian Goldstone copy with his bookplate to front paste down. The third Hanaud novel. Mystery involving Devil worship.
DAMIA.
New York: Ace/Putnam, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Sequel to THE ROWAN.
THE MARK OF MERLIN.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia,PA: Brandywyne Books, 1984. Octavo, suede cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition. Trade edition. Romantic mystery thriller.
MORETA: DRAGONLADY OF PERN.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1983]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition.
THE HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1992]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page.
THE DEAD LINE.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Commander Shaw adventure novel.
GIRLS IN TROUBLE.
[New York]: A Midwood-Tower Publication, [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood 161. Paperback original.
THE SECRET ANATOMY.
[London]. Piatkus, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Horror novel. "...evil is represented by a secret society with totalizing ambitions." " ... this novel identifies metaphysical evil with facism: the worship of power." - Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 418-419.
CITY OF TRUTH ...
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century, [1990]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Satiric dystopian novella. "In the city of Veritas, every person is brutally conditioned to be not just unable to tell lies but obliged always to tell the whole truth, no matter how stark or droll..." - Kirkus review, 15 March, 1992. Nebula Award winner for best novella, 1993. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
MURDER.
New York: Flying Eagle Publications, Inc., 1956. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Frank Cozzarelli, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The first of only three issues published. Contemporary crime and murder stories. From the publishers of MANHUNT, another magazine that faced stiff competition in the marketplace and could not find a foothold. Author's include: Lionel White, Jack Ritchie, Ed Hoch and others. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 335-336.
NYCTALOPS.
Albuquerque, NM: Silver Scarab Press, May 1977. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Well-regarded amateur journal devoted to the study of weird fiction, especially the work of H. P. Lovecraft and members of the Lovecraft circle. This issue includes with articles on H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley and other material.
THE LILY HAND: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Heinemann, [1965]. Octavo, boards. First edition. With two signed inscriptions by Pargeter. The first inscription reads: "To Ellis / with best wishes / from Mary / 1965", most probably a presentation copy to the author's brother Edmund Ellis Pargeter with whom she lived with for 35 years of her adult life. Her brother and grandmother Emma Ellis is where the influence for first name for her pseudonym Ellis Peters. The second inscription reads: "For Sue, with / affectionate regards, / Edith, / August, 1991". This second inscription could well be to Sue Feder who founded the Ellis Peter's Appreciation Society. The author's second story collection, several appear to have fantastic elements to them. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 88. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 626.
THE WALKAWAY.
[Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan Publications], 2002. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 504 copies, this is one of 400 numbered cloth copies signed by Phillips. The author's second noir novel, it features the character Gunther Fahnstiel introduced in the author's first novel. This is basically a prequel.
SEARCH THE SKY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Pohl to Forrest J. Ackerman on front free end paper: "For 4e / With gratitude for / a fine time / Frederik Pohl."
THE ARTIFICIAL MOTHER: A MARITAL FANTASY by G. H. P. [pseudonym] ...
New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] 9 [10] 11-31 [32-36: blank] [note: first two and last two leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by A. W. van Deusen, title page printed in red and black, original pictorial olive green cloth, front panel stamped in white and brown, spine panel stamped in brown, all edges stained red. First edition. Humorous science fiction short story written, according to the author, in the 1869, describing the invention and operation of an android nurse. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 826. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 320. Bleiler (1978), p. 78. Not in Reginald. Wright (III) 4397.
SAN DIEGO LIGHTFOOT SUE AND OTHER STORIES ...
Kansas City, Missouri: Earthlight Publishers, [1979]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's posthumous second book and only collection of short fiction. Collects eleven stories, plus introduction by Harlan Ellison and reminiscence by Howard Waldrop. Includes the highly regarded horror stories "Twilla," "Beyond the Cleft," and "Insects in Amber," as well as "San Diego Lightfoot Sue," winner of the 1975 Nebula Award for best short story.
FOR MY COUNTRY'S FREEDOM.
London: Heinemann:, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Richard Bolitho sea adventure. Called back to duty in 1811.
THE INSHORE SQUADRON.
[London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, 1978]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Richard Bolitho sea adventure set in 1800.
LAZARUS # 7.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A leper commits several murders in an attempt to prevent the discovery of the affliction. Science fiction element is doctor's successful experiments to revive dead animals and, for a short time, one of the murder victims. "Sale also wrote LAZARUS # 7 (1942), set entirely in Hollywood, which is as light and fast as PASSING STRANGE (1942), and may be the only mystery novel featuring leprosy." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 705-06. Hubin (1994), p. 714. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2168.
DESTINY: A NEW THOUGHT NOVEL.
New York: Edward J. Clode, [1917]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii-x] 1-324 [325-326: ads], original blue-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. "A young woman has a series of occult experiences when she delves into New Thought." - Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 3179. Bleiler (1948), p. 248. Not in Bleiler (1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 S-321.
THIS KNOT OF LIFE ...
London: Everett & Co., n.d., [1909]. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-320 [note: first leaf is a blank], original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition, second binding with "Everett" at base of spine panel and no publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel. Edwardian romance. Morse, The Works of M. P. Shiel Updated (1980), pp. 170-71.
?DONDE DUERMES, ELDORADO? Y OTROS POEMAS por Clerigo Herrero [pseudonym].
[Glendale, California: Roy A. Squires], 1964. Small octavo, brown printed wrapper, sewn. First edition. Limited to 160 copies. Poetry.
THE VORTEX BLASTER.
Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, trade issue. Second binding of gray cloth with spine panel lettered in red. Not part of the Lensman series, but set in the same universe, with several Lensmen as characters.
THE STARS ARE THE STYX.
[New York]: A Dell Book, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 18006. Paperback original. Signed by Sturgeon on the title page. Collects ten stories.