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THE MAN WITH TWO CLOCKS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery novel.
BREAD.
New York: Random House, [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. An 87th Precinct novel.
SF: '57: THE YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION AND FANTASY.
New York: The Gnome Press Inc., Publishers, [1957]. Octavo, original light red cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. Collects eighteen short stories by C. M. Kornbluth, Algis Budrys, Damon Knight, Isaac Asimov, J. G. Ballard, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-220.
THE MOON POOL.
New York: Liveright Publishing, n.d. (circa 1930's). Octavo, boards. Later edition. The author's first book.
DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE.
Providence, Rhode Island: The Grandon Company Publishers, [1950]. frontispiece by Virgil Finlay, Later edition. Lost race novel.
MEL OLIVER AND SPACE ROVER ON MARS.
[New York]: Gnome Press, Publishers, [1954]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. The author's first SF book. Young adult story involving in interplanetary circus.
MR. LAXWORTHY'S ADVENTURES.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1926]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-305 [306], original light brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Later edition. Collects twelve stories. Hubin, pp. 615-618. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 79.
THE SECRET OF THE CRATER (A MOUNTAIN MOLOCH)...
New York: Bookfinger, 1979. First edition. Text offset from that of the 1900 Putnam edition. A lost race novel of the discovery of descendants of ancient Carthaginians on an uncharted island northwest of Easter Island. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years 1731. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 611. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 170. Bleiler (1978), p. 152. Reginald 11045. Wright (III) 4045.
KILLING ORDERS.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1986. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The third in the V.I. Warshawski series.
SILENCE IN HANOVER CLOSE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery. "Perry has very cleverly portrayed British Victorian society with a sharp eye for its particular brand of social deceit. She is especially skilled at making the reader realize the almost unbelievable subjugation of women in those days..." - Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, The Aficionados Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp 626-627. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 832-834.
THE EARLY POHL.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Pohl. Collects eight stories first published between 1940 and 1944 and Pohl's first sale, a poem published in AMAZING STORIES in 1937, along with his autobiographical commentary on his early writing career and his friends, enemies and associates.
JEM.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "An overpopulated, under-resourced future Earth manages to send out star probes in search of planetary lebensraum. One such a world is found, the eponymous Jem, and colonization commences. A dark novel, amounting to a lengthy and rather bitter mediation on humanity's capacity to screw things up." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 195. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-861. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 396.
ELLERY QUEEN'S CHALLENGE TO THE READER: AN ANTHOLOGY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. First edition. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen.
ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue cover by William Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Ray Bradbury short story-his first in ASTOUNDING for the regular story section - "Doodad." It also includes an appearance in the PROBABILITY ZERO column (where his previous appearance was) with "And Watch the Fountains." Also includes Hal Clement, A. E. Van Vogt, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher) and C. L. Moore. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 60-103.
BADGE OF GLORY.
London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Hutchison, [1982]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First novel of the Royal Marines and the Blackwood family. Reeman also writes sea adventure fiction using Alexander Kent pseudonym.
ALYX.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first printing. Introduction by Samuel R. Delany. Collects the Alyx stories in one volume for the first time. It includes the novel PICNIC ON PARADISE and the novelette "The Second Inquisition," a 1970 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-936.
BELLARION THE FORTUNATE: A ROMANCE.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [1-3] 4-446, dust jacket painting by Harold Brett, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in orange, pictorial end papers, fore edge uncut, top edge stained orange. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction set in Italy during the time of the Renaissance with a number of the characters real historical figures.
THE GODMOTHER'S APPRENTICE.
New York: Ace Books, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fantasy. Sequel to THE GODMOTHER (1994).
A ROSE FOR ARMAGEDDON.
London, New York: Allison & Busby, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-970. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 414.
FAT FACE.
Seattle, Washington: The Axolotl Press, [1987]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 60 numbered leather bound copies signed by Shea and introducer Karl Edward Wagner. A Lovecraft homage the presents Shea's "lurid variation on ideas from 'At the Mountains of Madness.'" - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-327.
SKY BIRDS.
Springfield, MA: Magazine Publishers, Inc., 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by C.B. Mayshark, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Air stories.
SPELLS AND PHILTRES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1958. Octavo, jacket art by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First edition. 519 copies printed. Poetry.
TALES OF SCIENCE AND SORCERY.
Sauk City: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2482 copies printed. Collection of fourteen stories and a memoir by E. Hoffmann Price. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1488. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-205. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-182.
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GREY [GRAY] LENSMAN.
Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fourth book of the Lensman series. Most of the Lensman series was published in Astounding, this novel as a four-part serial in 1939 with Campbell as editor. "The greatest of the early golden age space opera... [this novel] best of series." – Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-355. The cover by Hulbert Rogers is one of the classic Golden Age paintings. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1051. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1183-87. In 333.
ODD JOHN: A STORY BETWEEN JEST AND EARNEST.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1935]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-282 + 8-page publisher's catalogue dated "835" at bottom of page 8 inserted at rear, original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in dark blue. First edition, first impression. 3096 copies printed, this copy with later form of inserted catalogue dated "835" on page 8. Stapledon's third novel. "... the most radically thoughtful of the many fictional extrapolations of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and one of the least comfortable in its conclusion. Above all it exposes the flimsiness of thinking that 'Superman' will always be on the side of the police, that evolution has stopped, or that from now on evolution will only take place nicely." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1583-87. "Although the narrative voices Stapledon's biases, it remains perhaps the finest early novel in which mankind is unable to accept and live with advanced mutations (supermen)." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 720. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-58; (1981) 2-99; (1987) 2-110; (1995) 2-120; and (2004) II-1070. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1152. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 205. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 206-09. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13558. Satty and Smith A6.1.1.1.