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IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1977. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Published in June 1977, same month as the U. K. edition published by Jonathan Cape. Psychological horror/mystery novel involving a ghost. "...this is a strong horror novel, subtle, complex, intense." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-353. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-287. Winter list, p. 271.
TALES OF WONDER.
Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by J. Nicolson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue, with an announcement as such on the front cover. Britain's first adult oriented science fiction magazine, at first publishing solely original material from British authors and reprints from U.S. magazines, and later adding new material from American authors. "Tales of Wonder was a lively, entertaining and enjoyable magazine..." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazine, pp. 652-654. The magazine had to cease publication due to wartime paper restrictions after sixteen issues. Fiction by Benson Herbert, Clark Ashton Smith, Miles J. Breuer, and Marion F. Eadie.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Prince of Evil" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
TEXAS BY THE TAIL.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal k1502. Paperback original.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Earthlight" by Arthur C. Clarke. Also fiction by Raymond F. Jones, Fredric Brown, William Tenn and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
SEMA-KANDA: THRESHOLD MEMORIES. A MYSTIC'S STORY.
Chicago: Purdy Publishing Co., 1898. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 8-254 [255-256: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., brown coated endpapers. First edition. Inscribed by Turnbull on a tipped in leaf. "Occult novel in four parts. The first and longest part is set in, and at the time of a degenerated Atlantis, before and during its complete destruction. Some members of a religious order of adepts accompany an ark on its voyage to Central America. The third part picks up this thread in the eighteenth century, with records from Atlantis in the possession of an Indian namesake of one of the Atlantean adepts." - Teitler and Locke (2013) 12-18. Not in Wright.
DIE BESTEN SF-STORIES.
[Rastatt]: Moewig Verlag KG. Octavo, pictorial boards. First German edition. Signed by Vance on the title page. German edition of THE WORLD OF JACK VANCE. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A44b.
THE ASUTRA.
[New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1974]:. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 3157. Paperback original. Signed by Vance on the title page. The third book in the Durdane series. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A45.
LYONESSE: THE GREEN PEARL.
San Francisco, CA; Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 numbered copies signed by Vance. The second volume in the Lyonesse series. The author's preferred text. Barron (ed.), Fantasy Literature 4A-257.
MASKE: THAERY.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1976]. Octavo, jacket art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. Science fiction novel set in the author's "Gaean Reach" universe. "Jubal Droad, a young and ambitious member of the scorned ""Glint"" population of Thaery on the planet Maske, bulldozes his way into the affairs of the ruling ""Theriot"" class--a chilly and devious set whose chosen manner, is an airily impersonal and endlessly ingenious rudeness. Seeking revenge on a noble Theriot who has wronged him, Jubal finds himself exploring an intrigue that threatens both Glints and Theriots." - Kirkus review, 1976. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A52.
SHOWBOAT WORLD.
New York: Pyramid, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid V3698. Paperback original. Signed by Vance on the title page. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A47.
STRANGE CASES: A SELECTIVE GUIDE TO SPECULATIVE MYSTERY FICTION.
Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, England: Libraries Unlimited, [2009]. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. Annotated guide of approximately 700 works of supernatural and speculative mysteries. Emphasis is on more current titles but classic titles are also included.
MURDER WILL OUT: NINE DEAD ENDS STORIES.
London: Faber and Faber, [1950]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second collection of stories about Scotland Yard's Department of Dead Ends, an imaginary department where the evidence from unsolved crimes is stored.
WEIRD TALES.
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1933. Octavo, single issue, cover art by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Murray Leinster, Arthur J. Burks, Seabury Quinn, Robert E. Howard ("The Scarlet Citadel" - the second Conan story), and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
WEIRD TALES.
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover art by M[argaret] Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Henry Kuttner, H. P. Lovecraft ("The Other Gods"), G. G. Pendarves, Clark Ashton Smith, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
WEIRD TALES.
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1948. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Lee Brown Coye, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by August Derleth, Ray Bradbury ("Fever Dream"), Dorothy Quick, Edmond Hamilton, Erik Frank Russell, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
WEIRD TALES.
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1950. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Bill Wayne, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreagh (pseudonym for Fred Pohl), Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Bloch, Carl Jacobi, Frank Owen, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
THE HOT ROCK.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1970]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Basis for the hilarious film starring Robert Redford as John Dortmunder the thief for which jobs never go as planned.
THE MERRIWEATHER FILE.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
WEST INDIA LIGHTS.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. Octavo, front cover illustration by Ronald Clyne, cloth. First edition. 3000 copies printed. The author's posthumously published second collection of weird fiction, preceded by JUMBEE AND OTHER UNCANNY TALES (1944). Twenty-five stories by Whitehead were published in WEIRD TALES between 1924 and 1933. "The stories are very well written, with an authenticity which accentuates the feeling of dread expectation." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 183. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1707. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-230. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-213.
P. MORAN, OPERATIVE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First British edition. Humorous stories with Pete Moran, correspondence school detective. Hubin, p. 862.
JUNIPER TIME ...
New York, Hagerstown, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1979]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "In a future America afflicted by terrible drought the heroine throws in her lot with an Amerindian tribe. Meanwhile, her friend attempts to revitalize the space program. A gently feminist tale of politics, ecology and alien encounters." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 198. A 1979 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1246. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 397.
THE MILE LONG SPACE SHIP.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1980. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF book. Text offset from the Berkeley paperback edition, new introduction by Susan Wood. Collects eleven stories published 1956-1963. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-799. Reginald 15333.
DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Case of the Talking Eyes" by Cornell Woolrich. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 168-170.
WORLDS OF FANTASY.
London: John Spencer & Co., [1952]. Small octavo, single issue, cover by Facey, pictorial wrappers. Fifth of fourteen published, paperback size magazine. Four SF stories. Harbottle and Holland p. 155. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 770-771.