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[New York]: Delacorte Press, [1990]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance reading copy. Special A.B.A. edition (American Bookseller Association) giveaway. Made into a feature film.
[New York]: Delacorte Press, [1990]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance reading copy. Special A.B.A. edition (American Bookseller Association) giveaway. Made into a feature film.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Science Fantasy novel set in the future using Egyptian deities as characters. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-278. See Anatomy of Wonder...
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Author's second mystery novel. Political thriller set in Africa concerning an election, each candidate backed by a different faction - none...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982. Octavo, boards. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Disch on the title page to British poet Gavin Ewart (1916-1995). Ewart was a poet, editor and critic and had...
SF, California, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. A novel set on Big Planet. "Rivalry between actor-managers on the river-boats...
New York: Abelard Schuman, 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first hardcover mystery. [Reference: Hubin, p. 179].
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman. An Amos Walker novel. Winner of the PWA Shamus award for best novel. "Plenty of action and solid writing in the Chandler tradition...
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects six stories with a long introduction by with notes by John Bell.
London, England and Sauk City, Wisconsin: Published in London by Villiers Publications Ltd. for August Derleth, Place of Hawks, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1960-1963. Octavo, cloth. First edition. All published. Poetry magazine. One of 170 sets...
London: Macmillan, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-19. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 90].
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Walter Popp, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by John Christopher, Wallace West, Chad Oliver and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and...
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1984]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed on the title page by Butler. "A returning spaceship bears an alien disease back to Earth. But this is not a standard...
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Alex Schomburg, cloth. Later, fourth printing. The adventures of a young space pilot competing in the eighteenth Armstrong Classic, an interplanetary rocket race...
London: Metheun & Co. Ltd, 1918. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Third in the Tarzan series.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1859. 12mo, pp. [i-v] vi [7] 8-472 [note: first leaf is a blank] 1-8: ads, flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated green cloth, front and rear...
New York: Doubleday, 1988. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy. "Boys born in post-holocaust women's towns are delivered to their warrior fathers for military training at the age of five; at 15 they must choose...
[London: Atlas Publishing & Distributing, Co. Ltd.], 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue of the U.K. run which lasted beyond the U.S. run of issues. Includes Robert A. Heinlein, L....
New York: Avon Books, [1991]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's second horror novel. Young gay leukemia patient in chemotherapy chooses to become a vampire.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-312 [313-320: ads], original orange cloth, front, spine and rear stamped in black. First edition. "Probably Ryan's best horror thriller; heroine trapped in isolated mansion, evil psychologist...
Boston: Gregg Press, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. The first book by the author, written when he was 19. Published by Gollancz and 1937 and long out of print until a U.K. re-issue in...
[London]: Fontana, [1974]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's third story collection. Collects seven stories, the title story was used as part of the film From Beyond the Grave (1974). [Reference...
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. A Willa Jansson mystery. Nominated for an Edgar award.
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1933. Octavo, single issue, cover art by J. Allen St. John, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Donald Wandrei, Hugh Cave, Maurice Level, Clark Ashton Smith, and others...
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1986. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 200 numbered copies signed by Vance. Eight previously uncollected stories, the earliest first published in 1951. James Keith, the augmented agent, is...
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1988. Octavo, boards. First edition. Rescue Teams, a pair of human clones genetically engineered to work in alien environments, are sent to find human Pioneers on other worlds to repopulate a....
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover by Henry F. Kroeger, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Robert Bloch, Ralph Milne Farley, and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird...
Berlin: August Scherl G.m.b.H., [1928]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-210 [211-212] [213-216: ads], eight inserted plates with sixteen film stills, original decorated green cloth, front panel stamped in gold, spine panel stamped in brown and gold...
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Garton and artists Bob Eggleton and Arnie Fenner.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Victorian setting.
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition, trade issue, first binding. Science fiction novel with mystery elements; who is destroying moon rockets?
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1970]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects THE CRACK IN SPACE (1966), an overpopulation dystopia, THE UNTELEPORTED MAN (1966), an authoritarian dystopia, and DR. FUTURITY (1960), time travel, all first published here...
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1987]. Octavo, full leather, a.e.g. Later edition. New introduction by Alfred Bester. Stapledon's third novel. "... the most radically thoughtful of the many fictional extrapolations of ON THE ORIGIN OF...
New York: Crown, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Fourth novel in the "Earth's Children" series.
Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover art by C. C. Senf, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Seabury Quinn, Edmond Hamilton, Murray Leinster, August Derleth, Frank Belknap Long, Robert...
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1972. Octavo, boards. First U.S. hardcover edition. Inscribed and signed by MacDonald on the title page. The sixth Travis McGee novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 526].
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Margaret Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert Bloch, Dorothy Quick, Nelson S. Bond, Manly Wade Wellman writing as "Gans T....
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