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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Spy thriller with Blackford Oakes.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., pp. [1-8] [1] 2-293 [294-296: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated green...

New York: Novel Selections, Inc., [1945]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Detective Novel Classic No. 40. Digest sized format. This is an abridged edition. In the 1940s after splitting with Curl, Hillman...

New York: Del Rey, 1985. Octavo, quarter cloth spine and paper over boards, spine stamped in blue. First edition. Volume II of The Histories of King Kelson. [Reference: See Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-155]...

New York: Ballantine Books, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "...recounts the meeting of an isolated human colony on a remote planet with one of the last spaceships to leave a doomed Earth, and...

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1994. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Gideon Oliver.

Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd, [1943]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-942. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2075-78. In 333].

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, dark blue cloth. First edition, later binding. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.

New York: Scribner's, 1949. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

New York: Tor, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Fantasy novel, the third book in Mistborn series.

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi [1] 2-274 [275-280: ads], sixteen inserted plates (reproducing portraits of various authors), original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom...

New York: A Del Rey Book / Ballantine Books, [1994]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The first book of the first four volume series of an alternate history in which an alien invasion takes...

New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1982]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Kingsbury to his editor "without whom / Donald Kingsbury / would be impossible."...

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Hannes Bok, cloth. First edition. Sequel to MAN OF MANY MINDS. Mind reading futuristic secret agent.

[London: Hutchinson and Company (Publishers) Ltd, 1972]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A Richard Bolitho sea adventure set in 1778.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Review slip laid in. Young adult fantasy novel in the Tolkien tradition.

Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Robert Silverberg (introduction) and Frederik Pohl (afterword). Collects the sixteen short stories from BYPASS TO OTHERNESS (Ballantine, 1961)...

Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1974]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Crime novel involving the heroin trade.

New York: Putnam, 1992. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. hardcover edition. One of 800 numbered copies signed by Koontz.

New York: Walker and Company, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. A Dr. Palfrey adventure. The Dr. Palfrey stories are "...enjoyable if a little sensational. The later development of the Palfrey series into the science...

New York: Tor, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Sequel to PORTS OF CALL. Part of the "Gaean Reach" series, set in the same universe as THE NIGHT LAMP. [Reference: Not in Hewett and Mallett, The...

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Bradbury to a well known fan, dated 3/29/89. Collects twenty-three stories, his first collection since 1980.

New York: Random House, [2008]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Berenson on the title page. The author's first spy thriller and the debut of his character John Wells. Edgar award winner for best first...

London: Headline, 1995. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. This edition was released in October of 1995, some months prior to the U.S. edition.

Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Heinlein. Collects the stories; "Gulf," "Elsewhen," "Lost Legacy," and "Jerry Was a Man."

London, Sydney, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Toronto: Touchstone [Simon & Schuster Ltd], [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Priest. Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award for best novel. Filmed...

New York: Walker, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.

New York: Avon Books, 1996. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Advance reading copy (uncorrected proof). "McAuley posits a twenty-first century in which half of Europe has become rich through nanotechnology and the creation of...

[Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2015]. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Jason Eckhardt and David Ho (artists). Facsimile signature of Herbert. This is copy number 1. Sequel...

New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1948]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-262 [263-264: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original gray boards, front and spine panels stamped in green, top edge stained yellow...

New York: The Macmillan Co., 1967. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Block on the title page. The author's first hardcover.

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1937. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Feature serial by Martin McCall (house pseudonym) with "Kingdom Come," a dystopian warning novel. A fifth...

[Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects seven stories from TERROR TALES, SPICY ADVENTURE STORIES, MARVEL TALES and other pulps by Wayne Robbins, Richard Tooker, Lew Merrill...

London: Dennis Dobson, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Fix up novel from two stories first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories; "Abercrombie Station" and "Cholwell's Chickens." [Reference: Hewett and Mallett, The Work...

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, U.S. issue (UK sheets). Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). [Reference: Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21...

N.p. [Netherlands]. n.d., [c. 1943]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8], stiff pictorial card covers. Anti-Semitic propaganda. Witbaard (White Beard), the King of Kabouterland [Gnome country] arrests Joris, the cheese thief, a large mouse with a big...