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ERIC OF THE STRONG HEART ...
London: John Long, Limited, [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-254 [255: ads] [256: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black. Second edition. A lost race novel, first published as a five-part serial in weekly installments of RAILROAD MAN'S MAGAZINE, 16 November 1918–15 January 1919, set on Rangarok, a warm polar island inhabited by two lost races of European origin and the Trolls, aboriginal pygmies who control delusional magic. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 653. See Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 663. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 77. Bleiler (1978), p. 67. Reginald 12504.
JACQUELINE OF GOLDEN RIVER.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-248 [249: publisher's colophon] [250: blank], frontispiece by Ralph Pallen Coleman, original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Adventure novel, with murder and crime, concerning a gold claim in the wilderness of northern Quebec. Touch of Indian superstition, but not fantasy fiction. First published as a 6-part serial in the New York Evening World, beginning 23 August 1915. Not in Hubin (1994). See Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-162.
THE MASTER OF MURDER.
London: Philip Allan, [1933]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-6] 7-198 [199-204: ads] [205-206: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, spine panel stamped in black. First British edition. A revised version of MYSTERIOUS MARTIN ... (Ogilvie 1912), the author's first book. A macabre tale of an insane novelist who causes and commits murders to depict in his writings. The tale was revised and collected in SILENT, WHITE AND BEAUTIFUL AND OTHER STORIES (1920) as "For Art's Sake" and published with further revisions as a separate book by Philip Allan in 1933 as THE MASTER OF MURDER. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 183. Bleiler (1978), p. 167 (citing the Allan edition). Hubin (1994), p. 685.
MEN OF THE DEEP WATERS ...
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1914. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-11 [12] 13-303 [304: printer's imprint] [305-306: ads], original red cloth, front cover stamped in black with blind stamped border, spine stamped in black. First edition. Second binding of red cloth lettered in black. Collects two poems and ten short stories of the sea including "The Voice in the Night," Hodgson's most famous horror story. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 94-5. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 820. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1108. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 114. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-109. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 203-04. See Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-90. Bleiler (1978), p. 101. Reginald 07286.
CAPTAIN GAULT: BEING THE EXCEEDINGLY PRIVATE LOG OF A SEA-CAPTAIN ...
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1918. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-295 [296: blank], original green cloth, front and spine stamped in blind. First edition. Collects ten short stories of mystery, crime and detection with nautical background and two poems. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 55. Hubin (1994), p. 407.
A COLUMBUS OF SPACE.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii-x] 1-297 [298],four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath, original pictorial light green cloth, front panel stamped in black, dark green and white, spine panel stamped in white and black. First edition. Interplanetary adventure novel of travel by atomic powered spaceship to Venus inhabited by people and monsters. A minor science fiction classic combining high adventure in the Haggard tradition with the science fantasy of Wells and Verne. First published in ALL-STORY MAGAZINE in 1909, the novel was revised for book publication. Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years #1997.
THE SECOND DELUGE.
New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-399 [400-402: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], four inserted plates with illustrations by George Varian, original green cloth, front panel stamped in white and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in white. First edition. The author's best novel and one of the best early treatments of the natural catastrophe theme. "... in American science fiction, the catastrophe motif did not assume its fully developed form until the publication of Garrett P. Serviss's The Second Deluge..." - Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 303-06. "One of Serviss's better stories. Heavily in the tradition of Jules Verne, it is vividly imagined, and if there are occasional concessions to pulp simplistics, they are not offensive." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1999. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-136; (1981) 1-149; (1987) 1-83; (1995) 1-83; and (2004) II-979. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 682. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 42. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 192. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12903.
IN THE SHADOW.
London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-184, original black cloth, spine stamped in orange. First edition. Signed inscription by Robbins dated in 1932. A novel about death and dying. "Funereal novel, an extended memento mori examining conflicting emotions of family members as they take successive turns at a death-watch through the night. A sombre book that effectively captures the emotional pain of grief and loss." – Robert Knowlton. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 154. Hubin (1994), p. 685.
THE AIR TRUST.
St. Louis, Mo. Published by Phil Wagner, [1915]. pp. [1-15] 16-333 [334-336: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], six inserted plates with illustrations by John Sloan, original green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel ruled in blind. First edition. Anti-trust novel wherein financiers gain control of a device to extract oxygen from the air and hold humanity at their mercy. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-72 and (2004) II-382. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 675. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 282. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 78. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 157. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04902. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-191. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1095. Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 294.
MRS. ALADDIN... Second Edition.
London: John Long, Limited, n.d., [1925]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-254 [255-256: ads], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. Second printing. "Humorous fantasy introducing a dijinn into the lives of modern people and exploring the consequences." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 77. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 605. Bleiler (1978), p. 67. Reginald 12505.
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT: A ROMANCE OF THE AIR AND OF SCIENCE.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1924. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [i-iv] v [vi] [1-2] 3-414 [415-420: blank] [note: first three and last three leaves are blanks], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in yellow. First edition. Issued later in Britain as ULTIMATUM and reprinted as a serial in AIR WONDER in 1929. "The League of the Covenant uses secret weapons and airships to force peace on the world." - Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. "A classic of its day." - Tuck (1978), p. 287. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1389. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 523. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 237. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 148. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 146. Bleiler (1978), p. 129. Reginald 09417A.
GREY FACE.
New York: A. L. Burt Publishers, n.d., [192-]. Octavo, cloth. Reprint. Signed inscription by Rohmer on a tipped in leaf after the front free end paper. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #1411. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years #1908. See Barron (ed): Horror Literature 3-168.
THE MESSIAH OF THE CYLINDER.
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1917. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-319 [320-322: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], eleven inserted plates, several double page, with black and white illustrations by Joseph Clement Coll, original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Protagonist awakens in a grim world of the future dominated by socialism and science and learns that legend has made him a kind of messiah. He leads a successful revolt against the establishment. The story, first published in EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE as a four-part serial, June-September 1917, is one of the earliest American dystopian novels. "A more considerable work than is generally recognized, despite the pulp adventure aspects. One can find among the author's ultraconservative values such Orwellian anticipations as omnipresent slogans, euphemistic terms for horrible institutions, the artificial language Spikisi, the mechanics of thought control, and the apparatus of the police state. While the book is a deutero-WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES, it is independent in detail, and much Rousseau's best work." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1922. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-131; (1981) 1-143; and (2004) II-927. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 662. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 46. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 147. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 186. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 315. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 160. Bleiler (1978), p. 171. Reginald 12502. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-163.
MAKE MINE A HARLOT.
Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England / Cleveland, OH: Archer Press, Ltd. distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kaywin Publishers, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. edition. Hard boiled crime novel with P. I. Nick Cranley, set in Chicago. Hubin, p. 777.
THE LISPING MAN.
New York: Hercules Publishing Corp. [1944]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. This is based on the short novel "Calling the Ghost" in the pulp magazine THE GHOST, SUPER DETECTIVE (January, 1940) which was the first appearance of the Ghost, magician detective George Chance. In the book versions revised by Fleming-Roberts the hero pulp trappings were abandoned with George Chance just being a magician with the detecting as a hobby. First published in hardcover with the revisions by Gateway in 1942, it was revised again for this paperback publication. The author was reportedly not happy with either and used a pseudonym.
THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION OF ISAAC ASIMOV.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects twenty eight stories selected by the author with a brief introduction to each.
THE BEST MYSTERIES OF ISAAC ASIMOV.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects thirty-one mystery stories the author considers his best, including seven tales not previously collected.
FLASHMAN ON THE MARCH...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Octavo, boards. First edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The twelth and final volume in the series.
FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eleventh volume in the Flashman series. Collects three tales, the last "Flashman and the Tiger," features an appearance by Sherlock Holmes.
FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The tenth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman returns to America before the Civil War and becomes involved with John Brown.
FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The ninth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in India during the time of the First Sikh war.
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The eighth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in China.
FLASHMAN AND THE REDSKINS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The seventh volume in the Flashman series. Told in two parts Flashman travels to America and is involved with Apaches in part one and George Armstrong Custer in part two.
FLASHMAN'S LADY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Octavo, cloth backed boards. 2nd printing of the U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The sixth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman travels to the Far East and his wife is abducted.
FLASHMAN IN THE GREAT GAME.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U. S. edition. Historical fiction mostly set around historical events. The fifth volume in the Flashman series. Flashman in India.