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AN EVIL GUEST.
New York: TOR, [2008]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance bound manuscript (proof). Horror novel with noirish mystery elements with a dash of Lovecraft.
CASTLEVIEW.
New York: TOR, [1990]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. Dark fantasy set in present day Castleview, IL, involving a ghostly castle, which once belonged to Morgan le Fay. Good versus evil and the Arthurian legend come into play.
CASTLE OF DAYS.
[New York]: TOR, [1992]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. Miscellany of fiction and nonfiction including the contents of two earlier books, GENE WOLFE'S BOOK OF DAYS (1981) and THE CASTLE OF THE OTTER (1983), and other material.
[THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN]. NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN, THE LAKE OF THE LONG SUN, CALDÉ OF THE LONG SUN AND EXODUS FROM THE LONG SUN.
New York: Tor, [1993-1996]. Octavo, four volumes, boards. First edition. All signed by Wolfe on the title page. All four volumes of The Book of the Long Sun. Of the first book, NIGHTSIDE OF THE LONG SUN: "The first installment in another multivolume, far-future saga (like Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun tetralogy, 1980-87), set inside...well, something—a supercolossal spaceship? a ringworld? a Dyson sphere?—that has its own sun, seasons, and a land surface that curves up in the distance to form the sky..." and "A typically unsettling, utterly mysterious blend of sacrifice, spies, exorcism, cyborgs, ghosts, androids, robots, genetic engineering, gods, computers, and what-all. The clever plotting, solid characters, and intriguing backdrop..." - Kirkus Review, 15 February, 1993. Locus Award winner and a Nebula Award nominee, 1994. Of LAKE OF THE LONG SUN: "Second in Wolfe's far-future saga in which religious-political upheavals are shaking a city located inside a super-colossal spaceship. - Kirkus Review, 15 November, 1993. The third volume, CALDÉ OF THE LONG SUN was a Nebula Award nominee. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #36.
FREE LIVE FREE.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. trade edition. Text differs from that of the 1984 Ziesing edition. 1986 Nebula nominee.
FREE LIVE FREE.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First U.S. trade edition. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. Text differs from that of the 1984 Ziesing edition. 1986 Nebula nominee.
IN GREEN'S JUNGLES.
New York: Tor, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Wolfe on the title page. The second volume of "The Book of the Short Sun."
JULIUS LE VALLON: AN EPISODE.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1916. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-354 [355-356: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original green cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First U. S. edition. Occult novel of reincarnation and the repeated attempt of magicians to channel elemental forces. "In largeness of scope and detail of development Blackwood's most ambitious novel. It ranks high in its field." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 187. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-36. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 817-21. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01393. Ashley A.14.3.
SHOCKS.
London: Grayson & Grayson, [1935]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-8] 9-300 [301-302: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained green. First edition. Collects fifteen stories. The last collection of new material published in Blackwood's lifetime. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 197. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 216. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-36. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01403. Ashley A.41.1.
TONGUES OF FIRE AND OTHER SKETCHES ...
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, MCMXXIV (1924). Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-311 [312: blank] [313-320: ads], original pictorial yellow-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. Collects twenty stories and a sketch. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 192. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 215. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-40. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01410. Ashley A.23.1.
THE WOLVES OF GOD AND OTHER FEY STORIES...
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1921]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-328, original decorated tan cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects fifteen supernatural stories written by Blackwood, all but one expanded from story ideas by Wilson (the original Swede in "The Willows"), including the classic tales "Running Wolf," "The Decoy," and "The Empty Sleeve." Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Supernatural Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 201. Bleiler (1978), p. 25. Reginald 01412. Ashley A.20.1 (binding variant 1).
DAY AND NIGHT STORIES.
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Ltd, [1917]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-332, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Collects fifteen supernatural stories including the excellent "The Other Wing" and "A Victim of Higher Space," the last John Silence story. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 189. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 214. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 34. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-28. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01379. Ashley A.16.2.
PAN'S GARDEN: A VOLUME OF NATURE STORIES ...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] xi [xii] [1-2] 3-530 [531: tail piece] [532: printer's imprint] [533-536: ads] + 8-page undated publisher's catalogue headed "NEW / MACMILLAN / FICTION" inserted at rear, illustrated with drawings by W. Graham Robertson, original pictorial olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and black. First edition. Collection of short fiction including, "The Man Whom the Trees Loved," perhaps Blackwood's most effective short story. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 182. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-35. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01396. Ashley A.9.1.
THE LISTENER: AND OTHER STORIES.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-350 [351-352: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original black cloth, front stamped in blind and red, spine stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear cover. First edition. This book is found with and without publisher's catalogues inserted at rear, this copy bound without a catalogue. Blackwood's second book and his second collection of short fiction, containing "The Willows," one of the most powerful of all supernatural tales; "The Woman's Ghost Story," an early instance of pity replacing fear in a ghostly encounter; "Max Hensig...", about a confrontation with a diabolical murderer in which alcohol plays a quasi-mystical role; and six other stories. See Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #176.
THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1906. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv] [1] 2-316 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "Autumn 1906" inserted at rear, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in black, red and white, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The author's first book. Collects ten stories. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-26. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 175. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1442-43. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-30. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01383. Ashley A.1.1.
THE DEATH-MASK AND OTHER GHOSTS.
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-321 [322-324: ads], original red boards, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. The author's only collection of supernatural fiction. "In his famous essay 'Some Remarks on Ghost Stories' (Bookman Christmas Number, 1929), M. R. James devoted one paragraph to recent collections, beginning with A. M. Burrage's SOME GHOST STORIES and H. R. Wakefield's THEY RETURN AT EVENING. 'Going back a few year's I light on Mrs. Everett's THE DEATH-MASK, of a rather quieter tone on the whole, but with some excellently conceived stories,' he wrote, before briefly mentioning the tales of Robert Hugh Benson - 'too ecclesiastical' - and the 'rather over-technically '"occult"' adventures of Flaxman Low by Kate & Hesketh Prichard and John Silence by Algernon Blackwood. In retrospect, Mrs. H. D. Everett's collection has become a much rarer volume than any of the contemporary titles listed by MRJ, and very few copies are known to exist today. Unlike Burrage and Wakefield, her tales are much closer in style (although several are set in the First World War, and quite modern in context) to the great 19th century women writers of ghost stories, notably Mary E. Braddon, Amelia B. Edwards, Rhoda Broughton, and Mrs. J. H. Riddell... These fourteen original ghost stories were enthusiastically received by readers and critics alike ... THE DEATH-MASK was the first in a long line of supernatural collections published by Philip Allan. Its initial success must have encouraged him to issue THE PURPLE SAPPHIRE by 'Christopher Blayre' [Edward Heron-Allen] in 1921... and many more for the same company ... When Philip Allan inaugurated his 'Creeps' series in 1932, he revived two of Mrs. Everett's best stories - 'THE DEATH-MASK' in SHIVERS, and 'The Crimson Blind' in SHUDDERS -- both were reprinted in the 'Creeps' Omnibus three years later." - Richard Dalby. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, 76. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 615. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 286. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, pp. 194-95. Bleiler (1978), p. 69. Reginald 04972.
ALL ABOUT THE FUTURE ...
New York: Gnome Press Inc. Publishers, [1955]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects seven stories by Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, Theodore Sturgeon, Frederik Pohl, Malcolm Jameson, Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Edward Wellen, with introductions by Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
THE ROBOT AND THE MAN ...
New York: The Gnome Press Incorporated Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects ten stories by John D. MacDonald, Lewis Padgett, H. H. Holmes (Anthony Boucher), A. E. van Vogt, Lester del Rey, and others. Includes "Robots Return" by Robert Moore Williams, "a parable of machine evolution whose robot protagonists, visiting from their home on Mars, cannot believe that flesh creatures could have created them back on Earth ..." - SFE (online).
WEIRD TALES.
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Richard Bennett, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury ("The Candle" - his first appearance in Weird Tales), Fritz Leiber, Hannes Bok, H. P. Lovecraft ("Herbert West-Reanimator" - part 4) and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
WEIRD TALES.
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. Field," and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
WEIRD TALES.
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Margaret Brundage, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Z[ealia] B. Bishop ("The Mound" with an uncredited H. P. Lovecraft), Dorothy Quick, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
WEIRD TALES.
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Hannes Bok, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Manly Wade Wellman, Seabury Quinn, August Derleth, H. P. Lovecraft (verse), and others. This is the last issue with Farnsworth Wright as Editor. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.
WEIRD TALES.
New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Virgil Finlay, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by H. P. Lovecraft ("The Quest of Iranon"), Manly Wade Wellman, Seabury Quinn, August Derleth, Edmond Hamilton, Robert E. Howard (verse) 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 A. R. Tilburne, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert Bloch, Paul Ernst, Seabury Quinn, H. P. Lovecraft ("The Nameless City"), Robert E. Howard (verse), 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 A. R. Tilburne, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Robert Bloch, Paul Ernst, Seabury Quinn, H. P. Lovecraft ("The Nameless City"), Robert E. Howard (verse), and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 727-736.