Adventure Fiction
THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG.'
London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1920]. Octavo, original green boards, border stamped in blind to front, spine stamped in black. First printing of the "Cheap Edition." The author's first book. "... an exciting, powerful, scary book ... one of the most effective horror stories of the sea ..." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 143-45. "... one of the most distinctive and imaginative Gothic fantasies of the twentieth century." - Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 94-5. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1103. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 423. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 113. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 203-04. Tymn (ed) Horror Literature 3-103. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 101. Reginald 07277.
CAPTAIN GAULT: BEING THE EXCEEDINGLY PRIVATE LOG OF A SEA-CAPTAIN ...
London: Eveleigh Nash Company Limited, 1917. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-xi [xii] 13-303 [304: printer's imprint], original red cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black, rear panel 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.
THE EXPLOITS OF CAPTAIN GAULT: VOLUME TWO.
[Bristol, Rhode Island: Hobgoblin Press, 1993.]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Gathers six stories of nautical adventure, with an introduction and bibliographical appendix by the editor, Sam Gafford. The stories in this volume all appeared in LONDON MAGAZINE between 1915 and 1917.
BLACK VULMEA'S VENGEANCE & OTHER TALES OF PIRATES.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1976. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three novelettes, "Swords of the Red Brotherhood," first published here, "Black Vulmea's Vengeance", first published in Golden Fleece (1938) and "The Isle of Pirates' Doom," first published in 1975.
BLACK VULMEA'S VENGEANCE & OTHER TALES OF PIRATES.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1976. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three novelettes, "Swords of the Red Brotherhood," first published here, "Black Vulmea's Vengeance", first published in Golden Fleece (1938) and "The Isle of Pirates' Doom," first published in 1975.
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF DENNIS DORGAN.
West Linn, OR: FAX Collector's Editions, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories, all originally written for MAGIC CARPET and ORIENTAL STORIES pulp magazines, only one saw publication in the former, two others were printed posthumously in THE HOWARD COLLECTOR, the rest first published here.
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF DENNIS DORGAN.
[West Linn, OR]: FAX Collector's Editions, [1974]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories, all originally written for MAGIC CARPET and ORIENTAL STORIES pulp magazines, only one saw publication in the former, two others were printed posthumously in THE HOWARD COLLECTOR, the rest first published here.
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF DENNIS DORGAN.
[West Linn, OR]: FAX Collector's Editions, [1974]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories, all originally written for MAGIC CARPET and ORIENTAL STORIES pulp magazines, only one saw publication in the former, two others were printed posthumously in THE HOWARD COLLECTOR, the rest first published here.
THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF DENNIS DORGAN.
[West Linn, OR]: FAX Collector's Editions, [1974]. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories, all originally written for MAGIC CARPET and ORIENTAL STORIES pulp magazines, only one saw publication in the former, two others were printed posthumously in THE HOWARD COLLECTOR, the rest first published here.
THE IRON MAN AND OTHER TALES OF THE RING.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1976. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Preceded by the Zebra paperback edition. Collects three boxing stories and an article on boxing, "Men of Iron."
THE ROAD OF AZRAEL.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1979. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, cloth. First edition. Collects five Oriental tales.
THE ROAD OF AZRAEL.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1979. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, pictorial cloth. First edition. Collects five Oriental tales.
SON OF THE WHITE WOLF.
[West Linn, OR]: Published by FAX, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Marcus Boas, pictorial cloth. First edition. Three more Oriental tales featuring Irish-American and Texan adventurer Francis Xavier Gordon. The first volume of stories was THE LOST VALLEY ISKANDER.
SON OF THE WHITE WOLF.
[West Linn, OR]: Published by FAX, 1977. Octavo, illustrations by Marcus Boas, pictorial cloth. First edition. Three more Oriental tales featuring Irish-American and Texan adventurer Francis Xavier Gordon. The first volume of stories was THE LOST VALLEY ISKANDER.
THE SOWERS OF THE THUNDER.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1973. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription on the half title page by artist Roy Krenkel to Robert Briney. Adventure/fantasy stories set in the Far East, first published in pulp magazines The Magic Carpet Magazine and Oriental Stories.
THE SOWERS OF THE THUNDER.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1973. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, cloth. First edition. Adventure/fantasy stories set in the Far East, first published in the pulp magazines The Magic Carpet Magazine and Oriental Stories.
THE SOWERS OF THE THUNDER.
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1973. Octavo, illustrations by Roy Krenkel, cloth. First edition. Adventure/fantasy stories set in the Far East, first published in the pulp magazines The Magic Carpet Magazine and Oriental Stories.
TREASURES OF TARTARY AND OTHER HEROIC TALES...edited by Paul Herman.
[Holicong, PA]: Wildside Press, [2004]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five stories, "Treasures of the Tartary," "Son of the White Wolf," "Black Vulmea's Vengeance," "Boot Hill Payoff," and "The Vultures of Whapeton."
RED BLADES OF BLACK CATHAY.
West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant Publisher, 1971. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three short stories, plus a 3-page introduction, "How the Stories Came to Be," by Tevis Clyde Smith. "Red Blades of Black Cathay" was first published in ORIENTAL STORIES, February-March 1931. The two other pieces collected here, "Diogenes of Today" and "Eighttoes Makes a Play," are first published here.
THE RETURN OF SKULL FACE.
[West Linn, OR]: FAX Collector's Editions, [1977]. Octavo, illustrations by Stephen E. Leialoha. boards. First edition. Sequel to Skull Face, completed by Lupoff.
THE RETURN OF SKULL FACE.
[West Linn, OR]: FAX Collector's Editions, [1977]. Octavo, illustrations by Stephen E. Leialoha. boards. First edition. Sequel to Skull Face, completed by Lupoff.
THE RETURN OF SKULL FACE.
[West Linn, OR]: FAX Collector's Editions, [1977]. Octavo, illustrations by Stephen E. Leialoha. boards. First edition. Sequel to Skull Face, completed by Lupoff.
"YELLOW PERIL": THE ADVENTURES OF SIR JOHN WEYMOUTH-SMYTHE.
New York: Richard Marek, 1978. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Adventure novel in the pulp tradition.
CONAN CHRONICLES: CONAN THE INVINCIBLE, CONAN THE DEFENDER, CONAN THE UNCONQUERED.
New York: TOR, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First combined edition. Collects CONAN THE INVINCIBLE (1982), CONAN THE DEFENDER (1982), CONAN THE UNCONQUERED (1983).
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS: A STORY OF THE GRAND BANKS.
New York: The Century Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] 1-323 [324-326: blank], twenty-one plates with illustrations by L. W. Taber, original pictorial gray green cloth, front panel stamped in red, black and gold, spine panel stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in black, top edge gilt, other edges rough trimmed. First American edition. "Kipling's third attempt to write a long story was made during his residence in the United States, and the background for this novel centers around the deep-sea fishing industry of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The story first appeared in serial form in McCLURE'S MAGAZINE, November, 1896, to May, 1897, with twenty-five illustrations by I. W. Taber, and in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE, December, 1896, to April, 1897, with forty-one illustrations by I. W. Taber and Fred T. Jane ... The American edition, published by the Century Co., and the English, by Macmillan & Co., were both published in 1897. The texts differ from one another in a number of minor details." - Stewart, pp. 149-150. "The work has always been popular in the USA and various versions have been filmed." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 104. Stewart 164.