Anthology
NIGHT VISIONS 1.
Niles: Dark Harvest, 1984. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology with stories from Charles L. Grant, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Tanith Lee.
URBAN HORRORS.
Arlington Hgts, IL: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
URBAN HORRORS.
Arlington Hgts, IL: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the editors, artist Robert W. Lavoie, and some of the contributors, including Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. Story collection featuring Bradbury, Matheson, Leiber, Dick, Beaumont, etc.
THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES: STORIES IN HONOR OF RAY BRADBURY.
[New York]: Roc, [1991]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Mostly original anthology collecting twenty-two stories utilizing Bradbury's fictional settings by Richard Matheson, Chad Oliver, Charles Beaumont, Gregory Benford, F. Paul Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Orson Scott Card, and others.
URBAN HORRORS ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Number 8 of 500 numbered copies signed by the editors, artist Robert W. Lavoie, and some of the contributors, including Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. Collects eighteen stories by Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, William F. Nolan, Dennis Etchison, Richard Christian Matheson, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.
URBAN HORRORS ...
Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the editors, artist Robert W. Lavoie, and some of the contributors, including Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. Collects eighteen stories by Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Ramsey Campbell, William F. Nolan, Dennis Etchison, Richard Christian Matheson, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.
SPACE SERVICE.
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, [1953]. Octavo, cover art by Virgil Finlay, cloth. First edition. Collects ten stories by Bernard I. Kahn, H.B. Fyfe, Walt Sheldon, Theodore R. Cogswell, Gordon R. Dickson, J. A. Winter, Raymond Z. Gallun and C.M. Kornbluth.
POST MORTEM: NEW TALES OF GHOSTLY HORROR.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting seventeen ghost stories by Charles de Lint, Thomas Tessier, Charles L. Grant, Ramsey Campbell, Robert R. McCammon and others, with afterword by Dean R. Koontz.
POST MORTEM: NEW TALES OF GHOSTLY HORROR.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Octavo, boards. First edition. 17 original ghost stories. R. Campbell, C.L. Grant, Robert McCammon, etc.
NAMELESS PLACES.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, jacket illustration by Tim Kirk, cloth. First edition. Anthology of original stories, some Lovecraftian. Authors include Thomas Burnett Swann, Robert Aickman, Stephen Goldin, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, E. Hoffman Price and others. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-288.
A WOMAN'S EYE.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Original collection of stories by the best women crime writers. 21 stories, including a Kinsey Millhone story by Sue Grafton. Review material laid in.
WHODUNIT? HOUDINI?: THIRTEEN TALES OF MAGIC, MURDER, MYSTERY.
New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 2.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Second volume in this original anthology series. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3- 222.
STAR SHORT NOVELS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine 89. Original anthology that collects three short novels by Jessamyn West, Lester del Rey and Theodore Sturgeon.
BEYOND THE END OF TIME.
Garden City: Permabooks, [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabooks P145. Collects nineteen stories by John D. MacDonald, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury, Jack Finney, Arthur C. Clarke, and others.
THE SCIENCE FICTION ROLL OF HONOR.
New York: Random House, [1975]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects sixteen stories and essays by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, and others.
SHADOW OF TOMORROW: 17 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
Garden City: Permabooks, [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabooks P236. Collects seventeen stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, John Wyndham, C. M. Kornbluth, and others.
STAR OF STARS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ballantine Books U2171. Collects fourteen stories selected from the Ballantine Star Science Fiction Stories series by C. M. Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Kuttner, and others. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-222.
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 2.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 55. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. Includes Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life," a story Bleiler (1983) terms "a modern classic." Also, "The Purple Fields," Robert Crane's first published story, a tale of a post-World War III future in which the United States is an authoritarian dystopia controlled by the "Program." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1319.
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 5.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1959]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 308K. Fifth of the six volumes in this pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects nine stories by Richard Matheson, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Daniel F. Galouye, and others. There was no hardcover issue of this volume in the series. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398.
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 16. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fifteen stories by C. M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1318.
CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1950s.
[New York]: The Library of America, [1997]. Octavo, cloth. First edition of this collection. Collects THE KILLER INSIDE ME by Jim Thompson, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY by Patricia Highsmith, PICK-UP by Charles Willeford, DOWN THERE by David Goodis and THE REAL COOL KILLERS by Chester Himes.
THE FROZEN PLANET AND OTHER STORIES.
[New York]: A Macfadden-Bartell Book, [1966]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Macfadden Books 60-229. Paperback original. Collect of five novellas from IF magazine. Keith Laumer, F.L. Wallace, Allen Kim Lang, Daniel Keyes and Clifford D. Simak.
THE COMFORTABLE COFFIN.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Collection of stories from the Mystery Writers of America. Includes a Jack Finney story.
WITCHES THREE.
New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., [1952]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, first binding with decorations and lettering stamped in gold on front and spine panels. This copy is signed by author's Leiber, Blish and Pratt on the title page, as well as John Ciardi who wrote the introduction. Partially original anthology, anonymously edited by Pratt, collecting three short novels, "Conjure Wife" by Fritz Leiber, "There Shall Be No Darkness" by James Blish, and "The Blue Star" by Fletcher Pratt. It is the first book publication of the first two, and the last (Pratt's) is original to the collection. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1727. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-125 (Leiber). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-305 and 4A-211 (Pratt). Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 634 (Leiber) and 918 (Pratt).