Anthology
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.
WORLD OF WONDER: AN INTRODUCTION TO IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE...
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1951]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nineteen stories by H. Beam Piper, William Tenn, Rudyard Kipling, Fredric Brown, James Blish, Robert A. Heinlein, Franz Kafka, Gouverneur Morris, Ray Bradbury, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1340.
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).
RAYMOND CHANDLER'S PHILIP MARLOWE: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Anthology of stories featuring the Philip Marlowe character. The stories are placed in a timeline, starting in 1935 and ending in 1959. Authors include: Max Allan Collins, Jonathan Valin, Sara Paretsky, John Lutz, Robert Crais, Ed Hoch and others.
THE ULTIMATE FRANKENSTEIN.
[London]: Headline, [1992]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Original anthology collecting nineteen stories by Katherine Dunn, Brian Aldiss, Michael Bishop, Kurt Vonnegut and others.
THE ARBOR HOUSE TREASURY OF HORROR AND THE SUPERNATURAL ...
New York: Arbor House, [1981]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Collects forty-one stories by Stephen King, Thomas M. Disch, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Sheckley, Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon, and others, with 9-page introduction by Stephen King.
THE MISADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-xiv [1-3] 4-363 [364-366], original black cloth front and spine stamped in orange, top edge stained red. First edition.
ELLERY QUEEN'S GRAND SLAM: 25 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1970. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The twenty-fifth annual selection of stories reprinted from EQMM. Contributions by Stanley Ellin, Christina Brand, Anthony Gilbert, Michael Gilbert, Lawrence Treat, Margery Allingham, Julian Symons, Joe Gores, and others. Review slip laid in.
THE LITERATURE OF CRIMES: STORIES BY WORLD-FAMOUS AUTHORS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-six stories from writers not known for mystery fiction. Authors included are Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Will Cather, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon and others. Introductory comment before each story.
THE LITERATURE OF CRIMES: STORIES BY WORLD-FAMOUS AUTHORS.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-six stories from writers not known for mystery fiction. Authors included are Sinclair Lewis, Pearl S. Buck, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Will Cather, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon and others. Introductory comment before each story.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1947.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. First hardcover appearance of Jack Finney's first story "The Widow's Walk"
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1947.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM, the second in the series. Fiction by H. F. Heard, Carter Dickson, Q. Patrick, Leslie Charteris, Stuart Palmer and others. Also includes the first hardcover appearance of Jack Finney's first story "The Widow's Walk"
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS: EIGHTH SERIES.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 16 of the 55 prize winning stories. Authors include Steve Frazee, Roy Vickers, Stanley Ellin, Eleazar Lipsky, Lillian de la Torre, Edgar Pangborn and others.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS: FIFTH SERIES.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 13 of the 33 prize winning stories. Authors include John Dickson Carr, Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer, Stanley Ellin, Margery Allingham, John D. MacDonald and others.
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS: SIXTH SERIES.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. Octavo, boards. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. This volume collects 14 of the 30 prize winning stories. Authors include Charlotte Armstrong, Stanley Ellin, Roy Vickers, Q. Patrick, C. S. Forester, Lord Dunsany and others.
ROGUES' GALLERY: THE GREAT CRIMINALS OF MODERN FICTION.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Companion volume to 101 YEAR'S ENTERTAINMENT. This anthology collects 32 stories with focus on successful crooks. With commentary before each story. This contains the first book publication of the Dashiell Hammett story, "Ruffian's Wife" (from Sunset Magazine, 1925). Author's included are a who's who of the best; Agatha Christie, H. C. Bailey, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Grant Allen, Roy Vickers, R. Austin Freeman, William Hope Hodgson, Leslie Charteris, Fredric Brown and many more.
25th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL: ELLERY QUEEN'S GRAND SLAM: 25 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, [1970]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The 25th annual collection, 25 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Edward Hoch, Stanley Ellin, Anthony Gilbert, Joe Gores and others.
CHALLENGE TO THE READER.
New York: The American Mercury, n.d. Wrappers. First paperback edition. Abridged from the 1938 hardcover edition. Anthology of stories in which the detective's name is changed and the reader must deduct their identity from reading the story.
ELLERY QUEEN'S 16th MYSTERY ANNUAL: THE YEAR'S BEST FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1961]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The 16th annual collection, 22 stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Frances and Richard Lockridge, Stanley Ellin, Evan Hunter, Hal Ellson, Arthur C. Clarke and many others. This also includes the first appearance in hardcover of Hammett's, "A Man Named Thin." The Hammett story was previously unpublished, it was acquired by in 1946 by the editors but did not see print in the magazine until 1960 (this story has no relation to The Thin Man).
ELLERY QUEEN'S 20th ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL: 20 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The 20th annual collection, stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Stanley Ellin, Nicholas Blake, Robert L. Fish, Avram Davidson, Fredric Brown and many others.
ELLERY QUEEN'S AWARDS: TWELFTH SERIES.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Winner's of the magazines annual short story contest. Includes the Edgar nominated "And Already Lost" by Charlotte Armstrong. Another significant fiction, "Malice in Wonderland" by Rufus King. Other authors include Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Manly Wade Wellman and ten others.