Anthology
THE QUEEN'S AWARDS 1949.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Prize winning detective stories from EQMM. Includes stories by Fredric Brown, Helen McCloy, Clayton Rawson, Leslie Charteris and many others.
TO BE READ BEFORE MIDNIGHT: 21 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1962]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. 21 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine.
TO BE READ BEFORE MIDNIGHT: 21 STORIES FROM ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE.
New York: Random House, [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. This is the 17th Annual collection of stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Author's included are: Avram Davidson, Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, William McGivern and others.
ELLERY QUEEN'S CHALLENGE TO THE READER: AN ANTHOLOGY.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] 1-502 [503: acknowledgments] [504: blank], original gray cloth spine stamped in black, red and gold. First edition. Anthology of 25 detective stories not previously collected in a U. S. anthology, the "Challenge to the Reader" is that the detectives in the stories names are changed and it is left to the reader to identify them and the author. Includes the work of A. Conan Doyle, H. C. Bailey, Agatha Christie, Ernest Bramah, Dashiell Hammett and others. The first anthology edited by Queen.
AN EYE FOR JUSTICE: THE THIRD PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA ANTHOLOGY.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Original anthology of 13 stories. Includes a Kinsey Millhone story by Sue Grafton.
THE EYES HAVE IT: THE FIRST PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA ANTHOLOGY.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Original anthology of 17 stories.
JUSTICE FOR HIRE: THE FOURTH PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA ANTHOLOGY.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Original anthology of 15 stories.
MEAN STREETS: THE SECOND PRIVATE EYE WRITERS OF AMERICA ANTHOLOGY.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Original anthology of 12 stories. Includes a Kinsey Millhone story by Sue Grafton.
BEST MYSTERY STORIES.
London: Faber and Faber, [1968]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects sixteen stories by Wilkie Collins, A. C. Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, Patricia Highsmith, Eric Ambler and others.
MIDNIGHT NEVER COMES.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of supernatural tales by contemporary writers.
ARKHAM'S MASTERS OF HORROR: A 60th ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY RETROSPECTIVE OF THE FIRST 30 YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE. EDITED WITH HISTORICAL NOTES BY PETER RUBER.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4000 copies printed. Collects twenty stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and others, excerpts from letters from H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, and short biographical essays on the contributors and a 31-page introduction, "The Un-demonizing of August Derleth," by editor Peter Ruber. All stories previously unpublished or have never been published in an Arkham House volume.
ARKHAM'S MASTERS OF HORROR: A 60th ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY RETROSPECTIVE OF THE FIRST 30 YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE. EDITED WITH HISTORICAL NOTES BY PETER RUBER.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty stories by Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and others, excerpts from letters from H. P. Lovecraft to August Derleth, and short biographical essays on the contributors and a 31-page introduction, "The Un-demonizing of August Derleth," by editor Peter Ruber. All stories previously unpublished or have never been published in an Arkham House volume.
MATHENAUTS: TALES OF MATHEMATICAL WONDER.
New York: Arbor House, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Partially original anthology collecting twenty-three stories by Isaac Asimov, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Larry Niven, Robert Sheckley, Ian Watson, Rucker, and others. An "entertaining anthology." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 419.
THE BEST OF PULPHOUSE: THE HARDBACK MAGAZINE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Collection of 25 stories. Includes fiction by Charles de Lint, Greg Egan, Harlan Ellison, and Jane Yolen.
BEST UNDERWORLD STORIES.
London: Faber and Faber, 1969. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY.
[London]: New English Library, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects sixteen stories by Christopher Priest, Terry Greenhough, Bob Shaw, Olaf Stapledon, and others.
THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY STORIES: 10.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW Fantasy No. 597. Signed by Karl Wagner at his contribution. Collects eleven stories by Karl Edward Wagner, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., and others.
TALES BY MOONLIGHT.
Chicago, IL: Robert T. Garcia, Publisher, 1983. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty horror stories by then new writers including Jody Scott, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Steve Rasnic Tem and others, with introduction by Stephen King.
THE LOCKED ROOM READER: STORIES OF IMPOSSIBLE CRIMES AND ESCAPES.
New York: Random House, [1968]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collection of fourteen classic locked room fictions. Includes "The Big Bow Mystery" by Israel Zangwill. Other authors included are John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Craig Rice, G.K. Chesterton, and others.
THE FANTASTIC UNIVERSE OMNIBUS.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects nineteen stories by Isaac Asimov, William Tenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1440. Reginald 12678.
THE FANTASTIC UNIVERSE OMNIBUS.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1960]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed by editor Santesson on the front free end paper. Collects nineteen stories by Isaac Asimov, William Tenn, Arthur C. Clarke, Avram Davidson, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1440. Reginald 12678.
REDSHIFT: EXTREME VISIONS OF SPECULATIVE FICTION.
[New York]: A Roc Book, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology with thirty stories by Dan Simmons, Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, Thomas M. Disch, Stephen Baxter, Joe Haldeman, Larry Niven, Gene Wolfe, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1383.
GREAT SHORT STORIES OF DETECTION, MYSTERY AND HORROR.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-8 [9] 10-1229 [1230: blank] [1231: appendix] [1232: blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange. First edition, first printing. A 1231-page anthology collecting sixty-six stories. "Gigantic, very well chosen collection of stories dealing with crime and the supernatural. An excellent historical introduction on the evolution of the detective story." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1443. "Splendid anthology ... Sayers's introduction has become a classic in its own right, being the best short sketch of a general nature on the subject of mystery-detective fiction." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-85. "A cornerstone volume ..." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2778. This Gollancz edition includes four more stories than its American counterpart published in 1929 by Payson and Clarke Ltd as THE OMNIBUS OF CRIME.
WHISPERS III.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. Octavo, illustration by Tim Kirk, boards. First edition. Anthology with Dennis Etchison, Hugh Cave, Roger Zelazny, Karl Edward Wagner, and others.
WHISPERS II.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Lengthy presentation copy with signed inscription by Schiff to Dick Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society, on front free endpaper. Collects twenty -one stories stories by Karl Edward Wagner, Avram Davidson, Richard Christian Matheson, Russell Kirk, Joseph Payne Brennan, Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber and others. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-361.