Anthology
THE DETECTION COLLECTION: STORIES AND ESSAYS BY THE DETECTION CLUB.
Gladestry: Scorpion Press, [2005]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First limited edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the editor and all authors (except Akunin and Johnson, authors of the lead essay). Original anthology of stories celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Detection Club which also includes the essay "A Tribute to the Detection Club" by Boris Akunin and Michael Johnson, which is special to this edition.
FROM UNKNOWN WORLDS...
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 1952. Large octavo, illustrations by Edd Cartier, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. Collects thirteen stories and four poems by L. Sprague de Camp, Anthony Boucher, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and others from Unknown / Unknown Worlds. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 340.
UNCANNY BANQUET.
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1992. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Horror anthology which includes a reprint of the very scarce short novel THE HOLE OF THE PIT by Adrian Ross which has not seen print since original publication in 1914.
SUPERHORROR.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1977]. Octavo, boards. First edition, U. S. issue. Original anthology with nine stories by Brian Lumley, R. A. Lafferty, David Drake, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Campbell, and others.
DRAGONS OF LIGHT ...
New York: Ace Books, [1980]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Original anthology collecting thirteen stories by George R. R. Martin, Roger Zelazny, Michael Bishop, Jane Yolen, and others. Trade paperback format.
NEW WRITINGS IN SF1 with NEW WRITINGS IN SF2 with NEW WRITINGS IN SF3.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [196-1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. editions. Bantam F3245, F3379, F3380. The first three volumes of this important original anthology series. Published as paperbacks in the U.S. Authors include John Rankine, Brian Aldiss, Damien Broderick and two more in volume one; John Rackham, Colin Kapp, Joseph Green and five more in volume two and John Kingston, Keith Roberts, James Schmitz and five more in volume three. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1371.
UNIVERSE 15.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition.
THE IDES OF TOMORROW: ORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION TALES OF HORROR.
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1976]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting nine stories by Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe, Cherry Wilder, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, and others.
FLASHING SWORDS! #4: BARBARIANS AND BLACK MAGICIANS.
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., [1977]. Octavo, First printing has code "H19" on page 182. First edition. First printing with code "H19" on page 182. Original anthology collecting five novellas by Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, John Jakes, Katherine Kurtz, and Michael Moorcock.
THE UNEXPECTED.
New York: Bantam Books, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 502. Collects twenty stories by John Collier, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Dunsany, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Bloch and others.
THE NEW MYSTERY: THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIME WRITERS' ESSENTIAL CRIME WRITING OF THE LATE 20TH CENTURY.
New York: Dutton, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
COLD BLOOD.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology with stories from Nancy Collins, Richard Laymon, F.P. Wilson, Joe Lansdale and 22 others.
MODERN MASTERS OF HORROR.
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Partially original anthology of fifteen stories. Includes the first hardcover appearances of "The Monkey" by Stephen King, "The Champion" by Richard Laymon, & "Makeup" by Robert McCammon. Other fiction by Davis Grubb, graham Masterton, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch and more. One of the better horror anthologies of the eighties.
13 GREAT STORIES OF SCIENCE FICTION.
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books, [1962]. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. Gold Medal k1243. Second printing of this anthology. Fiction by Sturgeon, Clarke, Knight, Wyndham, Budrys & others.
17X INFINITY.
[New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 7746. Paperback original. Collects seventeen stories with Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, E.M. Forster, Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon and others.
INVADERS OF EARTH.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket Book 1074. Collects fifteen of the twenty-two stories that appeared in the hardcover edition.
OPERATION FUTURE.
New York: Permabooks, [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabooks M-4022. Collects seventeen stories and two short novels. Authors include Theodore Sturgeon, John Beynon, Eric Frank Russell, Clifford Simak, Jack Finney, Jerome Bixby, Isaac Asimov and others.
THE SUPERNATURAL READER.
Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects twenty-seven stories covering the Victorian era to the 1950s. Authors include F. Marion Crawford, Fitz-James O'Brien, E. Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, E. M. Forster, John Collier, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, and others. "A good collection of traditional and fairly modern material." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 419.
4 FOR THE FUTURE.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Second printing. Pyramid F-743. Collects four stories by Henry Kuttner, Theordore Stugeon, Poul Anderson and Eric Frank Russell.
DIMENSION 4.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid F-793. Paperback original. Collects four stories by Theodore Sturgeon, John D. MacDonald, E.C.Tubb and Cleve Cartmill. Three originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, one in Nebula.
FIFTY SHORT SCIENCE FICTION TALES.
New York: Collier Books, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. AS 516. Paperback original. Collection of stories, most very short, featuring most of the major SF authors.
FIVE-ODD.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-1056. Collects five stories by Isaac Asimov, Kingley Amis, James H. Schmitz, J.T. McIntosh and F.L. Wallace.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR 1953.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazines. Collects twelve stories with Anthony Armstrong, Victor Canning, Anthony Boucher, Stuart Palmer, John D. MacDonald, and others.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR [1946].
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1946. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazine and pulp sources. Author's included: G.T. Fleming Roberts, Q. Patrick, Bruno Fischer, Day Keene, and others.
BEST DETECTIVE STORIES OF THE YEAR: 14th ANNUAL COLLECTION.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Anthology of detective fiction selected from popular magazine and pulp sources. Author's included: Donald Westlake, Roy Vickers, Craig Rice, and others.