Mystery
THE BROKEN BOY.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Item #5353
THE GAUNT WOMAN.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Item #1529
THE GAUNT WOMAN.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Item #5354
MURDER AT MIDNIGHT.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as The Winds of Midnight. Item #5355
PACKED FOR MURDER.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as Colonel Bogus. Item #5352
A SCENT OF NEW-MOWN HAY.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1958. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Author's first novel. "creates a sustained nightmare in which the survivor of a Nazi concentration camp looses a biological weapon which threatens both Russia and England." - St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, pp. 75. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-39. Item #1530
JOHN SILENCE: PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi-viii] 1-390 [391-392: blank], original maroon cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. The author's third book, collection of tales concerning an occult detective. "Probably the best single volume of 20th century cases of an occult detective." - Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 36-7. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-27. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 177. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 34. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 38-40. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1443-46. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-32. Bleiler (1978), p. 24. Reginald 01392. Ashley A.3.1. Item #20063
THE CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN.
New York: Popular Library, n.d. [1945]. Small octavo, illustration by Hoffman, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Popular Library #60. A Nigel Strangeways mystery. Item #11325
THE HELIX FILE.
New York: Walker, 1972. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book. Item #5365
HALO OF SPEARS.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Life on the chain gang. Item #7682
SLOW MOTION RIOT.
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Winner of the Edgar award for best first novel. Item #6886
THE HIGHBINDERS.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1973. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Philip St. Ives novel. "[The Bleeck titles]...are distinguished for their crisp dialogue, unusual backgrounds, and understated sense of irony." Pronzini and Muller: 1001 Midnights, pp. 65. Item #5279
NO QUESTIONS ASKED.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1976. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. A Philip St. Ives novel. Item #4827
"BLAIRMOUNT?": A TURF MYSTERY.
London: The International Horse Agency and Exchange, Ltd., 1909. Octavo, original red cloth front stamped in black and white, spine stamped in black, white and gold. First edition. Card affixed to front paste down, dated Christmas 1910, "with the author's compliments, W. Allison." Item #9222
FIREBUG.
Evanston, IL: Regency Books, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Ellison wrote the first part of this novel. Item #11508
FIREBUG.
Evanston, IL: Regency Books, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Regency Books RB#101. Paperback original. Signed by both Bloch and Ellision with a terrific inscription above the title by Robert Bloch-"Harlan wrote the / good part-the / first 1200 words! / Robert Bloch" signed again by Bloch under the title and signed by Ellison. A unique copy. Item #12541
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Item #6489
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of seventeen short stories, mostly criminous, but including several horror stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 211. Item #18574
THE DEAD BEAT.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery thriller, a injured young man is taken in by a couple and will not leave. Item #18599
FIREBUG.
London: Corgi, 1977. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition. Item #4423
HORROR-7.
New York: Belmont Books, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont #90-275. Paperback original. Collection of short fiction from his Arkham House collections. Item #12547
THE KIDNAPER.
New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion Books #185. Paperback original. "...one of the author's own favorites among his work, is THE KIDNAPPER, another first person narrative of a psychopath, cold, clinical, and unsparingly honest in treatment." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84. Item #10809
THE SCARF OF PASSION.
New York: Avon Novels Inc., [1948]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Avon Monthly Novel #9. Digest size format. Signed by Bloch on the title page. Item #12340
THE SCARF.
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page: "Best wishes-Robert Bloch." Item #8280
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
SF/Columbia: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Collects The Will to Kill (1954), Firebug (1961), and The Star Stalker (1968). First hardcover edition for all titles (all first printed in paperback). The Will to Kill "tells of a Korean War veteran searching to the secret of his periodic mental blackouts"; "Firebug was the story of a murderous pyromaniac"; "The Stark Stalker, an evocative novel set in Hollywood during the last days of silent movies." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84. Item #3813