Mystery
PACKED FOR MURDER.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as Colonel Bogus.
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.
THE HELIX FILE.
New York: Walker, 1972. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Author's first book.
HALO OF SPEARS.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Life on the chain gang.
SLOW MOTION RIOT.
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1991. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Winner of the Edgar award for best first novel.
"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."
FIREBUG.
Evanston, IL: Regency Books, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Ellison wrote the first part of this novel.
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.
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of seventeen short stories, mostly crime, but including several horror stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 211.
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of seventeen short stories, mostly crime, but including several horror stories. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 211.
BLOOD RUNS COLD.
London: Robert Hale Limited, [1963]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Collects thirteen stories (omitting four from the U.S. edition), mixture of crime and horror stories.
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.
THE DEAD BEAT.
London: Robert Hale Limited, [1961]. Octavo, boards. First British edition. Mystery thriller, a injured young man is taken in by a couple and will not leave.
FIREBUG.
London: Corgi, 1977. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition.
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.
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.
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.
THE SCARF.
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page: "Best wishes-Robert Bloch."
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined 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.
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Bloch. 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.
SCREAMS: THREE NOVELS OF SUSPENSE.
San Rafael, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Bloch, this is copy number 1. 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.
SHOOTING STAR bound with TERROR IN THE NIGHT: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double #D-265. Paperback original. SHOOTING STAR is a "a Hollywood private eye novel." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84, TERROR IN THE NIGHT collects seven stories first printed in various digest sized mystery magazines.
SHOOTING STAR bound with TERROR IN THE NIGHT: AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1958]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double D-265. Paperback original. SHOOTING STAR is a "a Hollywood private eye novel." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84, TERROR IN THE NIGHT collects seven stories first printed in various digest sized mystery magazines.
THE WILL TO KILL.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books #S-67. Paperback original.
CLUES FOR DR. COFFEE: A SECOND CASEBOOK.
Philadelphia, New York, J.B. Lippincott Company, [1964]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first volume with Dr. Coffee was a Queens Quorum selection. Hubin, p. 81. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 67-68.