Mystery
BLACK BOOK DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Better Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. A Black Bat novel, "The League of Faceless Men" by G. Wayman Jones (pseudonym). Also stories by Carroll John Daly and Johnston McCulley. "The Black Bat novels were fast-moving, exciting and held your interest." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 56-59.
BROKEN BOY.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. Octavo, boards. First edition. Thriller with some macabre elements, involving underground rituals and the revival of an unholy religion. See the St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 75.
THE BROKEN BOY.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
THE GAUNT WOMAN.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
THE GAUNT WOMAN.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1962. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
MURDER AT MIDNIGHT.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as The Winds of Midnight.
PACKED FOR MURDER.
New York: Mill-Morrow, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in England as Colonel Bogus.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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."