Story Collection (single author)
MISS BRACEGIRDLE AND OTHERS.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-332 [333-334: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Collects thirteen stories, several crime, two of which were used as film sources. Aumonier was a highly regarded short fiction writer, praised by John Galsworthy and James Hilton. Hubin, p. 37. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 7.
ALL GOOD AMERICANS ... With a Preface by Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-xii] [1-2] 3-373 [274: blank] [note: first leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. The Wisconsin-born writer's first book, a collection of twelve stories of small town life in the American Midwest, with an introduction by Ernest Hemingway praising "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness."
BETWEEN THE LIGHTS.
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-253 [254-256: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank] + 52-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, First edition. Collection of short fiction and poetry including supernatural stories and tales based on folk legend. The author's novel, THE CANDLE VIRGINS (1937), is listed in Reginald. This collection is not recorded in the standard checklists of fantastic fiction.
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11.
THE FACE IN THE MIRROR.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1971. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 2045 copies printed. Welsh author Denys Val Baker (1917-1984) was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, reminiscences, and articles, much of whose work was regional writing about Cornwall where he resided permanently after 1948. This selection of twelve stories is his major collection of weird fiction. "These unusual fantasy and macabre stories are among Baker's best work in the genre ... 'The Face in the Mirror' and 'Passage to Liverpool' are remarkable pieces." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-11. The author of "many weird and bizarre stories," this collection includes "his best weird tales. Seldom supernatural, his tales stress the psychological effects of the inexplicable upon people." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 24-5.
THE SHADOW ON THE BLIND AND OTHER GHOST STORIES. Introduction by Richard Dalby and John Pelan.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 500 copies. Reprints nine stories from the scarce 1895 edition and one additional that was unpublished.
THE DAY OF FOREVER.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1986. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. Collects ten stories, contents as per 1967 Panther Books edition. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-54.
DISASTER AREA.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1967]. Octavo, decorated wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed by Ballard on the title page. Collects nine stories including "The Subliminal Man" and "The Impossible Man." Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-55.
THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL NIGHTMARE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first short story collection. Collects eight stories including "The Voices of Time," "Prima Belladonna," and "Chronopolis."
LOVE AND NAPALM: EXPORT U.S.A.
New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1972]. Octavo, cloth. First published U.S. edition. First printed, but never published by Doubleday in 1970 as THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION. The Doubleday edition was destroyed by the publisher with only a handful of copies surviving (seemingly because of the story "Why I Want to F**k Ronald Reagan." This edition includes a preface by William S. Burroughs, original to this edition. Collection of linked stories, the contents follow that of the U.K. edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-62. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1274-77.
MEMORIES OF THE SPACE AGE ...
[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1988]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 4903 copies printed. Collects eight stories, all the Cape Canaveral and related fiction, including several stories not previously reprinted.
VERMILION SANDS.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Collection of stories first published in magazines between 1956 and 1970 "about a decaying artists' colony in the near future, set against surrealistic desert landscapes. With their motifs of singing flowers and statues, living clothes, cloud-sculpting and psychotropic houses, the tale are not conventionally linked, and have differing characters. All marvelously original, with unforgettable imagery. One of Ballard's most brilliant books ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401. This edition adds "The Singing Statues." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-69.
VERMILION SANDS.
[London]: Jonathan Cape, [1973]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Ballard on the title page. "Collection of stories first published in magazines between 1956 and 1970 "about a decaying artists' colony in the near future, set against surrealistic desert landscapes. With their motifs of singing flowers and statues, living clothes, cloud-sculpting and psychotropic houses, the tale are not conventionally linked, and have differing characters. All marvelously original, with unforgettable imagery. One of Ballard's most brilliant books ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 401. This edition adds "The Singing Statues." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-69.
SHYLOCK HOMES: HIS POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS.
[Arlington, VA]: The Dispatch-Box Press, 1973. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Edited and introduction by Jon L. Lellenberg. Collection of 10 Sherlock Holmes parodies which were serialized in American newspapers in 1903. This collection is taken from the pages of the The New York Herald.
A BOOK OF GHOSTS. Introduction by Richard Dalby.
Penyffordd, Chester: Ash-Tree Press, 1996. Octavo, cloth. Enlarged edition. Limited to 400 copies. Collects the twenty-one stories published in the 1904 Methuen edition and adds two other supernatural tales by Baring- Gould, "A Dead Man's Teeth" and "The Old Woman of Wesel," and a new 13- page introduction by Richard Dalby. "Collection of ghost stories, some dating back to the 1850s. Most are slight tales of apparitions; the most interesting are 'Pomps and Vanities,' a tale of possession; and 'The Merewigs,' a farce in which persons who made no spiritual progress in their last incarnation must now haunt the British Museum." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-6. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 26-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 97. Bleiler (1978), p. 15. Reginald 00865.
BOOKS OF BLOOD Volumes 1-6
London and Sydney: Sphere Books Limited, [1984-1985]. Small octavo, six volumes, pictorial wrappers. First editions, first printings, first state covers. Signed by Barker in volumes two, three and six. Paperback originals of the author's first six books. Horror short fiction. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-21. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-20.
BOOKS OF BLOOD Volumes 4-6 (three books).
London and Sydney: Sphere Books Limited, [1985]. Small octavo, three books, pictorial wrappers. First editions. Paperback originals. Each volume signed by Barker to "Tim [Underwood]" and date 30th July 1985. The second set of three volumes of short fiction. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-21.
IN THE FLESH.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 5.
IN THE FLESH.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 5.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE INHUMAN CONDITION.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1986. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Published in Britain as BOOKS OF BLOOD, VOL. 4.
THE FACE AND THE MASK.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, [1895]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-250 [251: ads] [252: blank], five inserted plates with illustrations by A. Hencke, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver, silver top edge, other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A scarce collection of short fiction including "The Doom of London," a catastrophe story, and "The Great Pegram Mystery, a Sherlock Holmes parody. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-8 and (1981) 1-14. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 101. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 126 and 127. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 046. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 28. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 55. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 16. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 51.
TRACES.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter. Story collection.
VACUUM DIAGRAMS: STORIES OF THE XEELEE SEQUENCE.
[London]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Short stories written between 1987-1995 which have been revised and placed in novel format, with a new timeline and references to the novels in the 'Xeelee Sequence' (RAFT, TIMELIKE INFINITY, FLUX and RING). Winner of the 1999 Philip K. Dick award for the U.S. publication.