Signed titles
VALHALLA RISING.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Cussler on the half title page. A Dirk Pitt adventure.
VALHALLA RISING.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. A Dirk Pitt adventure.
BOHEMIAN HEART.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. Author's first mystery.
THE BODY IN THE TRANSEPT.
New York: Walker, 1995. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed. Author's first mystery, introducing Dorothy Martin.
SARDIA: A STORY OF LOVE.
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers ... New York: Chas. T. Dillingham, 1891. Octavo, pp. [1-2][1-5] 6 [7] 8-299 [300: blank] [301-304: ads] [305-306: blank], original dark red decorated cloth, front stamped in black and gold, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Daniels on the front free end paper. The first novel by Victorian folklorist and occultist Cora Linn Daniels (1852-1934), a love story, set at an American seaside villa among the wealthy class in the late nineteenth century, featuring the Countess Visonti, a psychic vampire. This is not an occult or vampire novel. Reginald 21086. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Wright (III) 1393.
IN THE FIELD OF FIRE.
[New York]: Tor, [1987]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by the editors, the Danns. Anthology of twenty-two Viet-Nam themed stories. Authors include Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Karen Joy Fowler, Kate Wilhelm, Dennis Etchison, Harlan Ellison, Joe Haldeman and others.
THE ENQUIRIES OF DOCTOR ESZTERHAZY.
New York: Warner Books, [1975]. Octavo, paperback. First edition. Warner Books 76-981. Signed inscription by Davidson on the title page. The first collection of Dr. Eszterhzy stories. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, pp. 228-230.
A BODY IN THE BATH HOUSE.
London: Century, [2001]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
A DYING LIGHT IN CORDUBA.
[London]: Century, [1996]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
THE JUPITER MYTH.
London: Century, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
LAST ACT IN PALMYRA.
London: Century, [1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
ONE VIRGIN TOO MANY.
London: Century, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
POSEIDON'S GOLD.
London: Century, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
SCANDAL TAKES A HOLIDAY.
London: Century, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
TIME TO DEPART.
London: Century, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
TWO FOR THE LIONS.
London: Century, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. Mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
VENUS IN COPPER.
London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Hutchinson, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Davis on the title page. The third mystery novel set in ancient Rome featuring Marcus Didius Falco, private investigator.
KINDRED CRIMES.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page. Author's first novel.
TALES FROM GAVAGAN'S BAR.
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1953]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the half title page. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1342. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 921.
DEMONS AND DINOSAURS.
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the title page. Poetry collection.
LEST DARKNESS FALL.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1941]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x-xii] 1-379 [380: blank], original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, top edge stained yellow, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Signed by De Camp on the title page. The author's first book of fiction. An early classic of modern SF in which the protagonist is thrown back in time to the end of the Roman Empire and makes an unsuccessful attempt to use his modern scientific knowledge to prevent the Dark Ages. "Neat anthropological interpretation of history." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-135. "... de Camp's finest book." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-58. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1198-1203. In 333.
THE UNDESIRED PRINCESS.
Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, black boards, spine stamped in green. First edition, later binding with "Gnome Press" stamped at the base of the spine. This copy inscribed to Dirce Archer and signed by De Camp on the front free end paper. Collects two fictions, "The Undesired Princess" and "Mr. Arson." Both first published in Unknown Worlds pulp magazine, 1942 and 1941. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-104. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 483.
DE CAMP: AN L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP BIBLIOGRAPHY.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1983. Octavo, pictorial cloth. First edition. One of 200 clothbound copies signed by L. Sprague De Camp, Catherine Crook De Camp, Charlotte Laughlin, Daniel J. Levack and Lacy H. Hall. Illustrated bibliography.
THE HONORABLE BARBARIAN.
Norwalk: Easton Press, [1989]. Octavo, illustrated by Darrell K. Sweet, full leather, a.e.g. Limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by De Camp. Introduction by James Gunn. The final book in the Novarian series.Part of the Easton Press signed first edition series.
DIVIDE AND RULE.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1948. Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by De Camp. This is copy number 282. Collects two short novels, "Divide and Rule" (UNKNOWN, April-May 1939) and "The Stolen Dormouse" (ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, April-May 1941). "The Stolen Dormouse" is set in a "future dystopia -- feudalism based on corporations." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 221. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-132. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-101.