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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN THE PROCRUSTEAN BED: ESSAYS BY HARLAN ELLISON.
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of 250 copies this is one of 224 numbered & signed by Ellison & the editor, Marty Clark. Collects twenty essays, some focusing on SF and SF writers.
SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation plate signed by Ellison affixed to limitation page. A collection of stories, essays and a teleplay.
SLIPPAGE: PRECARIOUSLY POISED PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED STORIES.
[Shingletown, CA]: Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 copies with numbered limitation plate signed by Ellison affixed to limitation page. A collection of stories, essays and a teleplay. Includes "Chatting With Anubis," Bram Stoker Award for best short story, 1995 and "Mephisto in Onyx," Bram Stoker Award winner for best novella, 1993. The trade edition from Houghton Mifflin drops several pieces from this edition.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 100 copies compromising the limited edition, signed by Ellision. Originally published as a paperback original title Rockabilly. New introduction by Ellison.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Ellison; of a 126 copy limited edition. Originally published as a paperback original title Rockabilly. New introduction by Ellison.
SPIDER KISS.
[New York]: The Armchair Detective Library, [1991]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Signed on the title page by Ellison. First published in 1961 as a paperback original titled ROCKABILLY. Text offset from that of a later printing of the 1975 Pyramid Books edition. New introduction by Ellison.
STALKING THE NIGHTMARE.
Huntington Woods, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1982. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 700 numbered copies signed by Ellison. Collects sixteen stories and four essays.
STAR TREK: CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER. [FOTONOVEL #1].
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books:, [1977]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Stills from the original television episode with dialog word balloons. A brief interview with Ellison on the screenplay is included.
THE BLACK DAHLIA.
New York, London: The Mysterious Press, [1987]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Generic inscription by Ellroy on the front free end paper. A novel based on the famous unsolved murder mystery in L.A. of the late 40’s. The first book in his L. A. Quartet series of novels. Main basis for the 2006 film directed by Brian De Palma with Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart and Hillary Swank. Hubin, p. 265.
BROWN'S REQUIEM.
London, New York: Allison & Busby, [1984]. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed inscription by Ellroy. The author's first book. First published in the U.S. by Avon in 1981 as a paperback original. Filmed in 1998.
SUICIDE HILL.
New York: The Mysterious Press, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Ellroy on the half title page. "Like Thomas Harris, the starker Ellroy bridges the gap between crime and out-and-out horror." - St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 339-40. The third Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins. Hubin, p. 265.
MONDAY'S CHILD IS DEAD.
New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by the author.
EPOCH.
New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1975]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Original anthology. Signed by Jack Vance at the head of his story, "The Dogtown Tourist Agency." Also fiction by Larry Niven, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frederick Pohl, Clifford Simak, George R. R. Martin, Joanna Russ, A. A. Attanasio and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1340.
DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.
New York: Morrow, 1988. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed by Emerson. A Thomas Black mystery.
THE START OF THE END OF IT ALL AND OTHER STORIES.
[London]: The Women's Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed and dated (April 13, 1990) by Emshwiller on the title page (Locus lists publication date as April, 1990). Feminist science fiction and fantasy. Collects eighteen stories. Winner of the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best collection. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-379. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
THE START OF THE END OF IT ALL AND OTHER STORIES.
[London]: The Women's Press, [1990]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed and dated (April 13, 1990) by Emshwiller on the title page (Locus lists publication date as April, 1990). Feminist science fiction and fantasy. Collects eighteen stories. Winner of the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best collection. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-379. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
DARKNESS AND DAWN.
Boston: Small and Maynard, 1914. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] [1-2] 3-672 [673-676: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], four inserted plates (including color frontispiece) by P. J. Monahan, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, pictorial endpapers. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by England on the verso of the frontispiece: "A ma Bonne Amie / Madamoiselle Carney / avec mes meilleurs / voeux / George Allen England / 22 fevrier, 1914." An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. Trilogy originally published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-73; (1981) 1-67; (1987) 1-33 and (1995) 1-33. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 58-9. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 04904. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-194. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1097. Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 294.
GENERAL MURDERS
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. A collection of ten Amos Walker, private investigator short stories. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
KILL ZONE.
New York: Mysterious Press, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed inscription by Estleman.
LADY YESTERDAY.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...the various plot-strands are woven together without excess contrivance; the lowdown Detroit backgrounds are, as usual, sketched in with moody conviction; and, flavored with jazz-club nostalgia and world-weary gallantry, this is one of the most satisfying-if least flashy--of the Walker exploits." - Kirkus reviews, 4/21/87. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SILENT THUNDER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...it's all told in prose as rich and soothing as heavy silk by an author who exhales the soulful legacy of Chandler's p.i. through nearly every word he writes here." Kirkus review. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SINISTER HEIGHTS.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.
SUGARTOWN.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman. An Amos Walker novel. Winner of the PWA Shamus award for best novel. "Plenty of action and solid writing in the Chandler tradition make SUGARTOWN the same kind of potent book as its predecessors in the Amos Walker series." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238. Publisher's promotional flyer laid in. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344.
SUGARTOWN.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Estleman on the title page. An Amos Walker novel. Winner of the PWA Shamus award for best novel. "Plenty of action and solid writing in the Chandler tradition make SUGARTOWN the same kind of potent book as its predecessors in the Amos Walker series." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238. Review slip laid in. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344.
THE WITCHFINDER.
[New York]: The Mysterious Press / Published by Warner Books:, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page Estleman. An Amos Walker, private investigator novel. "...when a renowned Detroit architect hires him to find the cad whose cruel and cunning deception turned the architect against the woman he loved. Since this distinguished client is on his deathbed, Walker can't afford to waste any time; but then, Walker never does waste time -- or words, or energy, or anything else. With his classical job skills and austere code of ethics, this no-nonsense shamus is one of the most efficient guys in his profession. ''I'm a traditionalist,'' says Walker, who does his investigating the old-fashioned way (upfront and chin to chin), using an interview technique (he needles people) that works with everyone from yuppie priests to hired killers." - Marilyn Stasio, NY Times book review, 5/17/98. Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 343-344. See Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 238.