Signed titles
FOUR TO SCORE.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Evanovich on the title page. The author's fourth mystery with Stephanie Plum.
THREE TO GET DEADLY.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Scribner, [1997]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Evanovich on the title page. The author's third mystery with Stephanie Plum.
TWO FOR THE DOUGH.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore: Scribner, [1996]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed by Evanovich on the title page. The author's second mystery with Stephanie Plum.
IF YOU HAVE TEARS.
New York: Mystery House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Browne; "For---/ widely known and admired/ by someone!/ Howard Browne/ 4/16/88." Signed again by Browne on the title page. An uncommon book to find, more so signed by the author.
BLOOD.
NY: Heron Press, 1930. pp. [1-12] 13-80 [note: first leaf of first gathering excised by the binder], five inserted lithographic plates with illustrations by Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, title page printed in red and black, original paper parchment-covered boards with green cloth shelf back and pictorial paper overlay printed in black affixed to front panel, spine panel stamped in gold, decorated endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition in English. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Ewers and the artist Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Collects three contes cruels, "Mamaloi," "The White Maiden," and "Tomato Sauce," translated from the German by Erich Posselt and Sinclair Dombrow. See Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, p. 2398 for brief summaries of two of these stories. Only a handful of Ewers' short stories have been translated into English.
A FEAST UNKNOWN...
North Hollywood, Calif. An Essex House Original, [1969]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Essex House 0121. Paperback original. Signed by Farmer. A Tarzan pastiche with adult content. Postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-389. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-99. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 44.
FLESH.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Nice three-quarter page signed inscription by Farmer to "Jean" on front free end paper. First printing of the revised text.
LORD TYGER.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lengthy inscription by Farmer on the front free end paper. A Tarzan pastiche.
THE UNREASONING MASK.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1981]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Farmer. "Phil is at top form here with his spaceship captain Ramstan, the bionic [partially], spacer al-Buraq, a wide variety of life-forms, civilizations, planets, menaces... He has conceived of the universe as a kind of biological entity, and intelligent, advanced-civilization life as a disease. Thus when an automatic life-killer begins attacking human-occupied worlds... This wild, mind-blowing novel will give you different viewpoints from a variety of angles. Space adventure of the best kind." - from a review by Richard Geis in Science Fiction Review #41, November, 1981. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-394. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 96.
FIENDS.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Signed.
FIENDS.
Arlington Heights: Dark Harvest, 1990. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Farris and the illustrator Phil Parks.
LAYOVER IN DUBAI.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2010. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Fesperman on a tipped in signature page. Modern thriller set in the middle east.
LIE IN THE DARK.
[New York, Soho Press, Inc., 1994]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Fesperman on the title page. The author's first novel. Crime novel set in Sarajevo. This novel won the British Crime Writer's Association award for best first novel.
THE PRISONER OF GUANTÁNAMO.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2006. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed and dated by Fesperman on the title page. Thriller novel.
THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2003. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Signed by Fesperman on the title page. The author's second crime novel, set in Europe with the character introduced in the his novel, detective Vlado Petric. Apparently preceded by the U.K. edition.
THE WARLORD'S SON.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2004. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition. Signed by Fesperman on the title page. Thriller set in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK.
[London]: Hodder & Stoughton:, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Fforde as is his custom - "Jasper" on the title page. The author's second novel, with Thursday Next, Special Operative in literary detection.
5 AGAINST THE HOUSE.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, [1954]. Octavo, boards. First U.K. edition. Author's first novel. Signed inscription by Finney on the title page "Best wishes-/ -- from/ Jack Finney". Made into a film noir in 1955 directed by Phil Karlson, with Guy Madison, Kim Novak and Brian Keith.
THE FAST BUCK.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, cover by Barye Phillips, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #270. Signed by the author on the title page. A hard boiled novel.
MORE DEATHS THAN ONE.
Chicago and New York: Ziff Davis Publishing Company, [1947]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Fischer, dated in the year of publication. Hard boiled private eye novel. The second Ben Helm, P.I. novel. Ben Helm was one of the few P.I. characters with a successful marriage. "Much of Fischer's work deals with shocking and gruesome crimes...his handling of this material is deft and restrained, with emphasis on detection and characterization rather than on the lurid aspects." - St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, pp. 350-51.
THE SPIDER LILY.
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, [1946]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed inscription by Fischer, a presentation copy signed in the year of publication.
THUNDERBALL.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1961]. Octavo, original black boards, front stamped in blind, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Signed by Fleming on the front free end paper. A James Bond novel. The first appearance of the head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Source for several feature films. Gilbert: Ian Fleming The Bibliography, A9a (1.1). Hubin, p. 288. Smith and White: Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 1889.
GROWING UP WEIGHTLESS.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1993]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. First hardcover edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Ford. Co-winner of the 1994 Philip K. Dick Award. Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-412.
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL.
San Francisco, CA, Columbia, PA: Brandywyne Books, [1984]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 600 copies with inserted limitation leaf signed by Forsyth. Espionage thriller, made into a feature film.
A CALL TO ARMS.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1991]. Octavo, frontispiece by Barclay Shaw, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Foster. Introduction by James Gunn. First book of "The Damned" series. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series.