Queens Quorum, Haycraft Queen, Best 100 list, etc.
MR. CAMPION CRIMINOLOGIST ... SEVEN IMPORTANT EPISODES FROM THE CASE BOOK OF ALBERT CAMPION.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-308 [309-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First edition. The Doubleday, Doran edition includes a novelette, "The Case of the Late Pig," and two stories, "The Case of the Man with the Sack" and "The Case of the Pro and the Con," not included in the UK edition published two years later by Heinemann as MR. CAMPION AND OTHERS. [Reference: Queen's Quorum 92. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 32 and 2311. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 13].
THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, [1939]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-319 [320]. cloth. First edition. Published in the U.K. as The Mask of Dimitrios. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Made into a 1944 film featuring Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre, screenplay credit to Frank Gruber.
THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE.
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-299 [230: blank] [231: Crime Club statement] [232: blank], cloth. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel featuring sleuth Roger Sheringham. "...it should appeal to those who like the combination of good characterization and armchair dectection". - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 36-37. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN.
[Bath]: Morrigan Publications, 1988. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Blaylock, Tim Powers (after word), K.W. Jeter (after word) and Ferret (illustrator). "...the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. [Reference: Barron (ed.): Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-56, Barron (ed.): Fantasy Literature 4A-33, Pringle: Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels #86].
A TOAST TO TOMORROW.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday Doran and Company, Inc., 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-310, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone book. The second Tommy Hambledon spy novel, set during the period leading to WW II. [Reference: Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 214-216. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 154. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd ed.) 3709].
THE CASES OF SUSAN DARE.
Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-303, [304-306: blank], original black cloth, spine stamped in red, top edge stained red, fore edge uncut, bottom edge rough cut. First edition. Story collection. Susan Dare is a mystery writer who solves crimes on the side. Pronzine and Muller (eds.), 1001 Midnights, pp. 226. "Her dialogue is natural and unhurried and serves to reiterate, rather than advance, the plot, permitting Eberhart to intensify the suspense while slowing the pace to allow for character development. These skills...make Eberhart an important writer in the field of detective fiction." Magill (ed.): Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 562-67. [Reference: Queen's Quorum number 88. Hubin, p. 257].
MYSTERY STORIES.
New York: An Inner Sanctum Mystery Published By Simon and Schuster, 1956. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Ellin on the front free end paper. The author's third book and first story collection. Collects 10 stories including the Edgar Award winning short story "The House Party" (1955). Queen's Quorum #113. [Reference: Hubin, p. 63].
THE INCREDIBLE SCHLOCK HOLMES.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first collection of these Sherlock Holmes pastiches which are irreverent. [Reference: Hubin, p. 284. Queen's Quorum #122].
THE RED MAGICIAN.
New York: Tor, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition. The author's first novel, first published in 1982 as a paperback original. A "remarkably powerful" fantasy set during the Holocaust that won the 1982 National Book Award. "... nourishment for the mind and the soul ..." - Philip K. Dick. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-141].
THE GLASS KEY.
London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Correct first edition, first issue, of this novel, published January, 1931; the American edition was not published until April of 1931. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Filmed several times.
THE GLASS KEY.
London and New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Correct first edition, first issue, of this novel, published January, 1931; the American edition was not published until April of 1931. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume. Filmed several times.
UNCLE REMUS HIS SONGS AND HIS SAYINGS THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION ...
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1881. Octavo, pp. [1]-231 [232: blank] [333-340]: ads, flyleaves at front and rear, eight inserted plates, other illustrations in the text, by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, butterfly design endpapers. First edition. BAL reports three states, probably printings; this one is the first, with "pesumptive," page 9, last line, and "New Books. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine ..." on page [233]. The author's first book and the first of his Uncle Remus books. [Reference: Grolier Club, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900 83. Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 56-7. BAL 7100. Not in Wright, American Fiction 1876-1900].
CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii-x] 11-287 [288: ad], + 16-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind. First edition. Copies of this book were issued with and without a 16-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, priority (if any) unknown. This copy has the catalogue. Six stories featuring Carnacki, an occult detective. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-89. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 819. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 114. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 193-96. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 204. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-104. Bleiler (1978), p. 101. Reginald 07278. Queen's Quorum 53. Hubin (1994), p. 407].
CARNACKI THE GHOST FINDER.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii-x] 11-287 [288: ad], + 16-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind. First edition. Copies of this book were issued with and without a 16-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, priority (if any) unknown. This copy has the catalogue. Six stories featuring Carnacki, an occult detective. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-89. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 819. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 114. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 193-96. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 204. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-104. Bleiler (1978), p. 101. Reginald 07278. Queen's Quorum 53. Hubin (1994), p. 407].
CARNACKI THE GHOST-FINDER.
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, 1947. Octavo, illustration by Frank Utpatel, cloth. First U.S. edition. Adds three stories not included in the British edition (Nash, 1913). [Reference: Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 3-89, Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #819. Queen's Quorum #53. Hubin, p. 407].
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, cloth. First combined edition. 3014 copies printed. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST PIRATES, and THE NIGHT LAND, with introductory essay by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88; 3-91; and 3-92. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 744-48; I, pp. 143-45; II, pp. 601-04; and III, pp. 1105-10. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-103; 3-105; 3-106; and 3-110. BOATS and HOUSE in Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. HOUSE is Jones and Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books 29].
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, cloth. First combined edition. 3014 copies printed. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST PIRATES, and THE NIGHT LAND, with introductory essay by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88; 3-91; and 3-92. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 744-48; I, pp. 143-45; II, pp. 601-04; and III, pp. 1105-10. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-103; 3-105; 3-106; and 3-110. BOATS and HOUSE in Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. HOUSE is Jones and Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books 29].
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, cloth. First combined edition. 3014 copies printed. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST PIRATES, and THE NIGHT LAND, with introductory essay by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88; 3-91; and 3-92. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 744-48; I, pp. 143-45; II, pp. 601-04; and III, pp. 1105-10. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-103; 3-105; 3-106; and 3-110. BOATS and HOUSE in Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. HOUSE is Jones and Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books 29].
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, jacket by Hannes Bok, cloth. First combined edition. 3014 copies printed. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST PIRATES, and THE NIGHT LAND, with introductory essay by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88; 3-91; and 3-92. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 744-48; I, pp. 143-45; II, pp. 601-04; and III, pp. 1105-10. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-103; 3-105; 3-106; and 3-110. BOATS and HOUSE in Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. HOUSE is Jones and Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books 29].
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND AND OTHER NOVELS.
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1946. Large octavo, jacket by Hannes Bok, cloth. First combined edition. Collects four novels, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE BOATS OF THE 'GLEN CARRIG,' THE GHOST PIRATES, and THE NIGHT LAND, with introductory essay by H. C. Koenig and bibliography by A. Langley Searles. 3014 copies printed. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-88; 3-91; and 3-92. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature II, pp. 744-48; I, pp. 143-45; II, pp. 601-04; and III, pp. 1105-10. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-103; 3-105; 3-106; and 3-110. BOATS and HOUSE in Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 96-7. HOUSE is Jones and Newman, Horror: 100 Best Books 29].
THE COMPLETE CURIOUS MR. TARRANT.
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 2003. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Part of the publishers "Lost Classics" series. Collects all twelve of the Trevis Tarrant stories, the eight first published in THE CURIOUS MR. TARRANT (1935) and four collected in book form for the first time in this volume. The first seven are locked room mysteries. With a new introduction by Ed Hoch. From Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 441, of the 1935 volume, "If wealthy amateur detective Trevis Tarrant is an unremarkable sleuth, the eight cases he investigates here are remarkable indeed." Also of note is the 1935 volume of eight stories is a Queen's Quorum title.
MALICE IN WONDERLAND.
Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo, boards. First edition. Queen's Quorum #117.
AT THE VILLA ROSE.
New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1910. Octavo, original decorated red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First U. S. edition. The first Hanaud mystery. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume.
ASHENDEN: OR THE BRITISH AGENT.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-304 [305-306: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in orange. First U. S. edition. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone volume; Queen's Quorum #78. Maugham's book is based on first hand knowledge of the world of espionage as he was a British agent during World War I. States Eric Ambler: 'the first fictional work on the subject [the life of a secret agent] by a writer of stature with first-hand knowledge of what he is writing about' see Who's Who in Spy Fiction by Donald McCormick, pp. 137-39.
THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY.
New York: Pocket Books, 1940. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone book.