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THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND THRILLS: ALL-STAR STORIES OF MYSTERY, CRIME AND ROMANCE.
London: Allied Newspapers Ltd., n.d., [193-]. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 1023-page anthology with fifty stories by Ruby M. Ayres, Cameron Blake, Victor Bridges. John Buchan, Reginald Campbell, Leslie Charteris, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, and others. Contento and Greenberg, Index to Crime and Mystery Anthologies, pp. 547-48.
MY BEST MYSTERY STORY: A COLLECTION OF STORIES CHOSEN BY THEIR OWN AUTHORS.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, [1939]. Octavo, original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. 550-page anthology with nineteen stories by Peter Cheyney, Agatha Christie, Freeman Will Crofts, Philip MacDonald, Ellery Queen, John Rhode, E. C. Vivian, and others. Follow up volume to MY BEST DETECTIVE STORY.
SPACE ODYSSEY.
[London];: Octopus Books Limited, [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 349-page "instant remainder" anthology reprinting twenty-five stories, some of them classics, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Roger Zelazny, John W. Campbell, Fritz Leiber, H. G. Wells, J. G. Ballard and many others. Reginald 16614.
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
London: John Murray, [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life.
BROTHER TERMITE.
New York, San Diego, London: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1993]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. BROTHER TERMITE (1993) "uses alien visitors as complex mirrors that reflect behaviors -- genetic exigencies have forced them into a ruthlessly manipulative treatment of humans as expendable 'partners', rather like women -- to suggest a variety of surmises about the nature of human actions. The story itself -- which involves some glancing satire on contemporary life and politics, and on human obsession with UFOs and other True-Believer diseases of the psyche -- is both complex and neat" (John Clute). Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
ANTHONOLOGY.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-one stories including the unpleasant meat-is-murder story "In the Barn," first published in AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISIONS edited by Harlan Ellison (1972).
MACROSCOPE.
Boston: Gregg Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. "Four people set out on a voyage through both inner and outer space, the cosmos and the psyche to discover the source of a signal which destroys the minds of those who attempt to use the macroscope, a machine that sees through space and time" (Survey). The four use the macroscope, an alien artifact in Earth orbit to leave the Solar System and travel to the destroyer station (an artificial planet) which is actually one of the "guardian stations placed in space by an infinitely superior alien race to prevent any species from ruining themselves or others with advanced technology before they are mature enough morally to resist the temptations of galactic conquest ... Although not an allegory in the strictest sense of the term, MACROSCOPE is a novel constructed upon varied interpretations of the concept of unity ... [It] is a novel with a vast sweep that combines ideas and epic action in a way that typifies the most ambitious and exhilarating science fiction ... [It] is a complex, exciting book to read ..." (Survey). 1970 Hugo nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-32. Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 221. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1308-11.
THE BAMBOO BLOODBATH.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion N2716. Paperback original. Book 3 in the Jason Striker, Master of Martial Arts series.
TOTAL RECALL.
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1989]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Novel based on the story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick and screen treatment by Ronald Shusett and others. A recreational memory implant of a vacation on Mars places the hapless protagonist in grave danger as his dreams turn into frightening reality.
WITH EYES WIDE OPEN.
[New York]: A Midwood Book, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood F309. Paperback original.
BRAIN GUY.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first novel, hard boiled crime. Intelligent guy stumbles into the underworld and becomes the leader of a mob. Hubin, p. 27.
A VOYAGE TO THE MOON, STRONGLY RECOMMENDED TO ALL LOVERS OF REAL FREEDOM ...
London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by James Ridgway, York-Street, St. James-Square, and H. D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, 1793. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-39 [40: blank], disbound. First edition. A voyage by Balloon to the Moon. "Dystopia on the Moon -- allegory about contemporary England." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985 (1988), p. 31. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel A19. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V91. Negley, Utopian Literature 1153. Bleiler (1978), p. 9. Reginald 00468. Not in Locke, Spectrum I-III.
SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT?
New York: Viking, 1977. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
AS BAD AS I AM.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Ex-con Mike Fontaine gets mixed up in a murder he did not commit. Hubin, p. 28.
DON'T COME CRYING TO ME.
New York, Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., [1954]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Crime novel featuring Timothy Dane private eye. The Dane character is a romantic, ..."is a shamus like no other in fiction: young, naive, tender with women, inept at machismo, incapable of escaping tight spots singlehandedly, resorting to violence rarely. There is about Dane a sweetness, a delicate simplicity as incongruous as it is memorable." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 22-23. Hubin, p. 28.
COGS TYRANNIC.
[London]: Metheun, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four novellas: "Slow Journey, Swift Writing," "The Little Old Woman and Her Two Big Books," "Uses of Iron," and "'Like the Dream of a Gun ...'"
ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1921. Octavo, single issue, cover by Modest Stein, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by H. Bedford Jones ("The Pirates Ain't All Dead Yet"), James Hendryx, Max Brand and others.
ARGOSY.
Chicago: Popular Publications, 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rafael DeSoto, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes part one of "Earth's Last Citadel" by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner. Interior illustration by Virgil Finlay.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Ralph Milne Farley, Borden Chase, Theodore Roscoe and others.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1933. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by H. Bedford Jones, "The Terror of Algiers" part 1. Also part 2 of "Outlaws of Mars" by Otis Adelbert Kline.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Gordon MacCreagh, Fred MacIsaac, Ralph Milne Farley, Borden Chase, Theodore Roscoe and others.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by Theodore Roscoe, Murray Leinster, Fred MacIsaac and others.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by George Worts, Ralph Milne Farley, Borden Chase and others.
ARGOSY.
New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by John Coughlin, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by George Challis, J. Allen Dunn, W. C. Tuttle and others.