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COSMIC EXODUS.
[London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1953]. Octavo, cover by Ronald Turner, pictorial wrappers. First edition. "Tit-Bits Science-Fiction Library." Following a civil war in 1971, England is a dystopia controlled by a ruthless dictator whose fiendish schemes include turning cadavers into robots with the help of Dr. Azimov of Vienna. But the dictator's plans pale before those of Brenda Norcross, a brilliant and beautiful female industrialist (who is actually a bioengineered Martian super scientist in disguise) who plans to enslave the entire planet to provide breeding stock for the dying Martian race (the Martian survivors have left Mars and are currently hiding out in the interior of Uranus). Harbottle and Holland A118. Reginald 05293.
THE MAN WHO MURDERED HIMSELF.
New York: Avon Pocket-Size Books, n.d., [1942]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition of the Avon paperback printing. [Avon 18] Not numbered but Avon number eighteen. Mystery novel. After Pocket Books started using independent distributors Avon Pocket-Size Books was formed as competition. After a lawsuit with Pocket, Avon would be forced to drop "Pocket-Size" on their releases.
SKIN FOLK.
[New York]: Aspect/Warner Books, [2001]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's first collection, fifteen stories. 2002 World Fantasy Award winner for best collection. "In explaining the title for her first short fiction collection, Skin Folk, Nalo Hopkinson says that: 'Throughout the Caribbean, under different names, you'll find stories about people who aren't what they seem. Skin gives these skin folk their human shape. When the skin comes off, their true selves emerge... it seemed an apt metaphor to use for these stories collectively.' That said, it is interesting to note that while mostly grounded in an ethnic folklore, including the exotic diction that distinguished Hopkinson's first two novels, foreign to a genre dominated by a white European orientation, the collection is bookended by two riffs on the Brothers Grimm." "So, I imagine, it is with many of us who hear secondhand from others of things we were supposed to have done in our own bodies, but have been bent out of proportion more to suit the teller than the reality. The only difference is that the storytellers who reinvent us for their own purposes are not nearly as inventive or interesting as Hopkinson." - David Soyka, online review at sfsite.
FIRST STEP OUTWARD.
[New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1969]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell 2549. Paperback original. Collects thirteen stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Murray Leinster and others.
SECRET AGENT X: CURSE OF THE MANDARIN'S FAN.
[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR130. Book 3 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 567-568. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 475-476.
SECRET AGENT X: SERVANTS OF THE SKULL.
[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR126. Book 2 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 567-568. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 475-476.
SECRET AGENT X: THE TORTURE TRUST.
[San Diego: Corinth Publications:, 1966]. Small octavo, cover art by Robert Bonfils, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Corinth number CR122. Book 1 in the paperback reprint series from the pulp magazines. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 567-568. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 475-476.
ESCAPE TO EARTH.
New York: Belmont Books, [1963]. Small octavo, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont L92-571. Paperback original. Collects six stories by Robert Sheckley, Judith Merrill, Raymond F. Jones, and others.
NOW AND BEYOND.
New York: Belmont Books, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-646. Paperback original. Collects eight stories by Philip K. Dick, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl and others.
TIME UNTAMED.
New York: Belmont Books, [1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont B50-781. Paperback original. Collects eight stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and others.
THE WEIRD ONES.
New York: Belmont Books, [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont L92-541. Paperback original. The first of a series of anthologies edited by Howard, this one anonymously. Collects seven stories by Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Macl Reynolds and others.
CONAN THE CONQUEROR [bound with] THE SWORD OF RHIANNON by Leigh Brackett.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition and first edition. Ace Double Novel Books D36. First paperback edition of the Conan novel, first edition of the Brackett.
ETCHINGS IN IVORY: POEMS IN PROSE.
Pasedena, TX: Glenn Lord, 1968. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. The correct first edition printed on laid paper water marked "Tweedweave" with "ROBERT E. HOWARD" printed on front wrapper in 18-point Bodoni Modern capital letters. 268 copies printed.
ETCHINGS IN IVORY: POEMS IN PROSE.
Pasedena, TX: Glenn Lord, 1968. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. The correct first edition printed on laid paper water marked "Tweedweave" with "ROBERT E. HOWARD" printed on front wrapper in 18-point Bodoni Modern capital letters. 268 copies printed.
THE MISCAST BARBARIAN: A BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT E. HOWARD (1906-1936).
Saddle River, NJ: Gerry de la Ree, 1975. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Of 900 copies this is one of 770 paperbound.
OSSIAN'S RIDE.
[New York]: The Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Berkley Medallion G495. The author's second book.
EIGHT SKILLED GENTLEMEN: A MASTER LI NOVEL.
New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. Simultaneous publication with the hardcover edition. The third Master Li book.
MURDER BY TELECOPTER.
London: Printed in England and Published by Curtis Warren Ltd., n.d., [1950]. pictorial wrappers. First edition. "A futuristic mystery thriller, with the SF element being a television gizmo which can view either the past or the future ... quite well written and successful within its modest canvas ..." - Harbottle and Holland. Reginald 07540. Harbottle and Holland A240.
DON'T CROWD ME.
New York: Popular Library, [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library #478. Paperback original. McBain signature laid in. The author's second mystery novel.
SOFT TARGETS.
New York: Ace Books, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Near future political thriller concerning terrorism. A middle-Eastern terrorist preys on weak and unprepared America which brings in cash from his backers.
DEAD MAN BLUES.
New York: The American Mercury / Lawrence E. Spivak, Publisher, n.d., [1949]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. A Mercury Book, No. 135. Digest size magazine format. Abridged.
VIOLENT NIGHT.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace D-137. Paperback original. Crime novel.
BEAUTIFUL SOUP: A NOVEL FOR THE 21st CENTURY.
New York: Celadon Press, [1993]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. "At birth, everyone is barcoded by the Prime Mother Computer, and our unfortunate hero finds himself classified as a can of soup. A sharply humorous New York 'slipstream' book ... ," Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 28. The first full-length SF work by an author highly-regarded for funny magazine tales which were collected in THE EGG OF THE GLAK AND OTHER STORIES (1969). Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
THE MURDER OF THE U.S.A.
[New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., 1947]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Atomic attack on the U.S.-who is responsible?
VAMPIRE CHILD.
[New York]: Zebra Books, [1990]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Ruby Jean Jensen was one of the stable of writers of horror fiction for Zebra. See Grady Hendrix, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, p. 228.