Paperback
DRAWN AND QUARTERED.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First revised paperback edition. Pocket 50058. Contents of this edition differ somewhat from the contents of the 1946 paperback edition published by Bantam. Collection of 115 of the author's drawings, of which 111 originally appeared in the New Yorker magazine 1935-1942.
HOMEBODIES.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket 50062. Collects 90 drawings, the majority from the New Yorker magazine. Many feature The Addams Family.
WANTED: SOMEONE INNOCENT AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Stamford House, [1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pony Book 56. Collects the title story and three others, "The Sexton's Wife," "'Tis Not Hereafter," and "He Was Asking After You."
BEYOND.
[New York]: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1963]. Small octavo, cover painting by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F712. Paperback original. Collection of nine stories from Beyond magazine. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Theodore Sturgeon, Algis Budrys and others.
SOMETIME, NEVER: THREE TALES OF IMAGINATION by William Golding, John Wyndham [and] Mervyn Peake.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Ballantine Books 215. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding (science fiction set in the ancient world), "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham (feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future), and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake (a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan). Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY (1958). According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-78. Reginald 13447.
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.
WITH EYES WIDE OPEN.
[New York]: A Midwood Book, [1963]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood F309. Paperback original.
THE GRIM CARETAKER.
London: Strothers Bookshop's Ltd, n.d., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [1-2: front covers] [3] 4-49 [50] [51-52: rear cover] pictorial wrappers. First edition. The second of three paperbacks published in 1944 featuring Lucian Carolus, Professor of Archaeology and scholar of the supernatural, an occult investigator in the vein of Hodgson’s Thomas Carnacki. In this book Carolus investigates a case of demonic possession at an isolated English estate. Highlights include a mysterious manservant with mesmeric powers and a battle with possessed mouse. Good pulp fun of the period. THERE WERE NO ASPER LADIES, the first Carolus adventure involves a case of vampirism and the final Carolus title, UNCANNY ADVENTURES, is a collection of 5 short stories which include werewolves and devil worshippers. Day, The Checklist of Fantastic Literature in Paperbound Books, p. 3. Reginald 00531. Hubin (1994), p. 32. Not in Bleiler.
THERE WERE NO ASPER LADIES.
London: The Mitre Press, n.d., [1944]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-126 [127-128: ads], pictorial wrappers. First edition. "The first of the Lucian Carolus occult detective stories, a full-length novel of vampirism." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 23. Bleiler (1978), p.11. Reginald 00532. Hubin (1994), p. 32.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH...
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions, Donning, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Amusing fantasy story involving magicians, demons, other dimensions and misadventures. The first in the series. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-13.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH.
Norfolk: Starblaze Editions, Donning, 1978. Octavo, illustrations by Kelly Freas, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Starblaze Editions SB 04. Trade paperback format. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-13.
THE JUDAH LION CONTRACT.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2608. Paperback original. A Joe Gall spy thriller. Joe Gall is a ruthless free-lancer called "The Nullifer."
THE WHITE WOLVERINE CONTRACT.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # T2508. Paperback original. A Joe Gall spy thriller. Joe Gall is a ruthless free-lancer called "The Nullifer."
THE CASE OF THE BOUNCING BETTY bound with THE CASE OF THE VIOLENT VIRGIN.
New York: Ace Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double D-259. Paperback original. Two Ed Noon novels, first book publication for both. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 55-57. Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, pp. 31-32.
THE FEBRUARY DOLL MURDERS.
New York: Signet, 1967. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The first Ed Noon detective novel.
LITTLE MISS MURDER.
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1971. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. An Ed Noon novel.
THE LIVING BOMB.
New York: Curtis Books, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. A Ed Noon novel.
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE MORGUE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Ed Noon.
MISSING!
New York: Signet/New American Library, 1969. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
SHOOT IT AGAIN, SAM.
New York: Curtis Books, 1972. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. An Ed Noon novel.
ALL THE WAY.
[New York]: A Midwood (Tower) Publication, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Midwood #60. Paperback original. An original novel.
THE SEVEN SISTERS.
New York: A Permabook Edition published by Pocket Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabook M-4258. Paperback original. Crime novel set in Las Vegas. Hubin, p. 45.
THE CHINESE MASK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2715. Paperback original. The second Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in China. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN BANGKOK.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2820. Paperback original. The third Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Thailand. Hubin, p. 45.
THE SPY IN THE JUNGLE.
[New York]: A Signet Book, [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signet D2674. Paperback original. The first Joaquin Hawks spy thriller. Set in Southeast Asia. Hubin, p. 45.