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GIFTS OF ASTI.
L.A. Published by Griffin Publishing Co., 1949. Small octavo, printed wrappers, stapled. First edition. Signed by Norton (as Norton and North) and Wells. First book appearance of this story, her second published SF story. First published in William Crawford's FANTASY BOOK, number 3 (1948). Also included is EMPIRE OF DUST by Basil Wells.
SCARFACE.
New York: Comet Books, 1949. Octavo, illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Comet Books 28. Boys Pirate adventure novel.
INQUEST.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
TOO MANY WOMEN.
New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. A Handi-Book mystery. Abridgment of The Cuckoo Clock.
CASE OF THE DEADLY KISS.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1957. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
DRESSED TO KILL.
New York: Graphic Publishing, 1954. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. A hard boiled novel. Cover illustration by Walter Popp.
LINE TO TOMORROW.
New York: Bantam Books, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Mitchell Hooks, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 1251. Paperback original. Collects seven stories.
THE SHIP FROM NOWHERE AND THE MOON MIRAGE.
New York: Stellar Publishing Co., 1932. Wrappers. First edition. Science Fiction Series #18. Printed wrappers, a 24 page booklet. A Gernsback publication. Two stories.
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER BROTHER.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1975. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Sherlockiana. Based on the screenplay by Gene Wilder. Includes stills from the motion picture.
THE OTHER HUMAN RACE.
New York: Avon Books, 1964. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Sequel to LITTLE FUZZY. Anatomy of Wonder 3-308.
STAR SHORT NOVELS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine 89. Original anthology that collects three short novels by Jessamyn West, Lester del Rey and Theodore Sturgeon.
BEYOND THE END OF TIME.
Garden City: Permabooks, [1952]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabooks P145. Collects nineteen stories by John D. MacDonald, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury, Jack Finney, Arthur C. Clarke, and others.
SHADOW OF TOMORROW: 17 GREAT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
Garden City: Permabooks, [1953]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Permabooks P236. Collects seventeen stories by Robert A. Heinlein, Fritz Leiber, John Wyndham, C. M. Kornbluth, and others.
STAR OF STARS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ballantine Books U2171. Collects fourteen stories selected from the Ballantine Star Science Fiction Stories series by C. M. Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Kuttner, and others. See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-222.
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 2.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 55. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fourteen stories by Alfred Bester, Hal Clement, Lester del Rey, C. M. Kornbluth, and others. Includes Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life," a story Bleiler (1983) terms "a modern classic." Also, "The Purple Fields," Robert Crane's first published story, a tale of a post-World War III future in which the United States is an authoritarian dystopia controlled by the "Program." Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1319.
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES NO. 5.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1959]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 308K. Fifth of the six volumes in this pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects nine stories by Richard Matheson, Robert Silverberg, Algis Budrys, Daniel F. Galouye, and others. There was no hardcover issue of this volume in the series. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398.
STAR SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1953]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 16. The pioneer SF original anthology series. Collects fifteen stories by C. M. Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Fritz Leiber, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1398. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1318.
THE CASE AGAINST TOMORROW.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 206. Paperback original. ollects six stories. Includes "My Lady Green Sleeves," a dystopia in which place in society is based on occupation, and "The Midas Plague," a consumer dystopia.
TURN LEFT AT THURSDAY.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 476K. Paperback original. Collects seven stories.
THE FROZEN PLANET AND OTHER STORIES.
[New York]: A Macfadden-Bartell Book, [1966]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Macfadden Books 60-229. Paperback original. Collect of five novellas from IF magazine. Keith Laumer, F.L. Wallace, Allen Kim Lang, Daniel Keyes and Clifford D. Simak.
JANISSARIES.
New York: Ace Books, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback issue. First book of the Janissaries series. Military SF.
THE ANUBIS GATES.
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1983]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Time travel fantasy, one the early Steampunk novels. Winner of the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-871. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-302. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-207. Jones and Newman (eds), Horror: 100 Best Books 88. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 84.
THE COMFORTABLE COFFIN.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1960. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Collection of stories from the Mystery Writers of America. Includes a Jack Finney story.
IN SILENCE SEALED.
[New York]: Tor, [1988]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Inscribed and signed by Ptacek on the title page. Horror novel involving the poets of the Romantic movement, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron who are imperiled by a succubus.
BRING ME ANOTHER CORPSE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1959. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Hardboiled.