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HAVE WIFE WILL TRADE.
[Chicago, IL: Newstand Library, 1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Newstand Library 523. Paperback original.
THE WILD SHORE.
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Books 88870-4 The author's first book. Non-utopian first book of the "Orange County" trilogy. In a keep-like enclave, a new pastoral community emerges in Southern California following a decade of nuclear winter, but the inhabitant's ignorance of the world outside is ultimately self-defeating. The first of the "New Ace Science Fiction Specials" edited by Terry Carr. 1984 Nebula nominee. Runner up for the 1985 Philip K. Dick Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-918.
RE-ENTER FU MANCHU.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1964. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later printing. Gold Medal #k1458.
THE WRATH OF FU MANCHU.
New York: DAW Books, 1976. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. DAW #186. Paperback. Story collection.
DON'T CRY, BELOVED.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett/Gold Medal, 1952. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original.
NO BUSINESS FOR A LADY.
New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal 114. Paperback original. The author's first mystery. Hard boiled with a female detective. Hubin, p. 706.
AND CHAOS DIED.
New York: Ace Publishing Corporation, [1970]. Small octavo, printed wrappers. First edition. Ace 02268. Paperback original. "A vivid and stylish psi story which is very different in feel to most earlier treatments of the subject." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (Second edition), p. 13. Nebula Award nominee. Part of the prestigious ACE "Science Fiction Special" series. The author's second novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-643. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 60. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 319. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1171-77.
CARLUCCI'S HEART.
New York: Ace Books, [1997]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Cybernoir thriller set in San Francisco of the 21st century. Third volume of a trilogy.
SHIP OF FOOLS.
New York: Ace Books, [2001]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback original. "A generation ship searching for inhabited planets is drawn by a beacon to a planet where all human residents have died violently; upon leaving, it encounters a mysterious giant ship of alien origin." - ISFDB online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-944.
EMPIRE OF THE EAST.
New York: Ace Books, [1979]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback format. Collects the first Earth's End sequence; THE BROKEN LANDS (1968), THE BLACK MOUNTAINS (1971) and ARDHEH'S WORLD (a.k.a. CHANGELING EARTH (1973), all revised for this edition. Science fiction/fantasy novel set in a post-holocaust world in which science and magic co-exist. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 7-324.
THE HOLMES-DRACULA FILE.
[New York]: Ace Books, [1978]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Dracula teams with Holmes to fight The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.
THE HOLMES-DRACULA FILE.
[New York]: Ace Books, [1978]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Dracula teams with Holmes to fight The Giant Rat of Sumatra. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.
AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.
[New York]: Ace Books, [1979]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The continued adventures of Count Dracula, he moves his character to modern times. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.
THORN.
[New York]: Ace Books, [1980]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The Dracula adventures continue. Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, pp. 505-506.
THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY STORIES: 10.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW Fantasy No. 597. Signed by Karl Wagner at his contribution. Collects eleven stories by Karl Edward Wagner, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., and others.
A SAKI SAMPLER or THE SHE-WOLF AND OTHER STORIES (jacket title).
Harrisburg, PA: A Superior Reprint published by The Military Service Publishing Co., [1945]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Superior Reprint M656. Collects twenty-four short stories selected from his various collections.
PASSING STRANGE.
[New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., 1943]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Handi-Books #19.
WHIP HAND.
Greenwich, CT., Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #s1087. Paperback original.
THE CASE OF THE MISSING CORPSE.
New York: Parsee Publications, [1947]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bleak House Mystery 15. Mystery novel. Note: author's name misspelled on the front cover.
CLONED LIVES.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1976]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's first book. "Fix-up novel ... The members of a scientifically produced 'clone family' grow up in a world which misunderstands them. A more scrupulously realistic treatment of this theme is to be found in Kate Wilhelm's novel of the same year, WHERE LATE THE SWEET BIRDS SANG." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 71. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-958. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 402-05.
STARSHADOWS: TEN STORIES...
New York: Ace Books, [1977]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's second book and first story collection, ten fictions, introduction by Terry Carr. "Ten sf stories of the 70s, some of them touching on biological and feminist themes. Competent work by one the decades better new writers." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 284.
WATCHSTAR.
New York: Pocket Books, [1980]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. The author's author's fourth book, a YA novel, first of a trilogy. "The heroines of the Watchstar trilogy ... live on a far future Earth inhabited by technologically primitive villagers who possess telepathic and telekinetic powers. Daiya, Lydee, and Anra question the conservative world views of their culture and seek to discover the secrets of their world and of the Comet Dwellers, the descendants of humans who long ago left Earth. The fate of the planet is in the hands of these young visionaries." - Thomas J. Morrissey, Watson and Schellinger (editors), Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, third edition, p. 690. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 402.
THE AEGEAN AFFAIR.
New York: Dell, 1982. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Author's second book.
THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES.
New York: Fawcett Columbine / The Ballantine Publishing Group, [1998]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade paperback. Collects the entire serialized novel which was first issued in six parts, this edition makes any corrections needed from the individual volumes. In a small New Hampshire town, people receive anonymous strange gifts with terrible results. It is all connected to a long standing abandoned Asylum which is meant to be torn down.
M SQUAD: THE CASE OF THE CHICAGO COP-KILLER.
New York: Belmont Books, [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Belmont 91-254. Paperback original. Television tie-in novel to the show M Squad starring Lee Marvin. Hubin, p. 719.