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THE APOLLO LEGACY.
New York: Award Books, [1970]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Award Books A719S. Paperback original. Thriller/SF novel. An astronaut has an affair with a journalist and the unborn child is infected with a space virus. A C.I.A. agent investigates. Hubin, p. 49.
BOOKS OF BLOOD Volumes 1-6
London and Sydney: Sphere Books Limited, [1984-1985]. Small octavo, six volumes, pictorial wrappers. First editions, first printings, first state covers. Signed by Barker in volumes two, three and six. Paperback originals of the author's first six books. Horror short fiction. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-21. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-20.
BOOKS OF BLOOD Volumes 4-6 (three books).
London and Sydney: Sphere Books Limited, [1985]. Small octavo, three books, pictorial wrappers. First editions. Paperback originals. Each volume signed by Barker to "Tim [Underwood]" and date 30th July 1985. The second set of three volumes of short fiction. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-21.
BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD.
New York: Avon, 1982. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Author's first book. A Michael Sprague mystery.
KISS AND KILL bound with ON THE HOOK.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition and first paperback edition. Ace double D-47. Paperback original of the Barry novel. The Powell is a reprint, originally published as SHARK RIVER. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 21-22.
CHIRON.
Birmingham: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 1993. Small octavao, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. One of 400 copies done for Novacon 23. Signed by Baxter. A 12 page story in chapbook format.
THE MAGIC MAN: AND OTHER SCIENCE-FANTASY STORIES.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1586. Paperback original. Collect eighteen stories, introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Richard Matheson.
YONDER.
New York: Bantam Books, [1958]. First edition. Bantam Books A1759. Collects 15 stories, two of which had appeared in Playboy (one of the top fiction markets of the day), and one short screenplay. The author attained success quickly but was struck down in his early 30s by a mysterious illness that aged him grotesquely. His output nevertheless remains impressive. While the publisher's blurb compares him to Poe, Saki and John Collier, it seems safe at least to class him with (to mention true comparables) Fritz Leiber, Avram Davidson, Ray Bradbury and Frederic Brown.
BEST OF BEAUMONT.
Toronto, New York, London, Sydney: Bantam Books, [1982]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Collect twenty-two stories, including several previously unpublished. Introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Christopher Beaumont.
THE MAGIC MAN: AND OTHER SCIENCE-FANTASY STORIES.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1965]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett Gold Medal d1586. Paperback original. Collect eighteen stories, introduction by Ray Bradbury, afterword by Richard Matheson.
THE WINDOW WITH THE SLEEPING NUDE.
Kingston, New York: Quinn Publishing Company, Inc., [1950]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The second published novel under his own name by this prolific writer, known for his hard-boiled stories, usually with plenty of slang and a touch of the comic. He published under numerous pseudonyms and is thought to have written as many as 3,000 stories (see-Pederson (ed.) - St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, 4th ed., pp. 63-64).
SHERLOCK HOLMES IN NEW YORK.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. Sherlockiana. Novelization of the made for television movie starring Roger Moore and Patrick MacNee. Photo cover.
THE UNKNOWN FIVE.
New York: Pyramid Books, [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-962. Paperback original. Collects five stories, four published in UNKNOWN /UNKNOWN WORLDS pulp magazine. The fifth story by Isaac Asimov, "Author! Author!" was accepted by John W. Campbell for UNKNOWN but the magazine folded before it was published. This is the first publication. Other authors are Alfred Bester, Theodore Sturgeon, Cleve Cartmill and Jane Rice.
AND THE STARS REMAIN.
London: Printed in Great Britain and Published by Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Limited, [1952]. Octavo, cover by George Ratcliffe, pictorial wrappers. First edition. A Panther Book. Mankind's attempt to reach the stars is thwarted by the Planners, an ancient race of aliens who control the universe and prevent immature and/or evil races from contaminating others. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 86. Harbottle and Holland A4.
THE DEMOLISHED MAN.
[New York]: A Signet Book/The New American Libary, [1954]. Small octavo, cover art by Stanley Meltzoff, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Winner of the 1953 Hugo award for best novel and runner-up for the 1954 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-116. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 7. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 529-32.
STOWAWAY TO MARS.
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. Nova Science Fiction Novels No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
THE HOSPITAL HORROR..
New York: Popular Library, [1973]. Small octavo, cover by Gray Morrow, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Libary 445-01593. Paperback original. A volume in the nine volume Frankenstein Horror Series.
THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN.
New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, [1984]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. "...the first volume of what may be called the Digging Leviathan world, is set in a modern Los Angeles, beneath which is a giant Underground sea (it may be the first Los Angeles novel to feature one, though it is certainly not the last), and some of whose inhabitants hope to penetrate the centre of the Hollow Earth, which serves as the primary venue for Zeuglodon (2012), where the entire inner reality may be the Invention of a man asleep, who may be a Secret Master, or who may not." - SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-133. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 7-37. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-33. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 86.
FRONTIERS IN SPACE: SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION STORIES...
New York: Bantam Books, [1955]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Bantam Books 1328. A best of the best, selections from THE BEST SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES 1951, 1952, 1953. Collects fourteen stories.
IMAGINATION UNLIMITED.
[New York]: Berkley Publishing Corp. [1959]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Berkley Books G233. Collects seven of the thirteen stories that appeared in the hardcover edition. Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Julian May, L. Sprague De Camp, Peter Phillips, John Berryman, and Frank Robinson.
ATOMS AND EVIL.
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal Books/Fawcett Publications Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal s1231. Paperback original. Collects thirteen stories. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-26.
FIREBUG.
London: Corgi, 1977. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First British edition.
THE KIDNAPER.
New York: Lion Books, Inc., [1954]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Lion Books #185. Paperback original. "...one of the author's own favorites among his work, is THE KIDNAPPER, another first person narrative of a psychopath, cold, clinical, and unsparingly honest in treatment." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 82-84.