Paperback
CONANT.
New York: Popular Publications, [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library #G538. Paperback original. Crime novel.
CONANT.
New York: Popular Publications, [1961]. Small octavo, cover by Barye Phillips, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Popular Library #G538. Paperback original. Crime novel. Hubin, p. 120.
THE COOL MAN.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal d1890. Paperback original. Crime novel.
THE COOL MAN.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1968]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal d1890. Paperback original. Crime novel. Hubin, p. 120.
ROUND THE CLOCK AT VOLARI'S.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #s1145. Paperback original. Crime novel.
ROUND THE CLOCK AT VOLARI'S.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1961]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #s1145. Paperback original. Crime novel. Hubin, p. 120.
BEYOND THE FARTHEST STAR.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, cover by Frank Frazetta, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ace F-282. Contains "Beyond the Farthest Star" and "Tangor Returns", both first published in book form in TALES OF THREE PLANETS.
THE CAVE GIRL.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, cover by Roy Krenkel, pictorial wrappers. First Ace edition. Ace F-258.
THE LOST CONTINENT.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1963]. Small octavo, cover by Frank Frazetta, pictorial wrappers. First Ace edition. Ace F-235. Original published title is "Beyond Thirty."
THE MOON MAID.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, cover by Roy Krenkel, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ace F-157. This edition prints original magazine serial of the first part of THE MOON MAID.
THE MOON MEN.
New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1962]. Small octavo, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Ace F-159. This edition prints original magazine serials of the last parts of THE MOON MAID which were published as "The Moon Men" and "The Red Hawk."
TNT FOR TWO bound with COUNTERFEIT CORPSE .
New York: Ace Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace double D-197. Paperback original. The Byron title is the author's only crime novel. Jaffery, S., Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles, pp. 46.
CAREER IN C MAJOR.
New York: Avon Book Company, [1947, i.e. 1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. New printing of Avon #141, some minor changes to cover art.
FAST ONE.
New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition thus. Avon #178. First Avon paperback edition, preceded in softcover by the Shaw Press digest edition. Classic hardboiled novel.
SEVEN [7] SLAYERS.
Hollywood, CA: Saint Enterprises Inc., [1946]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original, digest size format. Story collection, all from Black Mask magazine. Hubin, p. 125.
SEVEN SLAYERS.
Los Angeles: Blood & Guts Press, 1987. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. One thousand copies printed, this is one of 250 numbered and signed by the author of the introduction William F. Nolan. This is copy number 11. Story collection, all hard boiled, all first published in Black Mask magazine.
MIDSUMMER PASSION AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition of this collection. Probable first issue. Avon 177. Collects fifteen stories from the hardcover collection JACKPOT (1940) including the disturbing story "Blue Boy."
MIDSUMMER PASSION AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Avon Book Co., Inc., [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition of this collection. Probable later issue. Avon 177. Collects fourteen stories from the hardcover collection JACKPOT (1940) and one story from THE AMERICAN EARTH. This edition is a likely a later issue as it omits the disturbing story "Blue Boy" and replaces it with the benign "Molly Cotton-Tail."
WHITE FOR A SHROUD.
New York: Parsee Publications, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bleak House Mystery 22. Mystery novel. This looks to be the last Bleak House number.
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1970. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Fawcett # R2197. Paperback original. Suspense novel.
THE LAST MUTATION.
London: Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd., [1951]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Science Fiction Monthly No. 11. A mutant of the future upon his release from guarded colony attempts to replace human civilization with mutants. "Campbell's controversial tour de force, and a much sought after collector's item." - Harbottle and Holland. Harbottle and Holland A56.
AUTHENTIC SCIENCE FICTION HANDBOOK.
London: Hamilton, [1954]. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-31 [32: ad], pictorial wrappers. First edition. Digest sized booklet. Definitions of scientific terms "that have some relation to science fiction." The handbook is a revision and expansion of a feature first published in monthly instalments of Authentic Science Fiction. The ad on page [32] promotes Authentic Science Fiction. Classic 1950s rocket cover art.
BRAIN ULTIMATE.
London: Panther Books are Printed in Great Britain and Published by Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by John Richards, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Panther No. 86. A scientist dreams fighting the dictatorship of the planets using disembodied brains of murdered men. "The novel ends on a Stapledonian note, with the establishment of an interstellar gestalt. By turns scientific and mystical, it is one of Campbell's better efforts." - Harbottle and Holland. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 91. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 246. Reginald 02497. Harbottle and Holland A54.
THE FACE THAT MUST DIE.
[London]: A Star Book Published by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd, [1979]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Signed by Campbell. "A thoroughly chilling book ..." - Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-66. "Giving oneself over to Campbell's writing feels a bit like losing one's mind. Sounds are heightened, perceptions warped, and squalor becomes synonymous with horror. Reading his books, you begin to feel that your room needs to be scrubbed clean, that bugs are crawling over your skin, and that the city is driving you mad." - Grady Hendrix, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, p. 123. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-69.
NEW WRITINGS IN SF1 with NEW WRITINGS IN SF2 with NEW WRITINGS IN SF3.
New York, Toronto, London: Bantam Books, [196-1967]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. editions. Bantam F3245, F3379, F3380. The first three volumes of this important original anthology series. Published as paperbacks in the U.S. Authors include John Rankine, Brian Aldiss, Damien Broderick and two more in volume one; John Rackham, Colin Kapp, Joseph Green and five more in volume two and John Kingston, Keith Roberts, James Schmitz and five more in volume three. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1371.