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MOSTLY HARMLESS.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1992]. Octavo, frontispiece by Frank Mayo, full leather, a.e.g. First limited edition. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Adams. Introduction by James Gunn. The fifth book in the Hitch Hiker series. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-3.
THE GREENWAY.
[London]: Macmillan, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel.
THE GIRL IN A SWING (Two copies).
[London]: Allen Lane, [1980]. Octavo, boards. First edition. First printing with "Allen Lane" on the title page and with the main female character named Käthe. After they are married a couple have haunting and supernatural experiences related to the wife's past. "... the story is sustained by a rich backdrop of art, culture, and religion in which hints of the couple's impending tragedy are continually glimpsed. A surprising mature horror tale from an author best known for his animal fantasy epics..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-2. - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-2. Filmed in 1988 with Meg Tilly.
WATERSHIP DOWN.
London: Rex Collins, 1972. Octavo, boards. First edition. Published 14 November 1972 in an edition of 2500 copies. Winner of the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4B-1. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 51. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 4. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, pp. 2079-83. Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 001.
BLACK MARIA.
New York: Pocket Books, Inc., [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Pocket 50059. Collects 92 drawings, over half from the New Yorker magazine.
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.
TIME MACHINES.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-two stories by Jack Finney, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Connie Willis, Rudyard Kipling and others.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2001.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2001. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Anthology of classic authors which all first appeared in British fiction magazines from the period of the early 1920s to 1939. Only one has appeared in book form.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2004: THE LAST 'QUEER STORIES FROM TRUTH.'
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2004. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 500 copies printed. Collection of stories culled from the weekly publication "The Truth."
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2005: HAVEN'T I READ THESE BEFORE.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2006. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 400 copies printed. Anthology of horror fiction.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1997.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects four supernatural tales by women writers from the early 20th century, Patricia Wentworth, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Carola Oman, and Mollie Panter Downes.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1997.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects four supernatural tales by women writers from the early 20th century, Patricia Wentworth, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Carola Oman, and Mollie Panter Downes.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1998.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects six weird stories, "Told in the Inn at Algeciras" by William Somerset Maugham (1905), "Post-Mortem" by Arthur Ransome (1906), "The Medium's End" by Ford Madox Ford (1912), "Exactly as it Happened" by E. C. Bentley (1926), "The Unpleasant Room" by Hilaire Belloc (1928) and "Ho! The Merry Masons" by John Buchan (1933), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1998.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects six weird stories, "Told in the Inn at Algeciras" by William Somerset Maugham (1905), "Post-Mortem" by Arthur Ransome (1906), "The Medium's End" by Ford Madox Ford (1912), "Exactly as it Happened" by E. C. Bentley (1926), "The Unpleasant Room" by Hilaire Belloc (1928) and "Ho! The Merry Masons" by John Buchan (1933), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1999.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects six weird stories, "The House That Was Lost" by Tom Gallon (1908), "Tight and Loose" by Neil Gow (1932), "The Man Who Was Tomorrow" by Eric Ambrose (1933), "Newsreel" by W. J. Makin (1935), "Time- Piece" by Donald Showbridge (1939) and "Last Act First" by Laurence Meynell (1940), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1999.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects six weird stories, "The House That Was Lost" by Tom Gallon (1908), "Tight and Loose" by Neil Gow (1932), "The Man Who Was Tomorrow" by Eric Ambrose (1933), "Newsreel" by W. J. Makin (1935), "Time- Piece" by Donald Showbridge (1939) and "Last Act First" by Laurence Meynell (1940), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 1999.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects six weird stories, "The House That Was Lost" by Tom Gallon (1908), "Tight and Loose" by Neil Gow (1932), "The Man Who Was Tomorrow" by Eric Ambrose (1933), "Newsreel" by W. J. Makin (1935), "Time- Piece" by Donald Showbridge (1939) and "Last Act First" by Laurence Meynell (1940), with introduction and notes by editor Jack Adrian.
THE ASH-TREE PRESS ANNUAL MACABRE 2000.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Collects nine stories by classic writers.
BOOK COLLECTING 2000.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2000]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition (first printing of this edition). New revised edition, previous editions published in 1989 and 1995. Estimated values for first printing of author's first books. 1,000 new entries added to this edition. Sections on Book Collecting, What to Collect, Sources for Books, Knowledgeable Buying, and more.
WE ARE FOR THE DARK: SIX GHOST STORIES.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1951]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's scarce first book. Collects three stories by Aickman and three by Howard with Aickman's collaboration including the classic "Three Miles Up." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 851. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-7.
THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1966. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's scarce third book, an autobiography of his early years preceded by We Are For the Dark, a short story collection in collaboration with Elizabeth Jane Howard, and The Late Breakfasters, his first novel.
COLD HAND IN MINE: EIGHT STRANGE STORIES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975. Octavo, boards. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Collects eight stories. "Aickman's tales are clearly situated in the classic tradition of supernatural horror and achieve a rich and textured atmosphere of dread through meticulous orchestration of their events to an unsettling crescendo." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-3. The story "Pages From A Young Girl's Journey" was a World Fantasy award winner. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-3. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-1. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 267.
DARK ENTRIES.
London: Collins, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's first solo collection of short fiction. Collects six stories. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-2.
DARK ENTRIES.
London: Collins, 1964. Octavo, boards. First edition. Aickman's first solo collection of short fiction. Collects six stories. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-2.