Anthology
THE MYSTERY AND DETECTION ANNUAL 1972.
Beverly Hills, CA: Donald K. Adams, 1972. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe. Also includes the first publication of selected passages from Dashiell Hammett's unpublished story, "The Thin Man" (different from his later novel).
HUNGER FOR HORROR.
New York: DAW Books, Inc., [1988]. Small octavo, cover by J. K. Potter, pictorial wrappers. First edition. DAW 739. Paperback original. Collects fifteen stories. Author's include Robert Bloch, H. P. Lovecraft, Anthony Boucher, Philip K. Dick and others.
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.
NEBULA AWARD STORIES TWO.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects eleven stories by Richard McKenna, Bob Shaw, R. A. Lafferty, Jack Vance, Frederik Pohl, Philip K. Dick, and others. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1364.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION.
London, Melboune, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Hutchinson, [1981]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Selection of seventeen stories from the period 1940-1962. Authors include Frederik Pohl, Brian Aldiss, James Blish, Kurt Vonnegut, J. G. Ballard, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Jerome Bixby and others.
THRILLERS: STARTLING TALES BY WELLS, DOYLE, ROHMER, ROBERTS AND OTHERS.
New York: Edward J. Clode, Inc., 1929. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 9-313 [314-316: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Collects seventeen stories by Charles G. D. Roberts, Guy Boothby, H. G. Wells, Sax Rohmer, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Louis Becke, and others.
BEYOND.
[New York]: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, [1963]. Small octavo, cover painting by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion F712. Paperback original. Collection of nine stories from Beyond magazine. Authors include Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Theodore Sturgeon, Algis Budrys and others.
GHOST STORIES AND OTHER QUEER TALES.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., n.d., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-256, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange. First collected edition. An omnibus volume combining UNCANNY STORIES (1916) and MORE UNCANNY STORIES (1918), which in turn were selected from PEARSON'S NOVEL MAGAZINE. Includes two early stories by noted mystery writer Roy Vickers; also a death premonition story by Theo. Douglas (Mrs. H. D. Everett). Routine commercial work of World War I-era. On the plus side, it should be noted that these are stories seldom encountered elsewhere. "Mostly crude horror." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 690. Bleiler (1978), p. 7. Reginald 05932.
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SOMETIME, NEVER: THREE TALES OF IMAGINATION by William Golding, John Wyndham [and] Mervyn Peake.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First U.S. edition. Ballantine Books 215. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding (science fiction set in the ancient world), "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham (feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future), and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake (a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan). Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY (1958). According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-78. Reginald 13447.
THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND THRILLS: ALL-STAR STORIES OF MYSTERY, CRIME AND ROMANCE.
London: Allied Newspapers Ltd., n.d., [193-]. Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. 1023-page anthology with fifty stories by Ruby M. Ayres, Cameron Blake, Victor Bridges. John Buchan, Reginald Campbell, Leslie Charteris, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, and others. Contento and Greenberg, Index to Crime and Mystery Anthologies, pp. 547-48.
MY BEST MYSTERY STORY: A COLLECTION OF STORIES CHOSEN BY THEIR OWN AUTHORS.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, [1939]. Octavo, original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. 550-page anthology with nineteen stories by Peter Cheyney, Agatha Christie, Freeman Will Crofts, Philip MacDonald, Ellery Queen, John Rhode, E. C. Vivian, and others. Follow up volume to MY BEST DETECTIVE STORY.
SPACE ODYSSEY.
[London];: Octopus Books Limited, [1983]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 349-page "instant remainder" anthology reprinting twenty-five stories, some of them classics, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Roger Zelazny, John W. Campbell, Fritz Leiber, H. G. Wells, J. G. Ballard and many others. Reginald 16614.
NEW TALES OF HORROR BY EMINENT AUTHORS ...
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-15] 16-255 [256] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and free endpaper], true endpapers at rear, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Partially original anthology anonymously edited by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (a.k.a. "John Gawsworth"), collecting thirty crime and supernatural stories, seventeen of which appear here for the first time, by Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, E. H. Visiak, M. P. Shiel, John Gawsworth, Frederick Carter, Hugh MacDiarmid, Nugent Barker, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1230. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 2. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 10639.
NEW TALES OF HORROR BY EMINENT AUTHORS ...
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., n.d., [1934]. Octavo, pp. [1-15] 16-255 [256] [note: first two leaves are blanks used as front paste-down and free endpaper], true endpapers at rear, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Partially original anthology anonymously edited by Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (a.k.a. "John Gawsworth"), collecting thirty crime and supernatural stories, seventeen of which appear here for the first time, by Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, E. H. Visiak, M. P. Shiel, John Gawsworth, Frederick Carter, Hugh MacDiarmid, Nugent Barker, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1230. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 2. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 10639.