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 Also includes the first publication of selected passages from Dashiell Hammett's unpublished story, "The Thin Man" (different from his later novel).
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.
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.
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 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 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.
BACKGROUND TO DANGER.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Espionage thriller involving military secrets, Soviet agents, German agents and Rumanian oil. Filmed in 1943, directed by Raoul Walsh with George Raft, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Turhan Bey from a script by W.R. Burnett.
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.
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.
TERRIBLE TALES: SPANISH.
Paris, London, Chicago, New York, Washington: Brentano's, n.d., [1890]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-178 [179-180: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original gray cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges trimmed. First edition. The Brentano's edition was printed in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark and was probably issued simultaneously with the W. W. Gibbings edition published in London in 1890. Author of all these tales is Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1836-1870), known as "the Spanish Poe," the most famous nineteenth century Spanish writer of supernatural fiction, also very influential on Latin American fiction. This is one of only two English-language collections extant, the other being the Romantic Legends of Spain (Crowell 1909). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-3. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1585. Bleiler (1978), p. 37. Reginald 13946.
WEIRD TALES BY ENGLISH WRITERS.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., n.d., [18??]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] 3 [4-5] 6-256 frontispiece portrait of Defoe, illustrated title page printed in black and red, decorated limp green coth, front and spine stamped in red, t.e.g., fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Later edition. Collects twelve stories by Charles Dickens, Edmund Yates, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Smollett, and others. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-4. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1665-1669. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Reginald 14972-14976.
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.
CRIMES, CREEPS AND THRILLS: FORTY-FIVE NEW STORIES OF DETECTION, HORROR AND ADVENTURE BY EMINENT MODERN AUTHORS ...
London: E. H. Samuel, n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xv [xvi] 1-560, 30 full-page unattributed black and white illustrations in the text, original patterned brown cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Important 560-page partially original anthology collecting forty-five adventure, crime and supernatural stories by E. H. Visiak, Richard Middleton, M. P. Shiel, H. H. Ewers, Frederick Carter, Edgar Jepson, Nugent Barker, and others. Contents include the only appearance in print of Visiak's "The Shadow," a flawed novel "reworking on a symbolic level of concepts in Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship" [Bleiler (1983)]. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 452. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 9. Bleiler (1978), p. 80. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
CRIMES, CREEPS AND THRILLS: FORTY-FIVE NEW STORIES OF DETECTION, HORROR AND ADVENTURE BY EMINENT MODERN AUTHORS ...
London: E. H. Samuel, n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xv [xvi] 1-560, 30 full-page unattributed black and white illustrations in the text, original light blue cloth, front cover ruled in blind, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Important 560-page partially original anthology collecting forty-five adventure, crime and supernatural stories by E. H. Visiak, Richard Middleton, M. P. Shiel, H. H. Ewers, Frederick Carter, Edgar Jepson, Nugent Barker, and others. Contents include the only appearance in print of Visiak's "The Shadow," a flawed novel "reworking on a symbolic level of concepts in Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship" [Bleiler (1983)]. "Over and above their general high quality ... [Gawsworth's] large anthologies of horror and supernatural Fiction –- ranging from quality ghost stories to mediocre contes cruels –- are notable for the amount of original material they contain, much of this coming from authors of considerable interest, including Oswell Blakeston, Thomas Burke, Frederick Carter, Louis Golding, Edgar Jepson, Arthur Machen, Richard Middleton, Eimar O'Duffy, M. P. Shiel and E. H. Visiak –- as well as Gawsworth himself, none of whose short stories have been collected separately. His early stories, like ABOVE THE RIVER (1931) and 'Scylla and Charybdis' (1934) are wistful nature fantasies in the style of Algernon Blackwood, but his later 'collaborations' with Shiel, Visiak and particularly Jepson ('The Shifting Growth' 1936, included in this collection) are more sinister and portentous, shadowing death." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 392. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 452. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 9. Bleiler (1978), p. 80.
CRIMES, CREEPS AND THRILLS: FORTY-FIVE NEW STORIES OF DETECTION, HORROR AND ADVENTURE BY EMINENT MODERN AUTHORS ...
London: Eric Grant, n.d., [193-]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] xi-xv [xvi] 1-560, 30 full-page unattributed black and white illustrations in the text, original red cloth, spine stamped in gold. Second edition. Important 560-page partially original anthology collecting forty-five adventure, crime and supernatural stories by E. H. Visiak, Richard Middleton, M. P. Shiel, H. H. Ewers, Frederick Carter, Edgar Jepson, Nugent Barker, and others. Contents include the only appearance in print of Visiak's "The Shadow," a flawed novel "reworking on a symbolic level of concepts in Captain Marryat's The Phantom Ship" [Bleiler (1983)]. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 452. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 9. Bleiler (1978), p. 80. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
THRILLS: TWENTY SPECIALLY SELECTED NEW STORIES OF CRIME, MYSTERY AND HORROR ...
London: Associated Newspapers Ltd., n.d., [1936]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-ix [x] 11-320, twelve full-page illustrations by Norman Keene, original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in green. First edition. Partially original anthology collecting twenty crime and supernatural stories by Thomas Burke, John Gawsworth, Edgar Jepson, M. P. Shiel. L. A. G. Strong, E. H. Visiak, and others. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1599. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 392. Bleiler (1978), p. 8. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
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THE HUGO WINNERS: VOLUME 4 [1976-1979].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collects thirteen stories. Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman, Spider and Jean Robinson, Joan D. Vinge, Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Poul Anderson and C.J. Cherryh.
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THE HUGO WINNERS: VOLUME 4 [1976-1979].
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collect thirteen stories. Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, James Tiptree, Jr., Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman, Spider and Jean Robinson, Joan D. Vinge, Harlan Ellison, John Varley, Poul Anderson and C.J. Cherryh.