Non-Fiction
SEE NO EVIL: THE TRUE STORY OF A GROUND SOLDIER IN THE CIA'S WAR ON TERRORISM.
New York: Crown Publishers, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Career CIA field officer's memoirs. Basis for the George Clooney film Syriana.
J. G. BALLARD: THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS.
[Hayes, Middlesex]: Bran's Head Books Ltd., [1976.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Interview with Ballard, bibliography (through 1975) and critical articles and reviews. Contributors include Brian Aldiss, Michael Moorcock, Ian Watson, David Pringle and others.
ONCE AROUND THE BLOCH: AN UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
New York: Tor, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Bloch on the front free endpaper to a mystery publisher and bookseller.
THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, Publisher, [1977]. First edition. A survey of typography in America from the earliest days. Also covers great private and special presses. Sections are The Colonial Period, The Nineteenth and Into the Twentieth Century, The Renaissance of American Printing, The Twentieth Century. With 70 plates.
BLACK HAWK DOWN: A STORY OF MODERN WAR.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, [1999]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The story of U.S. Special Forces in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. Made into a successful film in 2001 directed by Ridley Scott.
ABC FOR BOOK-COLLECTORS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Octavo, cloth. Later printing of the third edition, revised. Useful reference to book collecting with guide to abbreviations used in the trade and definitions of terminology with over 450 entries concerning book collecting and bibliography.
THE CHESS COMPANION: A MERRY COLLECTION OF TALES OF CHESS AND ITS PLAYERS...
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1968]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Collection of fiction and non-fiction about chess and its players.
NEVER A DULL MOMENT.
New York: Hastings House, [1944]. Octavo, original blue cloth, front ruled in blind, spine stamped in red and gold. First edition. Autobiography of the author. Coe wrote in many different genres, some for the pulps and then breaking into the Saturday Evening Post. Contributing true crime stories which got little traction he decided to write fictional crime novels, his first being ME, GANGSTER. He wrote a number of crime fiction stories, boxing articles, associated with many celebrities, and also did work in Hollywood.
ANCIENT RUINS AND ARCHAEOLOGY.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Octavo, Hardcover. Later printing. Non-fiction.
V-2 ... Translated by James Cleugh and Geoffrey Halliday. Introduction by Willy Ley.
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-xviii [1-2] 3-281 [282-286: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], illustrations from photographs on plate paper, one map in text, original green cloth stamped in silver and blind, top edge stained red. First edition in English. A translation of V2 -- DER SCHUSS INS WELTALL ... (1952). "The story of the Peenemünde research institute and the development of the V-2" (Ley). "Popularly written history of the V-2; very few technical details but absorbingly interesting as an overall picture of the technical and political problems faced" (Humphries). Ciancone 60c. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 15. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, pp. 491, 506.
THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi [1] 2-274 [275-280: ads], sixteen inserted plates (reproducing portraits of various authors), original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. A series of literary essays based on some of Doyle's favorite books, with reminiscences of his buying them in his impecunious student days, when buying a book meant skipping a lunch. Green and Gibson B7a.
THE HARLAN ELLISON HORNBOOK.
New York: Penzler Books, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Over fifty previously uncollected essays, several revised for this book, one published here for the first time.
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS IN THE PROCRUSTEAN BED: ESSAYS BY HARLAN ELLISON.
San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1984. Octavo, boards. First edition. Of 250 copies this is one of 224 numbered & signed by Ellison & the editor, Marty Clark. Collects twenty essays, some focusing on SF and SF writers.
THE SPORT OF QUEENS.
New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1969]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. Signed label by Francis affixed to the half title page. Autobiography of Francis focusing on his horse racing career.
HUMAN WORK.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-4] 5-389 [390: blank], original vertically ribbed brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first binding with "McCLURE / PHILLIPS / & Co" on spine. Gilman considered this "study of the economic processes of Society" to be her most important work.
THE NEW CRUSADE: INCLUDING A REPORT CONCERNING PROHIBITION AND FIFTEEN CENTURIES OF LIQUOR LEGISLATION.
Cleveland, OH: The Crusaders Inc., 1932. Octavo, original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in red and black. First edition. A call to young men to participate in "The New Crusade" against bootleggers, gangsters and other public enemies which threaten society. The Crusaders, founded by Fred G. Clark, were a temperance movement devoted to the repeal of the 18th Amendment. After prohibition the organization remained active in politics of the day, Clark later founded the American Ecomonic Foundation.
THE NECRONOMICON FILES: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LEGEND.
[Mountain View, CA]: Night Shade Books, [1998]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Investigation of the history of the Necronomicon.
WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL: PAGES OUT OF THE EAST.
New York & London: The Century Co., [1924]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Travelogue of the author's visits to Asian countries.
THE UNCOLLECTED WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON. VOLUME ONE: NON-FICTION. Edited and with an introduction by Sam Gafford.
[Bristol, Rhode Island: Hobgoblin Press, 1995.]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Reprints from periodicals and other sources a miscellany of essays, articles, reviews and letters. With an introduction by the editor.
REPORT ON A WRITING MAN AND OTHER REMINISCENCES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD...edited by Rusty Burke.
[West Warwick, Rhode Island]: Necronomicon Press, [1991]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. First edition. Introduction by Novalyne Price Ellis. Collection of writings by Smith about his friend Robert E. Howard. Includes photographs.
REIGN OF FEAR: FICTION AND FILM OF STEPHEN KING.
Los Angeles, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1988. Octavo, First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Herron and sixteen contributors including Frank Belknap Long, Thomas M. Disch, Thomas Tessier, L. Sprague de Camp, Dennis Etchison, Charles Willeford, and others. Collects nineteen introductions, articles and essays.
REIGN OF FEAR: FICTION AND FILM OF STEPHEN KING.
Los Angeles, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1988. Octavo, First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Herron and sixteen contributors including Frank Belknap Long, Thomas M. Disch, Thomas Tessier, L. Sprague de Camp, Dennis Etchison, Charles Willeford, and others. This is copy number one. Collects nineteen introductions, articles and essays.
STEPHEN KING GOES TO HOLLYWOOD.
New York and Scarborough, Ont. A Plume Book / New American Library, [1987]. Octavo, printed wrappers. First paperback edition. Signed on the title page by Tim Underwood.
FEAST OF FEAR: CONVERSATIONS WITH STEPHEN KING.
San Rafael, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies of which this is one of 550 numbered copies. Collects forty-seven interviews with King. A companion volume to BARE BONES (1988).
FEAST OF FEAR: CONVERSATIONS WITH STEPHEN KING.
San Rafael, CA, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies of which this is one of 550 numbered copies. Collects forty-seven interviews with King. A companion volume to BARE BONES (1988).