Story Collection (single author)
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. Item #11395
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. Item #11409
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. Item #22220
SUB ROSA: STRANGE TALES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64. Item #8902
SUB ROSA: STRANGE TALES.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Eight threatening, mysterious, subtle stories..." Barron (ed.): Horror Literature 4-8. Jones & Newman: Horror: 100 Best Books #64. Item #22221
AMONG THE LOST PEOPLE.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-292 [293-294: blank] [note: final leaf is a blank], original dark blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, top edge stained light blue, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition, first issue. 1960 copies printed. Aiken's third collection of short fiction. Twelve stories, including "Mr. Arcularis" and "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," two of his best and most famous horror tales. "Bow Down, Isaac" is, according to a laid-in newspaper review, "an oblique study of religious insanity in New England ..." Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 2. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, pp. 2386-87. Bonnell A27. Item #20292
NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES...
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. [1974]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Aiken to a mystery book publisher and book seller on the title page. Two brief notes signed by the author laid in. A collection of stories which appeared in previous collections of the author's work. No equivalent U.K.edition of this book. Item #12825
A TOUCH OF CHILL: STORIES OF HORROR, SUSPENSE & FANTASY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collection of fifteen stories of horror, mainly aimed at young readers. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-11. Item #12823
A TOUCH OF CHILL: TALES FOR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
New York: Delacorte Press, [1980]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. This copy inscribed to a mystery book publisher and book seller on the title page. Publisher's review slip laid in. Collection of fifteen stories. The contents of this book differ from the U.K. title of the same name, (nearly half the stories differ). Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 6-11. Item #12824
THE WINDSCREEN WEEPERS AND OTHER TALES OF HORROR SUSPENSE AND FANTASY.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed presentation copy. Collection of adult fiction by this noted writer. An uncommon title. Item #343
A BRIAN ALDISS OMNIBUS.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, [1969]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects "The Interpreter," "The Primal Urge," "The Saliva Tree," "The Impossible Star," "Basis For Negotiation," and "Man in His Time." PRIMAL URGE (1961) shows the "effects of a device that allows everyone to know the sexual desires of people vis-a-vis each other." - Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 276. Item #15394
THE BRIGHTFOUNT DIARIES.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, [1955]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. Item #15393
SPACE, TIME AND NATHANIEL.
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF book, a collection of fourteen short stories. Includes "The Shubshub Race," a satire set partly on Upotia, a destination planet for wealthy individuals. "Fourteen lyrical stories, comprising its author's first collection. Notable entries are 'Outside' (1955), 'Psyclops' (1956) and 'The Failed Men' (1957)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 338. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 264. Item #14012
SPACE, TIME AND NATHANIEL.
London: Faber and Faber, [1957]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first SF book, a collection of fourteen short stories. Includes "The Shubshub Race," a satire set partly on Upotia, a destination planet for wealthy individuals. "Fourteen lyrical stories, comprising its author's first collection. Notable entries are 'Outside' (1955), 'Psyclops' (1956) and 'The Failed Men' (1957)." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 338. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 264. Item #15392
AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE: EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS COLONEL CLAY.
London: Grant Richards, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-317 [318: blank] [319-320: ads], illustrations by Gordon Browne, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. "The first great rogue of mystery fiction," Colonel Clay, "preceded ... Raffles by two years ..." - Queen's Quorum 21. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 4. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 11. Item #13539
CARNY KILL.
Greenwich, CT: [Fawcett Publications, Inc. 1966]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #d1611. Paperback original. Harboiled mystery novel. Item #12192
WAITING FOR ORDERS: THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF ERIC AMBLER.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1991. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 1/26 lettered copies signed by the author. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. The 26 copy lettered edition is the only signed limited of this title. Ambler would not sign a numbered edition. Introduction by Ambler. Includes eight stories, six feature Dr. Czissar, a refugee Czech detective written during World War II. Item #8535
AGENT OF THE TERRAN EMPIRE.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects four Dominic Flandry stories, "Tiger by the Tail," "Warriors from Nowhere," "Honorable Enemies," and "Hunters of the Sky Cave" (a.k.a. "A Handful of Stars" and, in book form, WE CLAIM THERE STARS!). Item #14746
FLANDRY OF TERRA.
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Books, [1965]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects three Dominic Flandry stories, "The Game of Glory" and "A Message in Secret," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as MAYDAY ORBIT, and "The Plague of Masters," published in 1961 as part of an Ace double as EARTHMAN, GO HOME! Item #14747
HARVEST OF STARS.
New York: Tor, 1993. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Item #7206
THE HORN OF TIME.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1978. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Story collection. Item #14750
HUMOUR & FANTASY.
London: John Murray, [1931]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects the following titles in one volume: Vice Versa, The Tinted Venus, A Fallen Idol, The Talking Horse, Salted Almonds and The Brass Bottle. In these collected volumes, some of which are story collections, there are stories of fantasy and horror, The Tinted Venus concerns a Greek statue that comes to life. Item #11900
THE TALKING HORSE.
New York: United States Book Company, 1891. Octavo, cloth. First edition (apparent first edition per copyright page date). Copyright page dates this as 1891 which would precede the English first edition of 1892. Story collection, some with supernatural content. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, #28. Item #8741
COGS TYRANNIC.
[London]: Metheun, [1991]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four novellas: "Slow Journey, Swift Writing," "The Little Old Woman and Her Two Big Books," "Uses of Iron," and "'Like the Dream of a Gun ...'" Item #13691
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1924. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Story collection with some supernatural content. Item #8781