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West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M. Grant, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Lost race adventure novel.

New York: Bantam Books, [1948]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Bantam 306. Mystery novel, one of two using the Padgett pseudonym.

New York: Pyramid Books, [1964]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pyramid R-1056. Collects five stories by Isaac Asimov, Kingley Amis, James H. Schmitz, J.T. McIntosh and F.L. Wallace.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1955]. Octavo, illustrations by P.A. Hutchison (jacket and title page), cloth. First edition. "A provocative book, especially in its portrait of adults who fail to discern the maturity of young people."...

Hollywood, CA: Anson Bond Publications Incorporated, 1947. Small octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. The final issue of this short lived magazine. This issue is notable for a novelization of "The Chase," a film noir based...

Novato, California, Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1990. Octavo, illustrated by Ned Dameron, cloth. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Vance. Collects five novellas, four of the five are early works from the 1950s...

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1930]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-xi [xii] 1-355 [356: printer's imprint], original dark blue cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Laid into this copy...

New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc., [1952]. Small octavo, cover by Barye Phillips, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Gold Medal #270. Signed by the author on the title page. A hard boiled novel.

New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Overlords of Maxus" by Jack Vance. Fredric Brown, Kendell Foster Crossen, Sam Merwin, Jr. writing as "Matt Lee," and others. [Reference...

Philadelphia: The Chamberlain Press, Inc., 1954. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed by Matheson on the title page. The author's first book, a collection of seventeen stories with introduction by Robert Bloch. "...the best of this...

New York: The Mysterious Press, [1986]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Ellroy on the half title page. "Like Thomas Harris, the starker Ellroy bridges the gap between crime and out-and-out horror."...

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1958]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Kenneth Fagg, cloth. Later, second printing. Sequel to SON OF THE STARS (1952) in which a conference of the Galactic Federation, meeting on...

Boston: Gregg Press, [1976]. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition. The first hardcover edition of the revised text. Photographically reproduced from a copy of the 1969 Sphere Books edition, the only complete text and the...

London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg: Century A Legend Book, [1992]. Octavo, "This special limited edition of two hundred / copies first published in Great Britain / on 13 February 1992 ..." on copyright page. First edition...

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes "The Pirates of Venus," part 2 of six by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Also fiction by...

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1975. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects all of Derleth's science fiction short stories, most first published in SF magazines during the 1950s. [Reference: Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 530].

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1919. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-8] 9-368, original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. First printing measuring 2.8 cm...

[New York]: Gnome Press, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Clarke on the front free endpaper. Expanded and rewritten as THE CITY AND THE STARS (1956). This earlier version utilizing the...

Chicago, IL: Western Fiction Publishing, Co., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Norman Saunders, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Authors include Eando Binder, Manly Wade Wellman, L. Sprague De Camp, Ed Earl Repp and Frederick Arnold...

London: Jonathan Cape, [1974]. Octavo, boards. First edition. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-15. King list, p. 389. Winter list, p. 268].

New York: A. L. Burt, Publisher, n.d., [1889?]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-219 [220: blank] [221-224: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated tan cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in black...

Saddle River, N.J. Edited and Published by Gerry de la Ree, 1979. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1300 numbered copies. Reproduces Finlay's illustrations for Weird Tales, 1935-1954. [Reference: Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 10-73...

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Kenneth Fagg, cloth. First edition. A desperate group of miners in the Asteroid Belt band together to fight the corrupt Asteroid Miners' Association...

London: T.V. Boardman, n.d. [1948]. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition. Author's first mystery. P.I. novel set in L.A.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover edition). First published in the U.S. as a paperback. Collects the title story and six others. "A thoughtful collection..." Anatomy of Wonder (1995)...

New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover art by Margaret Brundage. pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Includes stories by Frank Gruber, Robert Bloch, Seabury Quinn, Manly Wade Wellman writing as "Gans T. Field,"...

New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Son of the Tree" by Jack Vance. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction...

Kokomo, IN: Better Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Ed Emshwiller, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Philip Jose Farmer with "Moth and Rust," a sequel to "The Lovers." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley...

[Sauk City, Wisconsin]: Arkham House, 1981. Octavo, printed stiff wrappers. First edition. Inscribed presentation copy signed by Tierney to Dick (Richard) Fawcett, founder of the August Derleth Society, dated in the year of publication. P1030...

In 1939, a promising Midwestern mainstream novelist and a popular Midwestern writer of pulp fiction co-founded a small press to publish a hardbound book to preserve the writing and perpetuate the memory of their dearly...

London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1932]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-487 [488: printer's imprint], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. The fifth and final novel published during Lindsay's lifetime. Though boring...

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1937]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-3] 4-307 [308-312: ads] [313-314: blank], original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, yellow end papers, top edge stained black. First U. S. edition...

Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover by Robert Gibson Jones, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Richard S. Shaver, Rog Phillips, Chester S. Geier writing as "Guy Archette," and others. [Reference: Tymm...

New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover by Paul Stahr, pictorial wrappers. Pulp Magazine. Fiction by H. Bedford Jones ("The Mysterious John Solomon"), George F. Worts, T. S. Stribling, Fred...

Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-320, original red cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained green. First U. S. edition. A locked room mystery featuring Dr...

New York: Frederick Fell, [1966]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects seven stories by Robert Moore Williams, Jack Williamson, A. E. Van Vogt, Eando Binder, Randall Garrett, Oliver E. Saari and H. Beam Piper.