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Boston: Little, Brown, 1976. First edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket showing some shelf wear, small chips to upper corners, some soiling. (7618). Octavo, Hardcover. End of civilization cataclysm science fiction novel. This novel is based on the theories of Hugh Auchincloss Brown (HAB) which postulated that the earth has gone through a series of global cataclysms.

Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1951. Small chips to left corners, wear along top edge, a good to very good copy with clean contents. (27309). Octavo, single issue, cover by Milton Luros, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Reaching for the Moon" by S[alvatore]. A[lberto]. Lombino, who would change his name to Evan Hunter and become well known using his pseudonym "Ed McBain" - this is his first published story. Other authors in this issue, George O. Smith, Stephen Marlowe, Lester Del Rey and other. SFQ is also notable as it became the last published SF pulp magazine, the last issue in 1958. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 545-550.

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1960-61. A nearly fine to fine set. (24253). Small octavo, three issues, all published, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Pocket Books capitalized on publishing the McBain novels by entering the digest magazine world. Managing Editor Robert Goodney sought ought well known mystery writers and invited them to submit stories with their famous characters. Authors included McBain, Richard Prather (Shell Scott), Ross MacDonald (Lew Archer), Henry Kane (Peter Chambers), Fredric Brown (Ed and Am Hunter), Robert Bloch, Bruno Fischer, Hampton Stone, Lawrence Block and others. First rate material but did not get beyond the three issue. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 211-213.

London: Jonathan Cape, [1926]. First edition. Front panel of dust jacket affixed to front paste down, front flap laid in, corner tips bruised with small tear to lower right front corner tip, spine ends worn with loss to upper spine, top page edges soiled with top stain faded, a good to very good copy with clean contents. (28749). Octavo, pp. [1-10] 15-256 [257-260: blank] [Note: text complete despite gap in pagination], illustrated by Keith Henderson, original black cloth, front and spine stamped in gold, publisher's device stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained blue. Adventure novel based on Norse saga with Styrbiorn son of the Swedish King Olaf.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1941. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of edge wear and mild toning to the spine panel. (28874). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 998 numbered copies. A prequel to MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES (1935). The second book of the unfinished Zimiamvian trilogy. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-126. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 320. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, pp. 2206-13. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 86-7.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1941. First edition. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to upper edge, mainly the spine and rear panel and a tiny closed tear to lower front panel, spine panel is very slightly age darkened. (16585). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 998 numbered copies. A prequel to MISTRESS OF MISTRESSES (1935). The second book of the unfinished Zimiamvian trilogy. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-126. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 320. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, pp. 2206-13. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 86-7.

London: Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd, n.d., [c. 1946-1947]. The first issue is very good with some light wear, creasing and small split at the head of the spine, the second issue is a good copy with rubbing, creasing and light edge wear. The first issue is uncommon, the second more so. (31567). Large octavo, two issues, pictorial wrappers. Magazine size. The only two issues of this British SF magazine, the first venture by Hamiltion into the field. Most of the fiction is by N. Wesley Firth. The first issue has three stories, the second is one compete story. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 620-21.

London: Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d., [1946]. Text paper tanned, mild edge rubs and wear, a nearly fine copy of this fragile magazine. (31564). Small octavo, single issue, cover by H.W. Perl, pictorial wrappers, stapled. This the variant cover by Perl. The first of two issues published. Most of the stories were reprinted from WEIRD TALES. Fiction by Jack Williamson, Robert Bloch (as "Tarleton Fiske"), Clark Ashton Smith, Ray Bradbury and others. This was allegedly Bradbury's first U.K. magazine appearance. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Volume 1, p. 3. Parnell, Monthly Terrors, p. 202. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 625-26. Tuck (1982), p. 596.

London: Utopian Publications Ltd., n.d., [1946]. Text paper tanned, 25 cent ink stamp over U.K. price, a fine copy. (31565). Small octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Alva Rogers, pictorial wrappers, stapled. The second of two issues published. Most of the stories were reprinted from WEIRD TALES. Fiction by John Beynon Harris, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch (two tales, one as Bloch, the other as "Tarleton Fiske"), H. P. Lovecraft ("Cool Air") and others. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Volume 1, p. 3. Parnell, Monthly Terrors, p. 202. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 625-26. Tuck (1982), p. 596.

Chicago, (later) Evanston, IL: Bell Publications, (later) Palmer Publications, 1953-1955. Foxing to spines of a number of issues, mild wear, a very good set overall. (31574). Small octavo, ten issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Authors include Murray Leinster, Robert Bloch, William Campbell Gault, Isaac Asimov, Edward E. Smith, Frank Robinson, Evan Hunter, Donald Westlake, Zenna Henderson, Margaret St. Clair and others. The first issue has the "The World Well Lost" by Theodore Sturgeon, a controversial story at the time. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 692-694.

New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. First U. S. edition. A very good copy, some rubbing to edges, covers, some spotting. (9713). Octavo, cloth. Story collection with some of the author's best horror fiction. Bleiler: The Guide to Supernatural Fiction #142. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17.

London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d., [1923]. First edition. A few light edge rubs, spine a little darkened, a very nice near fine copy. Uncommon in superior condition. (13908). Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii [iv-vi] 7-288 + 40-page publisher's catalogue "for the Autumn, 1923" inserted at rear, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. Collection of short horror fiction; twelve stories including "The Horror Horn" and the vampire story "Mrs. Amworth." "Probably Benson's most famous collection." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 142. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 31-2. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 31. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-17. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 21. Reginald 01137.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1890. First U.S. edition. Some light edge rubbing, a near fine copy. (13732). Small octavo, pp. [3-9] 10-302 [note: pages 1-2 excised by binder as issued; pagination commences with title leaf], original three-quarter maroon cloth and floral patterned white boards, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g. This collection was first published as a continental edition in 1874 in Leipzig by Tauchnitz and never published in England. The Stokes edition appears to have been printed from the plates of the Tauchnitz edition. A collection of seven stories by "a master of the Victorian ghost story" (Bleiler) including the title story (one of her most famous), "Salome" ("Edwards's finest story ... unusual among Victorian ghost tales in its pathos." [Bleiler]), and "In the Confessional." Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-24. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 603. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror,… Read More

Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (11408). Octavo, cloth. Limited to 500 copies. Omnibus volume collecting sixteen stories, all of Amelia B. Edwards's supernatural fiction, plus three associational items including her autobiograpical essay "My Home Life.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1989]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28680). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The second Budayeen novel. Sequel to WHEN GRAVITY FAILS (1987). See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-363.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, [1991]. First limited edition. Spine a little sunned, otherwise fine and unread. (28678). Octavo, frontispiece by Bob Eggleton, full leather, a.e.g. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by Effinger. The third Budayeen novel. Sequel to WHEN GRAVITY FAILS (1987) and A FIRE IN THE SUN (1989). Introduction by James Gunn. Part of the Easton press signed first edition series. See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-363.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to front panel. (15560). Octavo, boards. Story collection.

New York: Arbor House, [1987]. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. (4408). Octavo, boards. 1988 Hugo nominee for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-154.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. First edition. Remainder spray to bottom of page edges, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to corner tips and spine ends. (26597). Octavo, boards. Humorous time travel novel.

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, [1991]. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28679). Octavo, cloth backed boards. The third Budayeen novel. Sequel to WHEN GRAVITY FAILS (1987) and A FIRE IN THE SUN (1989). See Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-363.